The Chilliwack Progress from Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada • Page 1

An extensive tocabiilary enables us to expose our ignorance more convincingly. Hou horrified the wirlj ben some disaster kills a lot of people ubo aren't in uniform. FORTY SEVENTH YEAR, Vol. No. 19 CIIILL1WACK, B.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1937 52.00 PER YEAR 4500 Pickers To Harvest Good Hop Crop In Fraser Valley WITHIN a few days an army of 4,500 hop pickers will commence harvesting operations in Canada's only large hop growing area. Later than normal this year, the crop ranges from good to very good in both quality and quantity. Insect pests have been kept well under control and it is expected that with good picking weather the hop yield of 1937 should be one of the best in recent years. Actual date for commencement of picking is set for Monday, 23rd, at most of the yards including Agassiz, with the Haas yard starting on Friday, 27th. The original 40 acres in the Hul bert gardens, first laid out by the late H.

Hulbert in 1893, has been increased to 57 acres. Part of this is producing its first crop this year. Early and Late Clusters, Goldings, and the Fuggles varieties are grown. The Hulbert farm will employ some 300 pickers for three or four weeks. The bulk of this crop is sold in Canada.

A new building of 20 cabins for the pickers is under construction. Ord Gardens At H. N. Ord's "Fuggles Garden" of 40 acres at Sumas, only the one variety is grown. Pests have not been a serious factor this season.

TJnderdraining has proved a profitable investment, increasing the yield and greatly improving the quality of the crop. About 300 pickers will be required to harvest the crop. Separate camps for Indians and whites, housing over 1400, with a doctor and a nurse in charge of the health of each camp, will be found on the Canadian Hop Grower's farm of 300 acres in the Sumas area. White pickers will come from Vancouver, Abbotsford and Chilliwack, while the Indians journey from as far east as Lillooet. The dryers have a capacity of 140,000 pounds each 24 hours.

Haas Operations With a total of 430 acres under i crop, the J. I. C. Haas "Golden Farm" is a busy community, preparing for the arrival of nearly 2000 workers and the handling of a heavy yield of hops. Three hundred Japanese will form a section of this army of pickers.

Thirty six new cabins are nearly completed and four additional blowers have been installed, increasing the daily capacity of the dryers to 185,000 pounds. A new idea in training the vines which spreads the foliage, evolved by Manager A.B.Hinds, has made the control of mildew easier, more effective, and will speed up the picking considerably. Early and Late Clusters, Fuggles and Bramb lings are grown. Five hundred pickers, half of them Indians in a separate camp, will handle the crop in the Sardis yards of the B. C.

Hop according to E. Wright, manager. Kents and Bramblings are grown mostly for export, and this year's crop is a good average. Pests have been few and no mildew has been reported. Facts Interesting facts in connection with the culture and marketing of hops were discovered during a trip through the gardens.

There are 888 plants to the acre in the average yard, and it requires about 30 feet of special twine to connect each root with the trellis. In the Sumas area, tile drainage has improved the quality and more than doubled the production. As 100 pounds of green hops when dried weigh only 21 to 25 pounds, it takes almost one half ton ach of freshly picked hops to make each of the 200 nound bales. While drvintr ordinarilv takes I from 16 to 18 hours, the use of blowers has reduced this to 10 hours or less. The market on the Pacific coast is at present rather dull.

With prospects of double the crop of 1936, hops in Oregon are quoted at less than the cost of production in Canada. The Canadian market, however, is protected to some extent by an import duty of 10 cents a pound. Temporary increase in the population of the district by some 5000 is of considerable Importance to the merchants, and for the next month the streets of the city on Saturday nights should be busy thoroughfares. CANADIAN LEGION CORNER Members attending tlie monthly meeting on Thursday were honored by the presence of Col. A.

L. Coote. who pave the meeting an all too brief but illuminating talk on conditions as affecting returned men in England and other European countries. Col. Coote paid tribute to the Chilliwack branch and complimented officers and men on the efficient and interesting manner in which our meetings are conducted.

