_ Abbotsford Sumas and Matsqui News

Nineteenth Year, No. 6

Abbotsford, B.C., Wednesday, February 5, 1941

Leaders of Junior Trade Boards of
Lower Mainland To Convene Here

GEROW

KIRK
Western Vice-President Canadian | President
Junior Board of Trade.

Junior Chamber of Commerce.

President of Surrey Junior Cham-

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ARTHUR BOURASSA |
ber of Commerce,

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Cc. L. NEVILL
of New Westminster

J. CAMPBELL McLEAN
President Vancouver Junior Board

f Trade.

Operating Surplus Shown
By M-S-A Educational Area

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS GRATIFIED
BY FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR YEAR 1940
DIRECTOR SHOWS COSTS BY SCHOOLS

Financial position of the Matsq

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Area improved considerably during 1940, members of the Advisory
Board heard at their regular meeting held on Friday night in the

Abb

of the Fi State-

offices, ‘d.

ment for the past year was the main business of the meeting and

the

when Director A. S. Towell

reported an operating surplus for 1940 of $744.12 and also that the
deficit had been reduced by a total of $4502.02.

COST PER SCHOOL

*
Ordinary expenditure on indivi-

dual schools were as follows, (fig-

_ ures in brackets being the num-
ber of teachers in each school):—
Sheffield High, (10), $21,419.58;
Matsqvi El. & Sup. (7), $14,547.26;
Abbotsford (8), $14,179.42; Upper
Sumas (9), $13,972.21; Mt. Lehman
Sup. (3), $5,231.72; North Poplar,
(3), 5,136.97; Huutingdon (2), $3,-
634.29; Bradner (2), $3,462.23; Aber-
deen (2), $3.30448; Peardonville
(2), $3,248.80; Mt. Lehman Ble-
mentary (1) $2,176.41 South Pop-
lar (1) $1,741.65; Jubilee (1), $1,-
562.15; Straiton (now closed),
$80.72; Kilgard (closed), $762.44,
PRAISE SYSTEM ~—

The auditors also expressed sat-
isfacion with the new bookkeep-
ing system which had been instal-
led at the beginning of 1840, re-
marking, “We are pleased ta re-
port that many improvements have
been made in your accounting and
recording methods, and believe
that your business methods are
now on a satisfactory basis. We
would like to say that we received
very able assistance from and
hearty co-operation of Mr. Towe})
in these matters, and are of the
opinion that the Area is very well

served in business and financial
matters.”

GRATIFIED

After studying the financial

Statement, members of the Advis-
ory Board expressed their gratifi-
cation at the improved position
and the success of the year’s op-
erations, ,

Dr. J. A. Taylor, Medical Health
Officer, reported that the ‘flu epi-
demic had died down, but stated
that some other infectious dis-
eases, especially measles and
mumps, were still active. He also
reported that an epidemic form of
jaundice of a peculiar and quite
unusual type was present in Su-

Dairy Appeal
Dismissed By
Appeal Court

With Chief Justice M. A. Mac-
donald dissenting, the British Col-
umbia court of appeal dismissed
the appeal of the Lower Mainland
Dairy Products Board against rul-
ing of Mr. Justice D, A. McDon-
ald that certain orders issued by
the board were ultra vires and
not binding on dairymen. Mr, Jus-
tice Gordon Sloan, and Mr. Jus-
tice C. H. O'Halloran upheld the
ruling.

The appeal was brought by the
board, the Milk Clearing House
Ltd, W. E. Williams and E. D.
Barrow. The dairy interests in-
cluded Turners’ Dairy Ltd. Jer-

ers’ Dairy Ltd., Hoy’s Crescent
Dairy Ltd., George A, Draken, W.
A. Hayward, J. Crowley, Avalon

Ltd., Twigg Island Dairy Ltd., and
Charles Hawthorne.

The board issued orders which
the dairymen alleged were for the

land areas.

