‘The $5,181,000 referendum to
be submitted to Surrey elec-
tors on December 9, will pro-
vide funds for purchasing
School sites, construction of
new schools, board members
told a special meeting Tues-
day night. Municipa: sare of

the cost will be $2,590,500 or |

50 per cent of the total, they
said.

The plan envisaged is a
Jong-range one designed to
take care of the rapidly in-
(reasing school population in
the municipality. The referen-
dum will provide for 98 ele-
mentary, 70 junior high and
15 senior high classrooms, as
well as Home Economics and
Industrial Arts rooms at ju-
nior and senior highs.

Board members pointed out
that as the referendum will be
made up of several by-laws
throughout the year, the full
amount does not become a
charge on the taxpayers at the
time it is passed.

The cost of the capital debt
Should not increase taxes for
the individual to any great
extent.

Construction will cover a
five-year period with the
building programme planned
to ‘meet increasing school
needs systematically rather
than trying to deal with them
after they have reached the
acute stage, a board member
Said:

“In the past, by-laws have
provided only for immediate
enrollment needs with little
Or no provision for the fut-
ure,” he added and went on
to say that approximately
$1,000,000 per year would be
Spent on construction.

to be provided, 51 will be ad-
ditigns to existing schools,
and 132 will be included in 14
new schools to be built
throughout the whole school
district.” |

Enrollment figures project-
ed to 1960 show that, if pre-
Sent trends continue, 16,000
pupils, as compared with the
Present 1956 figures of 10,500
pupils, will be enrolled in
municipal schools.

All figures are based on ex-
baustive studies of estimated
enrollment, made by

W.R. Rotary
Third Soccer

pledged full
f B

ot

forahip of another soccer team| what we are doing now.”
Promotion| By taking this step

ou ex in the |has thrown i
‘oreanizaton
Tete group | the community,

4x addition to their

fanicipal Share $2,590500.

~ Vietoria To Pay Half School
By-law, Meeting Told

the | coveralls and rendered first aid to (2)

By Vin Coyne,

White Rock Rotary Club league opened that they were

support to this|willing to sponsor this age
it recreational pro-|group, should no other sup-
framme by announcing spon-|porter be found, and that's TY and Mud Bay Districts, as

& White Rock Weekly

and Surrounding Districts.
White Rock, B.C., Thursday, October 25th, 1956

COUNCIL
BREVITIES

A delegation from Newton
Ratepayers waited on Council
Monday concerning the prob
lem of policing the Municipal-
ity. It was pointed out that
policing should be on a basis
of 1 officer per 1000 popula-
‘tion. Sam Smith, Ratepayers’

According to the school plan | President, complained of “slow | These words, spoken by
Outlined by board members, /service’ from RCMP after|Rey. E. Pitt Griffiths, Rector
Schools will be more strategi- | break ins at Newton Commun- ,of the Church of the Holy
jeally placed in heavily popu- ity Hall. ||Prinity, White Rock, prefaced
later areas and within walk-)| Brae 1 a service unique in the his-
ling distance for most stud-| Councillor Kuhn and Reeve |tory of the parish—the Conse-
fents. This plan will help to'Nesbitt will go to Victoria /cration of the Church. They
keep down transportation’) with the dyking commission formed part of the “Petition
costs, to meet with the Cabinet re- for Consecration” made on be-

half of the Incumbent,

The Church

“We certify this church
building to be free from any
debts or legal encumbrances

the same, and set it apart for
ever for the worship of God,
according to the rites and dis-
cipline of the Anglican Church
of Canada,’

Town Planning Commission,
the Municipal Planning Offices
and information gathered from
|Parent-Teachers’ Associations,
the meeting was told.

Serving White Rock, Sunnyside, Ocean Park, Crescent Beach, Panorama Ridge,

Consecration Service Held

and do pray you to consecrate |§

Of The Holy Trinity ©

In locating the approxi-/arding the recent dyking r
mately a dozen new school SUrvey. Churchwardens and parishion-
, é ers of the Church and presen-

sites the boa lecided to em- ers of
(a Saree ted to the Bishop of New

Possible revision of tax no-

ploy a qualified apr 4 ee i Hen
tices rry infor re ninster, 0, Ww: i

thus they were able to, obtain | t! poe cabrveuntorz? ation ie sstminste no, ¥ H hh

complete factual information Special taxes as asked by al and. ece tical

on each site, with an ici. Sunnyside Ratepayers has ors and Clergy of the Diocese,

pated saving of taxpayers’ been referred to 57 Council. stood just inside the main door

ear, i : : of the Church on Thursday

om Geo. A. Cook
Sunny

d ‘to the plan-

évening last.

COLOURFUL

Among the new sites to be

acquired at a

ing ir

PROCE

SION

of ‘sid:

Bishop haying accepted

Petition and given his con-

area; one

North Bluff and a nt, the colourful proce.