He also praised the convention delegates for the interesting manner in which they presented their reports of the provincial convention. Col. Coote was welcomed by the president, members at once rising and greeting him In Bong. "Old Soldiers Never Die, They Only Fade Away." In reply, he stated that he wasn't even going to fade away for a long time yet After the meeting the Colonel chatted with many of his old comrades, closing a very pleasant and Interesting meeting. Members are reminded that tickets can be purchased at the local branch for the Legion picnic sponsored by clover dale branch.

Free transportation will be provided for all from the Fraser Valley. All members are asked to support Cloverdule in making this monster picnic a success. Please assist your brunch by applying as soon as possible. Body Is Found At 12 Mile Lake A body identified as that of Walter Flynn, 31 year old Irish Canadian of Huntingdon, was recovered Sunday from 12 Mile lake near Hope. The man had applied for work at A.

B. Trite's 14 Mile ranch August 7 and was last seen the following day on his way to the lake for a swim. The body, badly decomposed, was found and taken out of the water by provincial police and volunteers. Coroner's inquiry returned a verdict of "accidental death by drowning." The man was believed to have worked in the Fraser Valley. He was buried at Hope yesterday.

Report Detour Open nni.ee MaCdOnell CutOIT Unofficially Open For Traffic Unofficially it was stated in town Tuesday that Geoff. Macdonell has arranged to keep the detour through his field open until the bridge west of Chilliwack on the provincial highway has been completed. Chilliwack motorists have been using the short cut through the Macdonell field for two weeks in preference to the long, dusty and tortuous road officially designated as a detour by the public works department. Three hundred cars used the field route Sunday. It is understood that those using it do so at their own risk.

By Thursday it is expected to have the provincial highway between Hope and Boston Bar completely surfaced. Road crews working on hard surfacing operations between Rosedale and Hope were i delayed last week by rain. The road between Popcum and Cheam View has been completed, however. Oiling of the stretch between Rose dale and Popcum was begun this week. The road between Cheam View and Hope is untouched.

Motor Accidents Show Increase Figures issued by the provincial motor vehicle office at Victoria to Greater Vancouver Traffic and Safety council show an alarming ae cident increase throughout British Columbia for the first six months of 1937. To the end of June, 1943 accidents were reported, an increase of 402, or 26.1 per cent over the corresponding period last year. With fifty deaths from accidents listed, the toll has mounted by sixteen over the initial six months of 1936. From January to the end of June, 1937, 952 persons suffered injuries as compared to 885 in the January June period of the year previous, while property damage climbed to a total of $163,739, increase being $41,575. A total of 99,631 motor vehicle licenses were issued topping the figure for the first half of 1936 by 9710.

Visit Lake Nine hundred and twenty cars containing 3983 persons visited Cul tus Lake Sunday, according to park board figures. New Directory Published No longer does the pioneer family of Zink retain a monopoly of the section of the Chilliwack Telephones directory, it was disclosed this week. In the new issue the listings include Henry Zacharias of 436 Wellington avenue. The directory, published by The Progress, lists 1030 names and numbers. It was mailed to subscribers Friday.

Anyone not having received a copy may obtain the same on request at The Progress office. The total number of subscribers represents an increase of 5 per cent, thereby equalling the previous record enrollment of 1929. C. Paper Wins Clarke Trophy Cranbrook Courier Wins Best Newspaper Award At Halifax Convention Keeping British Columbia's long standing superiority in the medium sized weekly newspaper field, The Cranbrook Courier won the Charles Clarke Cup for excellence in papers having between 1000 and 2000 circulation. The cup, twice won by The Progress, was awarded at the Canadian Weekly Newspapers convention held Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Halifax, N.

S. The Progress did not enter the competition this year. Prominent part in proceedings of the convention was taken by C. A. Barber, editor of The Progress.

He presented a silver tray to retiring President L. J. Bennett, Carman, as a feature of the dinner tendered delegates by the govern ment of the province. Mr. Barber also served on the resolutions committee of the association.

