THE TERRACE NEWS, WEDNESDAD, MARCH 21, 1934 ” Philbert Hotel TERRACE, B. C. Fully Modern Electric Light Running Water Travellers Sample Rooms PLO. Box 5, ; Telephone Gardon Temple, Prop. i) Rough Lumber No. 2 Shiplap S45 common dimension.and No. 1 Ship- lap No, 1 Finish, Siding, Flooring, V-joint . Ete. Mouldings, PRICES ON APPLICATION Geo. Little Terrace, B.C. ’ Shingles 7 Make the Hotel Grosvenor your home while iu VYaacouver. Here is every comfort and service—cheerful lounge, writing and smoking rooms, dining room. Just two blocks away is the centre’ of Vancouver's shopping and theatre district. Rates are very rea- sonable. RATES Daily: - Det'd Bath $1.50 ‘With Bath « §2.00 De Sms 00 td Bath $ 9, With Bath $12,004 f * In January 1984, 500 ‘commer- cial vessels ‘passed through: the paying $2,160,- announcement .by the. United States War Department. same month of 1983, 415 commer- cial vessels passed through ihe Canal, paying $1,762,808.56 in tolls. Canadian canals are oper- ated by the government free of “toll, and the cost of operation is borne by the Canadian Taxpayer. Rt, Hon, W. L. Mackenzie King, grandson of William Lyon Mac- kenzie, first mayor of Toronto, will be the speaker at the Con- tennial dinner to be given by the . William Lyon Mackenzie Chapter, I.0.D.E., at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto, March 5. He will be in- troduced by ex-Mayor Thomas L. Church and a number of former mayors of Toronto will be pres- ent at the fuactiun. Bringing back a United States’ speed skating title, Miss Edith Kingsmill wes greoted by a larre crowd of sport enthusiasts at the Canadian Pacific railway stetion at Winzipes recently on her re- turn from Chicaro where she ha won the 440 yard speed skating race for women, shattering the American record. Miss Dorothy Standish, of Banff, is now “Quecn Dorothy” of the 1985 Banff Winter Carnival. She was escorted down the aisle at the ballroom where the function took place, knelt at the feet of the late Queen, Miss Violet Davis, of Edmonton, and was crowned by her,. Queen Dorothy thanked her subjects and. expressed the hops . Something new in ski-ing has . been evclved in the Laurentians, skiers’ paradise to the north of Montreal, This is the “Flying Kiometre” claimed to be the first time ever tried out on the Am- erican continent. Entrants wore crash helmets and ran the race. down a specially. prepared 35 de- gree slope, A. speed of 53 miles an hour was recorded. “The dogs like altitude,” was the comment vf Tom Wheeler, well-known eastern Canada musher, as his team of huskies swept over Montresl in & Six- passenger plane heading for the Laconia, New Hampshire, Dog Derby as a test for the Quebec internalicnal Dog Derby in which he is also engaged. No less warm for’ being a trifle overdue, | 600 Winnipez sportsmen tendered a banquet and presenta- tions to the Winnipeg Rugby team at the Royal Alexandra Hotel in that city recenily. They were in the play-offs for the Dominion Rugby championship last Fall. It may look like a long winter this time of year, but A. D. Bain, manager of Canadian Pacific mountain hotels and bungalow campa in the Rockies states they will .be opened earlier this year ‘on account of large conventions _ scheduled for the latter part of June, June 22 wag stated by Mr, Bain to be the date when they ‘would be opened, | Mr. and Mrs Alexander Cochra- ne Forbes honeymooned at the Seigniory Club, Quebec, after their marriage at Ottawa recent- ly, Mrs. Forbes wes Irene Helen Robbins, daughter of Hon. War- ren D. Robbins, Unitqd States Minister to Canada, and a relative In the. she would make as good a queen. .-as her predecessor on the throne, - Bali; The Canadian Pacific Railway..: 2 supply farm, Strathmore, Alia, - had the best Holstein cow in the four-year-old or over (not* in milk) class at the Royal Winter Fair recently held at Toronto, Banff--Winter. Sports Carnival wil] be held from January 31 to February 4, it is announced. The carnival will be followed by a series of sports week-ends, each being devoted to one parti- cular tyne of sport. . ‘The problem of truck-rail com- petition was declared a national one by S. Hayes,: M.A., in a ra- cent address before the Engin- eerlng Institute. He saw- regula- tlon and. restriction in areas where the truck does not be- long as the only solutions. Christmas: festivities this ‘year will be enlivened. by- Japanese oranges of which 38,400 boxes arrived at Victorla recently aboard the Empress of Canada, for distribution to a number of Canadian cities. 