Thursday, Aujjrusti 24, 193- 9-
Prince George; B. C.
IB. C. Termed
Heed ot Revision
Associated Boards, of Trade Draft plans for Proper Settlement of Central B. C.
That the land- settlement policy, ,doDted by the provincial government; in central. B. C, is obsolete and j " neea of alteration if there is to be; any large scale settlement of this sec-1 tion of the province, -was the opinion expressed at the annual convention of! thfe Associated" Board? of- Trade of � Central B.C., in session last Friday | and Saturday at Prince George. Fol-j lowing a long period of discussion dur- j in" which the government's present i policy was branded as, "a thing of, shreds and' patches-;" the association; I drafted a resolution lor the submission to the government designed as a basis [or a new arid vigorous policy of land settlement.
The convention asked: . i__a generous, reduction of debts due to'the government on mortgages and purchases of land.
2�Defined areas for settlement and closed reserves oh all areas unsuitable for agriculture., . ,
3�Soil surveys of lands within such defined settlement areas.
4�Organized supervision of settlement areas by technical.advisers.
&�Provision of capital to assist settlers, arid- in. this respect, a more liberal policy on the part of the federal farm loan board.
&�Gvants'to settlers for new' acreage brought under cultivation.
7�Loan of machinery and equipment suitable for land clearing and cultivation.
a-iGovernment land settlement representatives to be in central B.C. with power>. and/:, authority to close transactions foriJre-emptton or purchase of government lands, and to sup-�piy accurate "Information, .as to price and terms of purchase of sucfti lands. Press For A^tJcn .:i . � ~~,...... -
A. committee composed "of the three members of the provincial legislature from Port CKsorge, Cariboo and Qmi-nec&i H. G. Perry, -Louis LeBourdais and Mark Connelly, were named to press the findings in the house at Victoria.
Introduced by the Vanderhoof Board of Trade, to be later revised, the resolution gave rise to a vigorous denunciation of past. government policy and lack of a comprehensive plan ior the future. George Ogston, of Vanderhoof, who sketched the history of land settlement in central British Columbia since interest was first stimulated in,. 1903, called the present policy a "thing" of shreds and patches." �
!1A11 through the country today can be seen abandoned buildings and clearings built between 1910 and 1914 during the era of land speculation. Sixty (Continued on paee five)
Horse Dies;
Rider Injured
Frank Haller, who lives near Clinton, B.C., was sent to the hospital at Prince George on Friday, the victim of an unusual accident that occurred on the' last lap of a horseback ride from Clinton to this city.
As Haller was approaching the Fraser River bridge at the outskirts of. town, his horse was seized, fell to the ground and died, pitching the rider on to e large stone -at the side of the road. Haller was picked up by E. MacEachern, government road foreman, and was treated by Dr. J. G. MacArthur at the hospital. He suffered concussion on the brain, and was unconscious for five days and his condition is still serious; '
-- Chamberlain
Europe Near Clash in Gravest risis Since 1914; Armies Massed;
are on War-Time Basis
SITUATION &JNCHMCSGED FOLLOWING SIGNING NON-AGGRESSION PACT
Plan Extensions Telephone Service Of This District
Plan Prince George-Vanderhoof Line; Reid Lake, Isle Pierre, Other Points Get Service .:_
Wide improvements in the Dominion government telephone service this year and next to include a direct link between Prince George and Vanderhoof and lines to Reid Lake, Isle Pierre, Salmon Valley and Summit Lake, is announced by J.'Gray Tur-geon M.P. in a wire to Prank Clark, president of Cariboo Federal.Liberal Association. Arrangements have oeen made to extend the Chief\ Lake telephone' line frojn Prince Oeorge, now completed, as far as Keid i^ake this year, \ ^^^
j "It is hoped that Isle Pierre, will be taken care of - to"-the construction of a Jine from Prince George to Vanderhoof planned, for next year," Mr. Tur-geon announced.
It is hoped that .the 1940 improve?-ment program will include Salmon .alley and Summit Lake, the^federal member/said. y^
Contract has already'/been let for
Chamberlain Takes Grave View "of Situation in Commons Speech
Europe moyeJ[_cpj^Kdl^v|vacttine"footing today as events in political capitals of the world precipitated the grayest crisis s-kcer J914. British solidarity in the' situation was underlined by Prime Minister NevilleCfiambeilain in an address to move an Emergency Powers Bill in the-House of Commons today. -Qpig,ijgijj&_msfilled to overflo wing to hear the prime minister's pronouncement. : I r. �<�� "Thg international situation has steadily deteriorated and today
thevvqrld isij^ imminent peril of war,"Mr. Chamberlain said. Britain is ready for war, morally and materially, and in spite of tr.js non-aggression pacrTbetweenT Russia and Germany, Britain >and France are ready to come to the aid of Poland. Polish leaders are firm in their determination to resist an attack on their^mtelgrity. "Despite our efforts to secure peace, and God knows I hat tried my best,, we find ourselves forced to^efnbark-on a struggle which is bound ,to be fraught with suffering for all mankind," Mr. Chamberlain said. "But we will not-merely be fighting for the independence- of a city in a far-awiy land, but for the principles that we hold." Some encouragement was taken from the prime minister's statement that '^tkere is still hope that reason and! sanity may^
yet i ind aJway to,, assectthemseiyes." ..... : ..,.,...,., ......... � '�}
Mr. Chamberlain spoke of the well-established, cordial relations that exisfbetween France and Great Britain, and the profound encouragement that has been taken from the support given by the yc6ionies of Great Britain through their prime ministersNHe saidi that British-French-Polish relations are unaffected by the (Russian perman pact, although he admitted that the secret agreement between Germany and the Soviet" which was concluded even while British and Russian diplomats were discussing a four-power" non-. aggression treaty, had come as a distinct surprise. He was loudly hd f h
PACT WITH GERMANS�RjlSslatn
leader Josef Stalin afficfLated at the signing , of a tei*=ip�a: Tioin-aggression pact withj^enruipy. c:rea.t-ing an unsurmountable banter tea amjr Soviet alliance with. Great 3�ltalnx axwfc Prance.
Deal Closed For Federal farm
construction of a line-to Reid Lake by! Experimental Station t�
the federal government, it has been '
reported.
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U. S. Army Planes
Land Here
American Flight Officer Speaks Well of Local Field
Date Set For Liberal Convention
Two of the largest aircraft ever-to land on the � p'r.ince George airfield here last Friday when I a pair of Douglas, U. rS.:.-Army. m-' motor bombers came to rest enroute to~ Fairbanks, Alaska, after a direct flight from Spokane,
uated at Pineview; F�jpr-Uots are Purchased
Order in . council, autliorlzlttg Uhc purchase of. four Pineview propercl&s for inclusion in a Domir�io�n government experimental station mealr Pritice Oeorge, has been passeci, Properties purchased are: lot- 1542, onm&-mEno