Tribute was paid to Mary A. Barber of Chilliwack and Herb McCrea, publisher of the Herald, Hanna, both of whom died since the last convention. Tribute to Papers Addressing the convention of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper association in Halifax, J. G. Johnston, secretary of the Canadian Chain Store association, paid tribute to newspapers as the ultimate guardians of the right of consumers to buy what they need at the lowest cost of distribution.

"The old order changeth," quoted Mr. Johnston, "but how slow the old order was to change before the printing press began to spread civilization! The old order was slow to change because, although gossip travels swiftly, facts are slow to take hold until placed in cold hard type in the newspapers." Without newspapers telling consumers how most efficiently to spend their dollars, and their pennies, the speaker said, old methods of getting goods from the producer would have continued. The chain stores were pioneers in shortening the bridge between producer and consumer, with the result that today the toll necessarily exacted by the people who have built and operate the toll bridges along the road of distribution is less than in the old days. This does not mean, the speaker said, that the chain stores are the only retail organiza tions which are efficient. Mure Efficient "The point I wish to make," said the speaker, "is that all kinds of retail organizations have become more efficient since the chains have developed." "The chain food stores were the first to reduce high wholesaling cost and they passed their savings on to the consumer in the form of lower prices," said Mr.

Johnston. "The result was in the course of a few years the wholesaling method was changed; they eliminated credits, they found other efficiencies so that today the small independent mer chant can be served by his whole saler about as cheaply as the chain 1 store can warehouse goods and deliver them to the chain store. "This commendable step, this step which has saved untold mil iions of dollars to tne consumers of lhjs countrv, this saving. wnicn has Qwinri thm tr. on i other ta enabled them to enjoy other bene fits of a modern world, followed the chain store men's discovery of the value of advertising," said Mr.

Johnston. Ads Effective "If we go back to the early days of the chain food store," added the speaker, "we will find that among the principles on which they operated was that there should be no money 'thrown away' on advertising. Perhaps they were right because in those days, when there were no automobiles to enable the customers to come for miles to save pennies in the Saturday shopping, all chain stores were neighborhood stores and the advertising possibly could be fairly effective if it was confined to the prices shown in the windows. "But in the few years following the war when everybody bought an automobile, some one in the chain store business discovered that newspaper advertising would' be a big factor in building sales volume and high sales volume is the great objective of every chain store man. From that day the chain store business grew by leaps and bounds until 1932, and it hasn't stopped growing yet though slowed by the depression.

From that day when advertising began to be used by the chain food store, the consumer has been benefited by the reduction in distribution costs in the chain stbre business and in the retail business which is not chain store business. "This is a prime example of the value of newspaper advertising to the consumer." Change Hector McDonald of Safeway Stores has been appointed manager of the Overwaitea store, Chilliwack. W. A. Wilson will continue at the Overwaitea for two weeks while members of the staff are on holidays.

Total attendance at Langley's municipal picnic, held this year in Victoria was 841. Coronation Medals Received From George VI In token of their prominence in the community, IUfve (i. Itvder, Mayor Ivan Hurndall, II. J. Barber, M.P., and Mrs.

Barber received Coronation medals Monday from His Majesty King (ieorge VI. The medal has the likeness of a profile of the King and Queen on one side with the inscription, "George VI, Queen Elizabeth, crowned 12 May 1937," on the reverse. It is hung from a scarlet, white and blue ribbon and was accompanied by a message from the King as follows: "By command of His Majesty the King the accompanying medal is forwarded to to be worn in commemoration of Their Majesties' Coronation 12th May, 1937." Abolish Matric Exams Hope to Eliminate Cramming For Final Examinations Matriculation examinations, bugbear of every school boy and girl in British Columbia, are to be wiped out in most high schools of this province, Hon. G. M.

Weir, minister of education, announced Friday. In place of examinations next June, pupils will be given matriculation standing on the basis of their work during the year, just as they are promoted now from public to high schools. This system of recommendation will be applied, however, only to approved high schools, which are considered to be equipped adequately to judge whether a student is competent to enter university. Exams For Some "It is expected," Dr. Weir said, "that regulations prescribing the required standard of qualification of teachers, equipment of high schools, teaching load, library serv ice, laboratory, in their year's work will be framed and sent out to the high schools before the end of September or early in October, "Final examinations will be held by the department in June next, for the benefit of students who nave not gained approved graaes year are as follows: during the year and for those who i The grower will be charged a wish to compete for scholarships maximum of 10 cents a sack to offered by the University of British cover the costs of board and agency Columbia." operation.