5,000 boxes. were left at Victoria and the fruit will doubtless feature in the Empress Hotel Yuletide celebra~ - tions. © Bince October 1, 1930, a total of 101,765 people have been set- tled on Canadian farms or given farm employment under the au- spices of the Dominion Depart- ment of Immigration and the ‘two great transcontinental rall- ‘way companies, according to a report issued by the Department _of Immigration. 89,236 of these ‘ people were settled without fi- nancial assistance: Expression of confidence in a .> brighter business. outlook...in- 1, Canada, coupled with definite -improvement in conditions throughout the Dominion, was made recently by H, J, Hum- phrey, general manager, Can- adian Pacific Railway, eastern lines, In an interview during his trip of inspection to the Mari- times prior tc the opening of the winter navigation season, Five ports hitherto not touched at by world cruises — Penang, Straits Settlements: Semarang, Java; Boeleleng and; Padang Bay, and Zamboanga in the Zula Archipelago — have been added to the 1984 itinerary of sa Canadian Pacific liner Em- Banff Queen of President Roosevelt. ee ed | a For the first - eight weeks ‘of 1984, up to Feb, 22, shipimerits’ “front western o. eastern Canada,.as compared with | 1083, included, 12,420 cattle, 4,268 in 1938, 148 enives, 19 in 1083; 45,962 hos, 56,812 in’ 1988, and 17, 780 sheep, 12,993 in 1033, a ave you paid your supseription yet iss Violet Davis, of Edmonton, YA Alberta, who will reign as Queen of the Banff Winter Car- nival, from January 31st to Feb- ruary 4th, inclusive. This inter- nationally famous winter sports meet, which provides thrills rang- ing from outdoor swimming, to- toboggan chutes built on mountain “sides, and eki-joring over moun- - tain trails, will: this year again: take its place among the outstand- ‘SPECIAL LOW. EASTER FARES BETWEEN ALL POINTS On Sale MARCH 29 to APRIL 1 CANADIAN NATIONAL V-1. 134 APTS 1 cy wae Committee All | Ready to Meet Local Farmers The conunittee to draw. up plans to implesent the recommendations of Market Comtnisstoner J. A, Grant met on Friday night and went. thoroughly into the local murketing problems. As n result of the meeting a number of recommendations, covering the whole set up of the proposed scheme were drawn up and these will be presented to a general meeting of the farmers of the district on Saturday evening. Th recommendations, are as follows: That the name of the organization he “Lower Skeena Co-operative pro- deers,” « ‘ The territory to include Rema, Ter- rice and Vanarsdol. — While Prince Rupert is our ‘principal market, produce will not be shipped east under the Prince Rupert whole- sele price, plus the rail charge fram lrinee Rupert to the point of ship- ment, , . A contact man be nppointed by the meedicers im dthat he be remunerated ly salary rather than on a commission Disis, A. conuuittee be appointed to sign tp the preducers throughout the dist- viet and when 15% of the producers are secured a meeting be ealled = to elect a beard of directors. Tass he issued to the contact man henring the mnme of the association, to Jhe atticlied to ai poreels inspected by Nim with the gerade of the contents Inaurked: thereon. No produce not in- spected ly contact nian te bear said figs. ; the offer of the proy tetal market. commissioner te supply an inspector for one mouth for instruction purposes be accepted. - irectors to draw up a schedule of pennities to be assessed against ‘mem- hors widergrading oy atherwise violat- ing the rules of the association. Investigations be made with a view ‘to‘having contact mon handle surplus fruits by the SO2 process. Contact man must carry out his duties impartially. without regard to the opinion of anyane. \ Members selling to retailers must. charge not less tlinn price being char- ged by wholesalers at time of sale. « INJURED IN KALUM CAMP Carl Zatndka was seriously injured just before noon on Thursday when he was eanght by a falling tree on the ‘att Pohle logging operation some; dis- tance from town on the Kalum road.’ When the. warning was given that a tree was about to fall the man started to get out of the way; but for some ren- son took the wrong direction and ran under the tree instead of away from it. - |The tree enught hi mbehind : the: neck. ing Western Canadian winter cars : ulvals, y rn lax your subseription been paid yet? ‘| Word was sent to: town and Mr. and Mrs, Smith (RiN.Y legt in Bert Swains truck nnd brought the injured man in. He was xent to Rupert, on the-evenhfir | train as the local. Doctor AWaB out. of . tow nat the time. . 7