IME OF REVIEW INTING AND BLISHING | up. ra ESTABLISHED 1912. "Serving the Municipalities of Central Saanich, North Sa SEVENTH. YEAR, _ No. 42 12 2 PAGES | _SIDNE EY, Vancouver Is land, ‘B. (on W vdnesday,, October 15, 1969. daich, the: Town ot than and the oult Islands x. hairman of. -audiey. Tera C Council's finance. announced last: week- "he: will seek the mayoralty in- De= ‘The school teacher alderman was eritical of the pr esent mayor who, ay “tention: to seek reelection to the, ‘office’ of Mayor, I would like to : : refute’ certain accusations and ‘observations made @ by Alderman . 0] would ‘like to point o out that in: my opinion Alderman Dear has. “not been sufficiently close to the: : . operations of the municipal office ,t0. form the opinions he has indi- ~~“ gated. I would suggest that he is -»: continuing to support the ex-clerk who resigned when Alderman : Dear” was acting mayor during the time Iwas absent. “For the- information’ of the “public and Alderman Dear I would = olike-to° say that I have enjoyed the full ‘cooperation of. the staff o "Brean ee: by the muni= =. cipality, and.they concur:that-my - “office has done. what'ts essential: ina growing coinmunity, ~*T have made myself available: “to all sections of the community, not just: developers, and most of my time is taken up dealing with « “enquiries made “directly” to” the” mayor, If, as Alderman Dear suggests, all community matters should: be dealt with by the paid : Staff, it would mean that people having personal problems to dis- cuss, and: people, mainly. senior citizens, who like to know what is. going on in their town would have to: go through. the processes’ of” ‘ official channels, ° ~~ POLICE CHECK ~ Sidney R.C.M. P, are’ cracke: ing down on tire squealers! - Over the long week-end five : persons: were issued” with traf-° “fie: violation hotices either for’ squealing tires ‘or’ for driving. without due- care and attention, “George - Anderson of Patricia . Bay Highway, Sidney, was heard . - SQuealing the tires of his car in - front of “the theatre cn Beacon at 11:45 p.m. on October 1. On’... October 12 at 2:30 a.m. Thomas Frederick Leahy, of Vic- -toria, . was .. apprehended by _ R.C.M.P.. for squealing tires in NOISY DRIVERS front of ‘the. ‘Craigmyle “Motel. Roderick A, MacKinnon of Lang- ford was issued with a traffic violation notice for driving with. out ‘due care and attention when. he was observed by two members of the R.C.M.P. ‘making several. power ‘turns on the parking lot of the Travelodge. Early in the morning of Oct- ober 13 Terry Norman Allison was noted squealing tires on. Beacon Ave, Charges are pend- ing on a.fifth apprehension for the same offence over the Thanks= giving week-end. -A Few Are Left To Do It All BY BERT. GREEN With more than one-half of the municipal tax collection devoted to education it may be presumed that the need of the child in this respect is well secured, Out of school the story is very different, and as an instance of the decline of parental in- volvement in thé recreational " pursuits of thelr children, the difficulties of the few who keep Saanichton Community Clubalive _ ate worth recording. Organized sporting activities re the main concerh of the Club, and with an enrolment of 648 chil- drén in the three constituent elementary schools of Saanich- ton, Sansbury and Keating there is plenty of scope, _ Actually the range of invoive- ‘ment is greater, because last Yall and winter the eight basket- ball teams sponsored by the Club catered to age groups from eight to 17. The basketbali record was magnificent. Four Island tro- phies were captured, and such is the keenness of coaches and piay- ers at the start of another. sea- son that they vow to defend the honors they have won and to strive for still more in the sea- son ahead, But encouragement is badly needed. Said a member of the Club executive: «Parents will send their children to the games, but they just won't