No other charges will No More "Cramming" 1 be made. Last year charges such Dr. Weir said he thought the 35 "grading freight, shrinkage in "accrediting" system would reduce leading and sacks were automa v.oif tv.1 nmkr rf matripnia tically charged against the grower tiJon students writing examinations, In June of tnis 1542 students wrote the fu), junior matriculation tests and 2980 wrote partials Dr. Weir described the new svs tem as final and most impor. tant stae in the program of elimi nati examinations for Ho.

jt woud remove the "cu of teachers and students for thp last two months of the school term. Meanwhile it has been discovered that a mistake was made in the morirc nf Mioo Finrpnpp Hnmriall daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Hurndall. who led iunior matricu rhilliwark h'eh school.

The Drovincial department of education acknowledged a mis take which left her with an average of 80 in place of 83. ci" isomer 1 rail 1C increase Motor traffic through the port of Huntingdon during the months of April, May, June, July totalled 16,072 vehicles. This is a substantial increase over the comparative period of last year, when the figure was 13,949. A halibut weighing 208 pounds was caught off Ucluelet. It was landed on a hand line and a salmon spoon.

Bumper Oat Crop Now Being Harvested Here DESPITE the ravages of rain and wind, bulk of the district's bumper oat crop will be cut this week providing weather conditions are favorable. little material loss has been suffered, it is estimated that over "0 per cent of the crop was flattened by wind and rain last week. The oats were well filled before going down, however, and most of them will be salvaged. Cutting will be difficult in most areas. Fall wheat has been cut and threshed and some spring wheat has been cut.

A good crop is anticipated. An average crop of roots was assisted considerably by the same rain that damaged oats. Farmers' are now cutting their second crop of clover. Pasture benefitted from last week's rain. Crops here are about ten days ahead of Delta, it is stated.

Potatoes are free from blight. Pruit buyers state that a sudden "drop" has affected prune trees and reduced the crop about 35 per cent. They predict that prices will advance well above those at which some local growers recently contracted to sell to coast canneries. Seventy five per cent of a bumper greengage crop has already been picked. Prices were $5 to $10 a Potato Board Starts Once More Swings Into Action Following Recent Appeal Court Decision Prices of potatoes and onions to licensed wholesalers were set by the B.

C. Coast Vegetable Marketing board Friday as the board resumed control of the marketing of certain vegetables Monday. Announcements, published over the name of the board's agency, Oppenheimer Bros. Wood Vancouver, sets the prices to licensed wholesalers in Vancouver for Early Epicure potatoes at $20 a ton and for second early varieties of potatoes at $22 a ton. The announcement also sets the price for Grade Canada No.

2 onions to licensed wholesalers at $35 a ton. Meeting at the offices of their agency on Thursday, the board laid plans for the resumption of control. Growers, who are being notified through the published announcement, are advised that all deliveries of the two vegetables in Vancouver must be reported to the warehouse of the agency and that potatoes and onions must be packed in new branded sacks and have the board tags attached, which are being issued by the board. Telling growers that "satisfactory marketing will be our aim," the agency urges them to co operate with and support the marketing board. Under this plan the wholesaler will have the advantage of knowing that the price will remain firm, thereby permitting the purchase of volume supplies.