Johnston and slowly up the Chure!
where a Junior Hi 1 De wards the Chancel while the
ned. A new element rnprior, and congregation sang
at Oliver and Ber; to 5. H 4th Psalm. The Crucifer
additional rooms planned for will represent S y at this W. ©. Revitt) led; fol-
White Rock and distric course, requested by the ed by the Registrar of the
clude 4 rooms at Semiahmoo Civil Defence Control Com- (Mr. R, T. Du-Mou-

and two at Sunnyside. mittee,

ancouver), the Bishop}

j
ae

q

Big, all-out effort of the local Rotary Club
and Rotary Anns to raise funds for their
community service projects was given a
tremendous assist on Saturday, October
20, when Rotary member, Bill Walton,
|gave all profits of his service station for
the day to club members who donned

mm in

President John Hunter and Rotary Ann Pre-
sident, Mrs. Rodger Talbot.

well in Scottish costume,
(right front), and Charlie
from right,

Harold Davis /

female impersonators.

Dyking Delegation jblems.
} Last winter the Provincial

|\Goes To Victoria Government indicated its will-

A seven-man delegation will !gness to pay one half of the
Ro to Victoria on the night of SOSt of the survey, estimated
October 29 to meet with the )t0 be approximately $30,000,
Premier and his cabinet re- | ye rear
garding the Dyking and Drain- Co: i

ing of the Serpentine and/ mee Prepares
Nicomell Rivers Incorporation Report

, Members of the delegation A detailed report now be-
|which will represent the Sur- ing prepared by the local In-
poration Committee will’ soon
be presented at public meet-
ings throughout the munici-
pality.

All meetings will be held
prior to the Décember elec-
tions, when an
vote will be taken on the in-
corpation of White Rock,

The local
Commi

is

To Sponser
Tea

well as Langley City and the

_ Langley
ity and Don McGotigan, En- |
gineer. A representative from |

a aa ee

| (Whalley

cees the delayed United Good |
Neighbour
got under way this week. Forty |canvassers
volunteers, some i :
jother local organizatio
commence the canvy:
|the leadership of Jayce

between Bergstrom Road and
Pacific Highw
Serpentine River
ity cars. Seen In picture (centre), is Rotary |der

4 Enlivening the |\drive aré: Mrs,
day’s events were (left front), Geordie Cald-|Smith, who will captain two|the door prize for the Ele=

Caldwell third |Slaughte:
| John
Garner's Studio | Scriven:
.. |Vic Kerr; Mrs. M. B. Sanford; | with pre-school children
|\Mrs, Ross Dougla: Se
Mrs. Ross Coulson; Mrs. Ruth |High School Auditorium,
Johnson who will also take on/3.30 pim, to 5.30 pm,
two sections; Mrs. Paul Star- school
ek; Mrs. J, Geissinger; Mrs. }trom 7
Ray Stewart;
Len Parker; Len Strobel,
Prior;
Shortman;
Gordon Furze;
Evans and George Cook,

Garner's Studio

(Rt, Rev. Godfrey P. Gower, procession came the Church
D.D.), the Chancellor of the wardens of Holy Trinity—
Diocese (Mr. W. H. S. Dixon, Messrs. W. P. Bishop (Rec-
Vancouver), the  Bishop’s ‘tor’s) and H. C. Cooke (Peo~
- Canon T. F. W. ple’s)—and the Rector of the
South Burnaby), Church.
G, W. Hillary, Rural When the clergy and offi-
New Westminster cials had taken their places in. t
G. . Pattison, the Chancel and Sanctuary, i
n of Yale (Mission), the Bishop offerd Prayers for
(White Rock), N. the purpose of the service.
(Abbotsford), T. E. The Chancellor of the Dio-
(Langley), B, Milton ces read the “Sentence of Con- a
ardis), K. W. Mason (Cloy- Sécration”” which the Bishop
erdale), D. F. Belway (Agas- signed and handed over to the
siz), J. E. W. Phelps (Cres- custody of the Registrar. The
cent), A. S. Partington (Cloy- |Bishop then made the formal
erdale), and F. W. Sharman |act of Consecration, tracing on
(Ladner). At the end of the | (Continued on Back Page)

Forty Canvassers

tart UGN Drive Hi

Sparked by the local Jay-}

Dean of

Rural De:
Berry

Chairman Stan also empha-
sized that a willingness on the
funds! part of residents to meet the
cheerfully and)
@}give what they can will

enormously assist in making
the drive a success.
| The campaign is due to
close November 3.

Kinsmen Make Plans
To Keep Halloween ;

Safe and Sane

; A brand-new bicycle will be
K. Neville- offered for the fifth year as

Drive for

cam- |
paign chairman, Stan Evans.
Whole area to be covered,
divided into 40 sections, lies

and from the
to the bor-

Assisting in the door-to-door

ions; Bill Walton; Mrs. W.|mentary School at the annual
Mrs, S. F. Stewart; |Kinsmen's Shell-out party! on

Atkinson; Mrs. Ted! October 31. ‘

Mrs. Byrl Darling:} Three parties are

Mr. and}semble at the Sem!
tary
Alex Powell;
Ross
Fred Binning; Joe

Jim Baxter; Mrs.
Mrs, Stan:

Martin L. Deacon, who hasjof ¢

offered to take in the money /ti
at the Bank of Comm 4

have charge of the downt
White Rock canvass.
wishing to make thei

all-Surrey | Bank