trouble te turn out and see them play,’’ The same parental apathy was experienced in the summer, The Club ran four softball teams ih the Colwood and District League but had great difficulty in ar- (Continued on Pare 3) “MAYOR: ARTHUR FREEMAN “This I ‘cannot agree. I feel -strongly that the mayor should be directly available to the ‘public ‘in matters of confidence, . ~ __ Regarding — the — made.by Alderman Dear that more:work should be-directed to aldermen, and. that an alderman can represent the. municipality equally. - well) -on> the regional boards, I.can only suggest that | Alderman. Dear could have ac- cepted” more work if he had had the time, . As for the other’ al- _dermen,. they, have. indicated that “we all have had : to shoulder” a considerable amount of work and the volume-does not permit them to accept too much. more’ in the time available to them, “IT think most of the mayors in the region will concur. that most . of. their. time is taken up with municipal: affairs in general, “Having. “spent” four years as Mayor of Sidney, and previously as a commissioner of the Vil- Jage of Sidney in 1960-61, I feel -I am competent to judge the re- quirements of a Community such (Continued on Page 2) Motor Cyclist Is Injured — Edward W, Whelan of 2280 Am- herst, Sidney, suffered a broken collarbone . Saturday morning when the motorcycle he was ride ing struck a trailer being pulled by Arthur W, Mason of 9836 Se- cond St. Sidney and North Saa~ nich Volunteer Fire Department ambulance was in attendance, Mr, Mason was turning left off Amity Drive onto the Patricia Bay Highway when the accident occurred, Damage amounted to approximately $160, Charges are contemplated, JERSEY CATTLE AWARD Among Jersey Cattle Ciub lea~- ders for the month of September the senior 2-vear-oid class was topped hy Glenhagan Gem's Wahoo 24, a daughter of Glen« hagan Royal Pinn Gem 35, bred and owned by R, L. Mutrie, of Saanichton, At 2 years 314 days, in 305 days, she produced 16,269 Ibs, milk, 660 Ibs. fat, 4BT ny - fatally suggestion. C SAANICH FATALITY - A 21 year old Saanich man was junction of the East Saanich Road. and the’ Patricia Bay. Highway,” Edward W,. G,: ‘Shortreed. of 482 Sparton_ Road, - Saanich. was pro- nounced dead at’the scene of ‘the “accident: by. examining’ physician: Dred, Scott Groves, He hadbeen 7 proceeding south on the East Saa-_ ity enters the Patricia Bay. High> = 2 Wayen . Central Saanich ‘police stated that at press time.they were: un-- certain whether there would be an inquest or.’ simply: an ‘inquiry. The deceased was single and lived with his parents ‘Mr. and Mrs, -W.D,T. Shortreed, - noose pen SAANICH SCHOOL ~ ENROLMENTS ; “The percentage = increase in: student population ‘down, according to figures pre-. “sented fo. the’ Trustees of Saa- nich: School District on n Wedness is -slowing:. |. day. An “enrolment of percent. , a°7.8: percentage increase over .the enrolinent for 1967, _ Appended are: the September - enrolments of ind!vidual District schools: ” ‘Beaver. Lake Elem. 131; Brent-: wood Elem. 313; Claremont Sr. Sec. 736; Cordova Bay Elem. 434; Deep Cove Elem, 159; (Dogwood) 3; Durrance Elem, 93; Elk Luke Elem, 94; Keating Elem, 334; Lochside Elem. 155; McTavish Read. Elem, -106;. Mount Newton Jr. Sec, 396; North Saanich: Jr, Sec, 373; Prospect Lake Eleni. 85; Royal Oak Elem, 299; Royal Oak Jr. Sec, 429; Saanichton Elem. 121: Sansbury Elem, 193; (Sevenoaks) 9; Sidney Elem. 595. Special Award For the work it .