In return the retailer will also have the assurance of stabilized prices for a specific period. At the prices fixed for the opening three months of this season the consumer will be able to purchase potatoes at approximately $1.45 a sack. Profiting by the experience of last vears operation, the board peration and agency this year plan to eliminate much of the difficulties in price structure and aim at stabilized prices for specific periods throughout. hanjres Summarized "Basic differences between this i year's operation and the plan last account in addition to the operating I chare Jf But I My 8UCn charge necessary will be i invoied at grower request, The incoming crop will be in spected for grace by Dominion gov ernment inspectors as before. If a grower ships potatoes that are 1 under graoe.

they will be regraded the tim and the grower noti nea 1 nereaiier me grower win De responsible to remove the potatoes I rM1 warehouses and have them properly graced before reshipment to the agency. Last year the board assumed the responsibility for re grading al! undergrade supplies arriving at the agency, a iacior which gave rise to much criticism. This vear the onus will rest entirely with the grower. Know tot! and Returns By fixir.g the price of potatoes for specific periods of time ine wnoie saier, retailer and grower will knov. definitely what their costs and re turns will be.

Last year settlement with growers was made at the close of different pools, during which time prices fluctuated, therefore the final returns were an unknown quantity until some days after the close of each pool. Among the outstanding changes between the plan ot operation tnis year and that followed last year is the declaration by Lome Wood of Oppenheimer Bros, and Wood ton above those of last year. Prices for a plentiful yield of transparent apples were maintained at a good level throughout the season. Growers were paid IVt cents a pound. The crop is Just about over.

One fruit buyer started picking Gravensteins Tuesday. Yields of apples of all varieties generally vary greatly from farm to farm this year. Bradshaw plums, a blue fruit excellent for canning, are being picked and shipped this week. A very good crop is anticipated. Blackberry picking started Monday.

As usual, they are plentiful. A blue grape crop far above average is in prospect this year. They are filling out well at present but fears are expressed in some quarters that they may not ripen before frosts damage them. i Mounties Be Here September 22 23 CANADA'S famed guardians of law and order, the scarlet coated Royal Canadian Mounted Police, will contribute their colorful musical ride as one of the feature attractions of Chilliwack's big "Coronation Year" exhibition if plans laid by the executive of the Agricultural association materialize. Meeting Wednesday night in the city hall, the executive endorsed a resolution from the attractions committee that efforts be made to secure this brilliant display for two performances, September 22 and 23.

Initial steps were taken to obtain permission from Ottawa. Preparations for advance ticket sales were made. A strip ticket, good for three admissions, will be sold at $1. Grandstand admission is free. Sale of tickets will be undertaken by five teams of twelve directors each.

Team captains are Mrs. George Green, Miss Ruth Mac Kenzie, Harold W. German, Stan Annis and W. T. Richardson.

Conflict between dates for Puyal lup and Chilliwack fairs may prevent Washington junior farmers from participating in judging competitions. A resolution to have the fair open on Wednesday night, 22nd, with an admission charge of 25 cents was passed. Buildings will close at 10 p.m. The proposed extension of the lighting system in the cattle barn at a cost of $67 was referred by the meeting to the finance committee. Inadequate lighting has long hampered night work and inspection.

Committee chairmen reported that the district was entering enthusiastically into the spirit of the exhibition and that competition in all classes would be strenuous. C. W. Daniels was nominated as a director and appointed to the finance committee. The B.

C. Electric Railway is being urged to run a special excur fajr a Presbytery Elects Rev. David Smith The presbytery of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Canada met in St. Paul's church, Vancouver, Tuesday. Rev.

J. R. Frizell, moderator; Rev. J. C.

McLean Bell, clerk, and a large number of ministers and elders were present. Rev. David Smith, missionary to the Chinese in Canada, was elected moderator for the ensuing six months. Rev. J.

Alan Munro, newly inducted minister of Chilliwack, was welcomed to the presbytery. Rumor States New Plant To Start Possibility of the entrance of a prominent milk evaporating company into the Fraser Valley looms large, says an Abbotsford writer. The circulation of the rumor was coincident with the visit in Abbots ford last week of Basil Gardom, president of the Independent Milk Producers. He indicated that his group would not decide their milk i processing plans or possible loca tions until provincial marketing legislation had been definitelv I settled. TOpcicrn! Henry M.