ASSESSMENT ROLL
REVISION COURTS

The annual Courts of Revision
of the Assessment Roll take place
in each of the three municipal of-

Sey Farms Ltd., Guernsey Breed-

Dairy, Empress Dairies Ltd., Glen-
burn Dairies Ltd., Melrose Dairies

Purpose of illegally and improper-
ly providing for equalization of
returns to all the. farmerg produc-
ing milk for sale in Lower Main-

fices of the M-S-A Area on Satur-
day, Feb. 8, commencing at 10;00

Chinese May |
Buy Bradner
Bulb Farms

PIONEERS OF INDUSTRY,
CONFRONTED BY IMPOST,
WILL ABANDON EFFORT

Bulb gardens which have been
established through years of effort
in the logged-off lands of the
Bradner district will be abandon-
ed and probably sold to Oriental
interests, THENEWS is informed by
Fenwick Fatkin, president of the
Bradner Bulb Growers’ Associa-
tion. Negotiations with a Chinese
syndicate said to have long been
anxious to acquire the properties,
may be opened today, Mr. Fatkin
states.

The growers, who have held be-
fore them as their only encour-
agement through years of tre-
mendous toi] and hardship, a vi-
sion of establishing an agricultur-
al industry of national importance,
have now no other recourse but to
quit, Mr. Fatkin states. Tax audi-
tors of the Excise Department
swooped on the little homes and
greenhouses of the growers last
week, as THENEWS revealed in its
last issue, examined -the books and
records and assessed the eight per
cent sales tax being levied on the
pitiful gross incomes of these
farmers.

FORCED TO SELL

Mr. Fatkin, father of the indus-
try and probably the first nurs-
eryman to appreciate the suitab-
ility of the soil and climatic condi-
tions of the district to bulb and
cut-flower growing, states he has
practically agreed to sell his farm
to a Chinese syndicate and at least
five more of the two dozen or so
growers have also already decided
to do likewise. This action, he
Says, follows realization that the
Excise Department at Ottawa is
determined to follow its present
course of action and that the
growers are daily penalized for
their failure to pay the tax and
buy the necessary licenses impos-
ed on them.

“We have fought against this
alternative (selling to the Orient-
als) as long as humanly possible,”
Mr. FatKin declared, describing
the years of toil he and others
have put in to win the soil from
the huge stumps left behind by
the otherwise forgotten logging in-
dustry of the Fraser Valley. The
situation is the more pitiful, he
Said, because now, due to wartime
conditions preventing bulb imports,
the growers saw realization of
their dreams as a real possibility
within the next few years.
EXCISE AUDITORS

Excise’ Auditors Thorburn and
Gardner from Vancouver com-
menced their tax survey on Wed-
nesday, They were interviewed at
the roadside in Bradner by Leon-
ard Zink, secretary of Abbotsford
& District Board of Trade, and
Lang. Sands of THENEWS, but de-
clined to talk. Their survey has
occupied several days and has
been very thorough as the audi-

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MOTORIST DRIVES INTO
DITCH ATTEMPTING TO
AVOID HITTING CHINESE

A Vancouver man, John Edward
Schuberg, 3756 Heather street,
wrecked his car and narrowly es-
caped serious injury in a vain at-
tempt to avoid hitting a Chinese,
Wong Foo, 64, on Highway No. 1,
Friday evening. The accident oc-
curred in a driving rain about 5:40
p.m. opposite the John Olson farm
where Foo is employed. According
to the report made to Constable
H. Butler of the Highway Patrol,
Abbotsford, the Chinese apparent-
ly was watching the approach of
a car from the east as he attempt-
ed to cross the highway and did
not see Schuberg approaching
from the west. The latter did not
see Foo until almost up to the
man because of the rain but made
a sharp swing and careened into
the deep ditch flanking the high-
way at that point. Wong Foo ap-
parently attempted to double-back
and was struck by the left rear
of the car. Foo was taken to the
M-S-A Hospital at Abbotsford by
the other motorist, M. Nascho,

2886 West 26th avenue, Vancouver,
where it was reported the Chinese
had sustained a lacerated head and
possible fracture of the right arm.

(Continued on Page Bight)

in the morning.

Schuberg’s car was badly damaged.

GUEST SPEAKER

HON. H. H. STEVENS

who will address the quarterly
conference of Lower Mainland
Junior Boards of Trade to be held
in Abbotsford on Tuesday, Feb. 11,
at 7 p.m. Hon, Mr. Stevens will
speak on the Rowell-Sirois Report
study of which is engaging the
members of Junior Boards of
Trade throughout Canada.