{s doing in assisting girls of Indian heri+ tage, Victoria’s Zonta Club has received a special awardfrom the district council of the interna- tional organization. The Victoria club, headed by Mrs, J, KR. Noble of Deep Cove, had 10 members at a district conference in Seattle when the award was made, and a birthday cake was presented on the oc+ easion of the club's first annie versary. More than 200 delegates attended the conference. The Victoria club, in its first year of operation, set upa schol- arship fund and has given other aid to indian girls attending the Institute of Adult Studies, injured ' early: Saturday ‘morning - when | his -1969-: Fargo -pick=up- truck: left’ the road and |- crashed into: two fir trees at the'|: 5,058. indi ‘cates an increase of 207 students. over the preceding year, or four . A year ‘ago-there: was . Mr, ‘Alger’ on hi Residential An property at the: corner of Chalet and Birch Roads. petition complaining of the num= ber of cattle, the plles of manure, vermin and objectionable smells, : ! They asked ‘the’ Aiunicipality. to’. take:action to. restrain Alger fr from | ‘farming. "(Continued on | Page 2) by the effective aerial photograph that filled the first) ‘page: “of the paper-.on October 1.. I spent considerable time. studying this mosaic prepared: by ‘the Alr Division, Surveys and, Mapping Branch, B,C. Department .of Lands, ~ Forests. and Water Resourses, _. Ym sure that, like myself, many readerstracedthe roads they knew and looked for. the famillar places. I’m sure, . too, that many were Tooking for, their own particular parcel of land. I wonder how many of them know that, in British Columbia, we hold land under the Torrens Land Titles System instead - of under the older Deed Registry System which is still used in parts of Eastern Canada,» There. is a story. behind. the adoption of the Torrens . system, Robert Richard Torrens « later Sir Robert - was born in. ireland in 1814 and went to Australia when hé was 25, There he became successively Collector of Customs, - Colonial Treasurer. and Registrar General, He entered the legislature in 1856, and was briefly premier in 185%, {n 1858, he secured passage of a landholding reform known ie as the Torrens Act, This Act substituted public registration (holding by title” rather than deed) for the older, more precarious and compli- | cated conveyance system for land. Very briefly, registration of ships, registration of land, Z The Torrens System has been widely copled because of its simplicity and efficiency, British Columbia was the first Canadian prov ince to adopt : & modified Torrens system by the 3,C. Torrens Registry Act 2 of 1871, This was followed, in BritishColumbia, by a similar 3 Act with further modifications in 1899. 3 Then Alberta and Saskatchewan adopted pure Torrens z Manitoba and Ontario have a Torrens system = = (Continued off Page 2) Torrens had noted the system used for the . and he adapted this principle to the systems. naa Taam emsmmoninnas aroma roam me ae : rice BY RUTH ENKE oD wish I knew how “many Review readers were, 2 struck SELESFEDTETTEG LETTE VEE ESCASOELEETRRSITE TERRY INEPT EQ INR TEESTE FAYENT SERITTIS OTTO most of. natural’ fea : incurrin, expendit r * age. development of ‘slips, pilin J “and” marina facilities by other resources. ‘You can only, shelter a. ‘few | ships If they. are swinging” at. anchor,’ . he observed. «But. this is such @ tremen=. dous place for. sailing, it has: everything the yachtsman needs, It fs: such a: logical place: for. a: breakwater, L think itis thes able -it will tome," said. Mr Anderson... ces ; “Discussing the Sidney Rotary Club sponsorship ofa community recreational development serv ‘ing the three Peninsula munici« palitles, Mr. Anderson said he. understands that the Department: Bullets Shatter Contemplation — “Tt was a clése cali for Mrs, G. F, Fyfe, 4288 Caén St, Vie~ toria, as she sat beside Dur- rance Lake on the afternoon of October 12; Sidney RCMP. report: ‘that two or three shots whizzad: by within inches of her and splash- ed into the water: Deron Col ban, 320 Walter Place, Sdanich. and Steve Ewald were noted com« ing into the clear, RCMP, fou rifles and ammunition hid- den in the bush. Charges are contemplated. . of 1 wind blows ci atese - list “into the: fiver. Pisee oft ois: CS ; lost. . me figure out the + stint at cows on. each farm from 51, 98, 43, 30 & as. ‘works out the iutnbér ‘to :