Eddie, for fifteen years president and secretary of the Chilliwack Liberal association, announced his resignation Monday. Pressure of business prevents him from continuing, Mr. Eddie states. agents for the board, that the books of the agency will be open to inspection at all times by growers licensed through the board. The agency of the board aims to have all supplies sold before arrival if possible, but in any event the grower is to be paid 50 per cent cash for each delivery and the balance within thirty days.

"We aim to operate on a straight merchandising basis," said Mr. Peterson, chairman of the board. "Stabilized prices will be maintained at all times. The grower, retailer and wholesaler will know exactly where they stand, and there will be absolutely no variations in prices. Guaranteed Price "We guarantee to handle 60 per cent of the marketable crop of each grower at guaranteed prices, pay cash for 50 per cent of each delivery at our warehouse, and the balance within thirty days.

The grower will be held responsible to deliver his crop definitely up to Dominion government grades and in new sacks specified by the board." Tags for which the grower will pay 10 cents each will be provided by the board, and this year they will be dated, according to Mr. Peterson. "With the termination of each date period new tags will be released. Unused tags bearing obsolete date will be picked up and replaced by new tags," he said. Prices set by the board Friday are the first since Mr.

Justice Man son in Supreme Court in Vancouver on May 10 declared the provincial marketing act to be invalid. It follows a decision of the court of appeal that the marketing act is valid, and a quashing of an injunction against the board. May For Fair MacLeod Pilots Vice Regal Party An honor bestowed on few Canadian pilots fell to Squadron Leader Earl MacLeod, Royal Canadian Air Force, and native son of Chilliwack, when he flew Canada's governor general and Lady Tweedsmuir on a fishing trip in far northern British Columbia. Squadron Leader MacLeod was chosen as the man to give Lady Tweedsmuir her first airplane flight. Her Excellency boarded the plane piloted by him for a ten mile flight back to camp from NataJkuz lake at the eastern end of Intata river.

She said later she did not like flying but Squadron Leader MacLeod declared she would have become accustomed to it had the flight been longer. The air was bumpy in spots. She was affected by the "feeling of being in suspension" she said. Cattle Show In South A. B.

Trites and A. E. Dumvill Send Jersey Exhibits Fourteen head of high grade Jerseys left Chilliwack Friday for southern stock shows. The animals are owned by A. B.

Trites, operator of 14 Mile ranch, near Hope. The cattle will compete at shows from Los Angeles to Portland. August 20 29 they are to be shown at the San Joaquin county fair at Stockton. The California State fair, Sacramento, the Los Angeles County fair at Pomona, and the hibition at Portland will all have the Trites herd competing. The herd was headed by Lindell Lady's Volunteer, recently purchased from J.

Grauer Sons. La Godillie Sporting Girl and Lindell Solitude's Queen are from the newly imported cattle recently brought from the Isle of Jersey by Mr. Trites and A. E. Dumville.

In addition to the Trites herd, Lindell farms are sending four daughters of A. E. Dumville new bull, Galinthia's Royalist, Louis Botrel and Neil MacPher son are accompanying the herd. I Police Court Blotter I Fraser Valley Poster Co. parking near a hvdrant, S3 for and S2.25 costs.

Arthur E. Furniss. unlawful parking. $5 and $2.25 costs. Robert A.

Merrilees, exceeding the speed limit indicated by signs at Cultus Lake. $5 and $2.75 costs. Morris Brown, fined $10 and costs last week for trespassing on an Indian reserve, is not to be confused with Maurice Brown, Chilliwack Central road. Skidding on the wet pavement around one of the Little Mountain curves Saturday, a car driven by J. Pincus of Seattle collided with a truck driven by R.

D. MacGregor, Boston Bar. Damages totalling $375 were done to both vehicles. No one was injured. Koichy Miyamato, no chauffeur's license, $5 and costs.

Annie Mussel, selling fish illegally under the fisheries act, $2.50 and costs. Eric Webster, being in illegal possession of fish under the fisheries act, fined $2.50 and costs and his car confiscated Iehigero Uemura, failing to stop at stop sign. $10 and costs A Yarrow resident, carrying passengers in a freight vehicle. $15 and costs. Bootleggers Are Running Fish Dominion Fisheries officials are again on the trail of "fish bootleggers" men who buy salmon illegally from Indians in the Fraser canyon area and truck them to the Vancouver market.

