2 ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS & MATSQUI NEWS

Oct. 18, 1944

Scenes at Recent 50th Annual Mission Fall Fair

ROVINCIAL
News Letter

Strict new fire regulations, to
safeguard as far as possille the,
public, g<:hered in public halls,

x have been an-
FIRE nounced by At-
REGULATIONS torney- Generals

Department with
the Fire Marshal, Fire Depart-
ments and architects, commenced
drawing up the new regulations.
Other fatal fires in St. John’s
and in Hamilton increased the
necessity and importance of such
regulations. The new regulations
are under the Fire Marshal Act.

Hon. Herbert Anscomb, Minis-
ter of Public Works announced at
a public meeting in Victoria, that
the Government is making full

pr: ration to go ahead h its
road - building
RCD program if, an
PROGRAM employment em-
ergency should

arise immediately after the war.
He said survey parties are in the
field in many parts of the pro-
vince and are looking into pos-
sible expropriation of

Fiftieth annual Mission Fall
Fair, held last month, was out-
standing in the long history of
Mission and District Agricultural
Association, aided on this © oc-
casion by a joint management
committee ingluding members of
Mission and District Board of
Trade. The latter sought $3500
for a new stock barn and to
augment the prize list and be-
lieves it will report a surplus
towards next year’s fair.

Typical scenes at the recent
fair are pictured above: Top view
—judging junior calf clubs with
the new_ stock barn showed in
background. Second and fourth
from top are general views of
the crowds, grounds and build-
ings, including grandstand and
agricultural hall. Bottom pic-
ture is a cleanup of the new
stock barn which has stalls on
either side of a central driveway
extending the length of the
building.

about $10,000. Mr. Maitland
took up the matter with Ottawa
at the request of the Courtenay
and District Fish and Game As-
sociation.

Having completed an
ional trip through the
which

inspect-
interior
included
d,_ Trail,

OKANAGAN

J. B. DENNIS

Auctioneer
GEO. MacLEAN, Assistant
Chilliwack Phone 5661
Sales at the Dennis Auction

Barns Saturdays

Calves—10:30 a.m.

Small tools. farm imple-
ments—11:00 a.m.

Poultry, Swine—12.30

noon.

Saturday Night Sales Dis-
continued
Furniture Sales in Sales
Rooms when announced
Farm Dispersals conducted
anywhere

C. Spencer Pallot

Farmers’
Auctioneer
HANEY, B.C.

Phone: Haney 196Y

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TRIP

Creston, Nelson,
Nakusp, Revel-

lands for streamlined roa
went into no further de
it was apparent from his remark
a first-class road program is wu
der consideration.

Mr. Anscomb repeated the
Government's stand on the Peace
River block development—a road
connection as soon as _ possible

with the B,C. coast and eventual-

ly a railway to bring out the
wheat and coal, possibilit.cs of
the latter characterized by the

Minister as stupendous.

B.C. Forest Service Parks En-
gineers have returned from a 2-
month survey of

PARK the Tweedsmuir
SURVEY Park, thus com-
COMPLETED  pleting the pre-

liminary work on
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ment. The field reports will}
now be assembled and the de-|
tails worked out during the win-
ter months so that when com-
pleted, the Government will have
a comprehensive program for
post-war park development.

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The Qominion Government
early next year will start con-
struction of a fishway over the
am on the
NEW FISH in the Courtenay
LADDER Puntledge River,

Comox - district
of Vancouver Island, to facilitate
movement of salmon ahd trout
into Comox Lake, Attorney-Gen-
eral R. L. Maitland announce
following successful conclusion of

e, Salmon Arm, Kamloops
d Merritt, Premier John Hart
expects to leave for the main-
land shortly to make a tour in
inspection through the Okanagan
Valley, calling at Vernon, Kelo-
wna, Penticton, Oliver and
Princeton,

Hon. H. G. T. Perry, Minister
of Education, announces that
only 20 schools in

B.C. were

still closed Oct.

20 SCHOOLS 1 because of tea-
CLOSED cher shortage.
Most of these

schools are in the northern cen-
tral interior of the province, a-
round the Fort George constitu-
ency of the Minister himself.
British Columbia, thanks to in-
novations of the Department of
Education, is better off in the
teacher situation than any other
province in Canada. In Alberta
and Saskatchewan, for instance,
hundreds of schools are closed.

Hon. George S. Pearson, Pro-
vincial Secretary, announces the
purchase of a $25,000 X-ray ther-
apy unit for the British Colum-
bia Cancer In-
the scope of the
stitute to widen
Govt’s campaign
to reduce the mortality rate due
to this disease.

The Provincial Secretary also
announces that the Government
will proceed immediately with
the construction of a 75-bed tem-
pora addition to the Vancouver
tuberculosis hospital, which will
cost approximately $750,000. The
site for this institution is yet to

CANCER
RESEARCH

negotiations th Hon. Ernest
Bertrand, Federal Minister of
Fisheries. The work will cost

be chosen,

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for the shoe

While demands for telephone
seryice have increased stead-
ily during the war, the equip-
ment necessary to provide ser-
vice hasn't. The Telephone
Company has been prevented
from making any material ad-
ditions to its system, That's
why so many people have to
do without telephone service
these days. The foot just
won't fit the shoe,

Factories that used to produce
telephone equipment are now
needed to fill war orders.

The telephone Situation is

likely to get worse before it

gets better, In the meantime.

essential needs for telephone

service, particularly in con-

nection with the war effort,
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