Conference Of
Junior Boards
Here Tuesday

DINNER MEETING TO
BE ATTENDED BY 60
OFFICERS, DELEGATES

Sixty members of eight Junior
Boards of Trade are expected to
attend a quarterly conference to
be held in Abbotsford on Tuesday
evening, Feb. 11, Grant Duckworth
of Langley Prairie, chairman of
the Lower Mainland District of
the B.C, Division of the Canadian
Junior Chamber of Commerce, will
preside. Kirk Gerow of New West-
minster, western vice-president of
the Canadian Junior Chamber,
also attend, Hon. H. H. Stevens
of Vancouver has accepted an in-
vitation to be the guest speaker
and his topic will be the Rowell-
Sirois Report which has been a
study subject of the Junior boards
during the winter.
CONVENIENT CENTRE

The conference will be held in
the Trinity United church hall and
will be preceded by a dinner for
which the Trinity Ladies’ Aid is
catering. Junior Boards and Jun-
jor Chambers of Commerce which
will be represented by their prin-
cipal officers and other delegates
include: Vancouver, North Van-
couver, New Westminster, Surrey,
Maple Ridge, Langley, Agassiz and
Chilliwack. While the M-S-A Area
is almost alone in the Fraser Val-
ley now in being without a Jun-
ior Board of Trade, the quarterly
meeting of the Junior Boards is
being held in Abbotsford as a cen-
tre conveniently located to the
member organizations. Usually the
conferences are held alternately in
Junior Board centres. Abbotsford
rict Board of Trade will be
ly represented by President
H. S. Andrews and Lang. Sands
and possibly by several other mem-
bers if the limited ticket sale per-
mits.

ACTIVITIES

In addition to the address by
Hon. H. H. Stevens on the princi-
pal study subject undertaken this
season by the Junior Board mem-
bers, the conference will hear
short reports on the activities that
engage the attention of the 700
members in the Lower Mainland.
Surrey will report on the unusual-
ly successful War Savings organ-
ization it has sponsored while
Maple Ridge will probably report
on the Town Planning program
which has caused to be lauched
in its district as well as on the
progess being made by its pet
scheme ,Garibaldi Ski Park, north
of Haney. Chilliwack delegates
will outline arrangements for the
B.C. Regional Convention which

of Langley Junior
Commerce, who will preside at the
quarterly
of Lower Mainland Junior Boards
of Trade

AREA COMMITTEE IN

$1.20 Per Year

War Savings Drive Organized

1600 Pledges to Lend Funds for War
Effort Are Required From M-S-A Area
During February Campaign; Drive Is On

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS RALLY TO AID

CANVASS TO OBTAIN

PLEDGES FROM EVERY ADULT WITH INCOME

“You are not being asked to give, only to lend your money and
at a good rate of interest,” A. S. Towell, chairman of the M-S-A
War Savings Committee, told a meeting held Thursday night inthe
Sheffield High School for the purpose of organizing the national
War Savings campaign in this area. It had been intended to hold
the meeting in the Educational Offices but the attendance exceeded
expectations so the meeting moved to the school.

Area Prepares
“All Out” War
Savings Drive

ORGANIZATIONS IN ALL
DISTRICTS RESPOND TO
APPEAL @0 AID DRIVE

Enthusiastic co-operation is be-

bers of the M-S-A War Savings
Committee busily engaged in or-
ganizing the Area to do its part
in the national War Savings cam-
paign this month. Comprehensive
nature of the drive requested by
the authorities has made it neces-
sary for the Committee to appeal
to representative organizations in
the Area to take over the direct
canvass in their respective dist-
ricts and the response has invari-
ably been favorable. .

Quick action has been secured
throughout the Area by the Ter-
ritorial Coverage Committee under
Harvey Henderson. Meetings are
being held in every community
during the next few days, some
already having been held.

A meeting with members of
Huntingdon W. I. takes place to-
day, Wednesday, and another with
the Aberdeen Community Club
tonight. At Upper Sumas a meet-
ing is being held at the home of
J. T. Hunter this Thursday, Feb.
6, at 8 p.m. while a community-
wide meeting takes place in Brad-
ner at 8 pm. Friday, Feb. 7. The
meeting at Jubilee tukes place on
Monday, Feb. 10, at 8 p.m. The
M-S-A organizers will speak at
two meetings Tuesday afternoon,
before the Red Cross meeting at
Mount Lehman and at the W.I.
meeting in Pine Grove hall. Dates
for meetings in other communities
are being arranged.