That the bootlegging business is profitable has been shown in previous trials on the charge. Under questioning, lawbreakers have admitted that a profit of $300 to $400 on a few loads of fish is not out of the ordinary. Ingenious methods are used to mask the real eontent of trucks. Dummy loads of all descriptions are hauled, it is asserted. City Council Fire Risk Long Session Develops In Mayor's Absence Monday Night Prospects of a short session developed into a fairly long evening at a meeting of the city council on Monday.

Alderman Eyres was in the chair, due to the absence of the mayor from the city. Suggesting that the time had arrived for the city to provide its own inspection, H. L. Taylor, provincial electrical inspector, took some time to explain the workings of his department, and the problems connected with the supervision of house wiring. A resolution left the subject in the hands of the fire and light committee for further investigation.

Improvements to the drainage system on Hodgins avenue were authorized. Interested parties will supply the material and the city will take care of the necessary labor. Incinerators and the burning of rubbish inside the fire limits were discussed with Fire Marshal T. P. Knight, who requested instructions.

Chairman of the fire and light committee will conduct an inspection trip with Mr. Knight. Aid in preparing a lot on Lewis avenue for building operations was sought by H. Cartmell. Alderman Dennis will go over the proposition and report.

Alderman Robertson reported on the trials and tribulations of handling some relief cases and the difficulty of weighing long wheel base trucks on the city scales. Request from a ratepayer for exemption from tax penalties was refused. A petition from residents for a sidewalk on Maple avenue, under local improvement conditions, was accepted. Current accounts amounting to $4,110.29 were ordered paid. Visiting bowlers from South Africa will be entertained at lunch Friday.

The mayor and available aldermen will attend the meeting in Nanaimo next month of the Union of B. C. Municipalities. Alderman Pook reported progress in the matter of procuring a dog catcher. A general round table conference on parking, angle and parallel; location of hvdrants: licenses, civic, truck and bus; highway diversion and speed of motor cars closed the I evenjng Prairie People Flock to B.

C. From the burned up prairies of Southern Saskatchewan ruined farmers are straggling into British Columbia in such numbers that they will create a serious relief problem in the autumn, officials of the unemployment administration in Victoria believe. For the present no relief is being given to the newcomers from the Prairies, and during the summer weather they are apparently managing to survive on their own resources, but with the coming of cold weather it is expected they will require assistance to live, and once more the r.rovincial treasurv of Br itish Columbia will have to handle the relief problem of neighboring provinces. "Were it not fur the influx of people from the Prairies, there W0Uld not be an able bodied man out of work in British Columbia," Hon. G.

S. Pearson, minister of labor, said Monday. While relief rolls have been going down of late months, they would have decreased much more rapidly but for the fact that outsiders from the Prairies are taking British Columbia jobs. If the situation continues to grow more serious, it will be the subject of discussion between the provincial and federal governments, since it is part of the great drought problem, which is accepted as being a national responsibility. Disallowed Following an exchange of telegrams this week between Premier Aberhart and Prime Minister Mackenzie King.

Alberta's Social Credit bank legislation was disallowed by the Dominion government Tuesday. Today. Alberta's leader is seeking advice from his cabinet. One meeting has already been held but no statement issued. Aberhart has already declined to refer his legislation to the Supreme Court of Canada and his next step is unknown, although he may use disallowance as an election issue.

COMING EVENTS AS ADVERTISED IN THE PROGRESS TODAY Thursday, August 19: Boxla. Younc Salmonhellies vs. Mustangs, Cltiilmack Box. Friday Saturday, Aaguit 20 31: Strand. "Sea Devils." Honday Tnday, 23 24: Strand, "The Go Getter." Thanday, Anfrost 25 16 Strand.

They Gave Him a Gun." Thursday, August 26: Boxla. Muptanps vs. New Westminster Chiinipinns, Chilliwack Box. August 30 September 6: Cunudu Pacific Kxhibitiuii, Vancouver..