As THENEWS goes to press it is

announced a public meeting will
be held in the Science Room of
the high school for organization
of Abbotsford and vicinty, Tues-
day, Feb. 11, at 8 pm. Miss Vera
Hunt is convenor. A meeting will
also be held Friday, Feb. 7, at 8
p.m. in Poplar Hall under aus-
pices of Poplar Farmers’ Institute
and Women’s Institute.
The special events committee
which also has charge of the ef-
fort to provide each of the 1800
M-S-A school children with the
first stamp to War Savings Cert-
ificate, met Monday night and ar-
ranged distribution of ticket books
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CHAIRMAN

GRANT DUCKWORTH

Chamber of
conference and dinner

to be held in Abbots-

ing accorded chairmen and mem-!

While such war service is vol-
untary everyone realized that are-
quest to assist could hardly be re-
fused and organization of the cam-
paign proceeded apace. Mr. Towell
Was unanimously chosen as cam-
paign manager, with M. M. Shore
as assistant manager and Mrs. A.
W. Webb, secretary. J. S. Daly ac-
cepted the chairmanship of the
Payroll Savings division; Harvey
Henderson was chairman of Ter-
ritorial Coverage division and Lang.
Sands publicity chairman. Assis-
tants were also named by the
meeting and H. S, Andrews and
M. C. Walker were asked to aid
Mr. Daly. Rey, J. A. Loughton and
Miss Vera Hunt were called on to
assist Harvey Henderson and L.
Caldecott and A. W. Webb were
named to the publicity committee.
Each commitee has power to add
to its numbers as each has a great
deal of work to do if the cam-
paign is carried out in the man-
ner requested by the provincial
and national organizations.
OBJECTIVES

Principal objective of the cam-
Paign is to secure Pledges from
every adult or earning person in
the Area that he or she will lend
a certain sum weekly or monthly
during the war. Minimum quota
from the Area has been set by
the B.C. Committee at 1600
pledges. These pledges take two”
forms, an order to the bank to
deduct the amount monthly from
the person’s checking account, or
an Honor Pledge whereby the
person promises to personally for-
ward the amount weekly or month-
ly for the purchase of War Say-
ings Certificates. In the first case
the bank looks after the detail
of regularly mailing the order to
Ottawa and the certificate is re-
turned direct to the pledger by
Ottawa.

COMPLETE CANVASS

The Payroll Savings Committee
is charged with interviewing all
employers of five or more per-
sons and arranging with him and
his employees that a_ stated
amount will be deducted regularly
from the pay cheque toward pur-
chase of Savings Certfiqiates- and
forwarded by the employer to Ot-
tawa on behalf of each employee.
Problem of the Territorial Cover-
age Committee is to arrange with
representative organizations for
the house-to-house canvass of each
district in connection with the
signing of Bank or Honor pledges
by every citizen.

APPEAL

As chairman of the War Savy-
ings Committee and also of the
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Les Eyres, M.L.A.
Gets Commission
As Pilot Officer

Alderman Leslie H. Eyres,
M.L.A., a veteran of the Royal Air
Force in the Great War, leaves on
or about February 9 to take a
commission in the Royal Canadian
Air Force as a pilot officer,

“Les” Eyres enlisted in 1914 with
the Lord Strathcona Horse at Win-
nipeg and in the spring of 1918
transferred to the Royal Air Force.
He returned to England from
France for training and started to
fly in aetive service in September
as an officer-observer-gunner.

On October 29, 1918, his plane
received a direct hit from a Ger-
man anti-aircraft gun and came
down in enemy territory. He was
taken prisoner and lodged in &
camp at Karlsruhe. He escaped
and the day before armistice was
caught and taken further behind
the lines. It was not until Decem-
ber 10, 1918, that he started on
his way out of Germany via Swit-

ford on Tuesday, Feb. 11,

it wil entertain on May 23, 24.

zerland and France,