Weanceday, petember 29, 1954. SAANICH PENINSULA AND GULF ISLANDS REVIEW PAGE SEVEN me es ante mene ee te ee te nce ee ees eee nine eee — ee enn on renee, Deacon marks 80th birthday on, Report of Capital Region Planning | phone exchanges. Colwood Park {erence to laying of cable. Chatter- 5 | MORE ABOUT ‘Mayne Island. Chatterton an-| Board rouses wide interest as fu- {Association announces plans to|ton withdraws - resignation and ~ : Vise arde eCner it ; 1954 _ ,nounces resignation from Saanich /ture of district is assessed. Sewer i Spend $100,000 on race track in | agrees to further term.on Saanich =. (Continued From Page Four) | School District board of trustees. | job nears end as only final fittings | North Saanich. Campbell plan. is | School Board. Liquor vote planned..." Notes From Saanickton Experimental Station ble ee ee ee ee ne |) 6 NOV, = 24: Delegation presents ; await installation. ‘endorsed by Coast Ferries’ Ltd. | early in new year.in Saanich elec--. A review - of the weather records | that the long. season crops, notably ‘land proves popular with bridal | hospital . petition to minister of Dec. 8: Death of former local | Galiano Light and Power Co. mark | toral district. ‘ Selwyn: Fox, son. of”: ae “for the past season shows,.as even | corn, tomatoes and the brassicas | couples. Fire rates ‘are reduced in; health. in Victoria, signed by 71.22.| M.L.A., Maj.-Gen. -W. W. Foster, : is |:fifth anniversary. Road. ‘goes | Cominissioner Harold. ‘Fox, of. Sid- eo the most casual observers would | were able to. benefit handsomely, | Brentwood following Pickles’ drive : per cent of cligible voters. New| widely mourned. Weather office re- | through at Pender island ready for | ney, gains $1,250, scholarship: Lan. ve surmise, a number of. off-average | and grew well without much water. in the matter. J. D. Helps is re- | Wednesday delivery of mail insti- | ports November wettest on record. | new bridge. Credit Union is organ-'| mont calls for action in. flooding’. features. These help to account, in | ing at a time when all too often | ted to seat on Saanich Schoo! | tuted at Salt Spring Island. Heavy | Central ‘Saanich Chamber of Com- | ized at Pender Island with 27 in- | problems at Island“ View ‘Beach. - jarge measures, for the results you | these subjects are suffering from ' District board of- trustees. New ty rain brings two inches in one .day. merce visualize construction of new | itial. members. ; Beaver Point power’ line installa. ate we have found in the garden. -, | a.lack of good irrigation. 7 branch: ‘of: Bank of Montreal - is me and.Mrs.. George Rennie life. hospital to serve Saanich ofa | Dec.. 22:. B.C. Electric carry out | tion. cominences with _slearing: as o : In. the’ first. place “the precipita- On‘ the other-hand, ‘the weather | { opened: in Sidney. » {members of Galiano P.-T.A. Saan- | at Brentwood. Capt. Ww. W. Gil- | initial survey of Galiano with ref- } brush for poles. a tion was above the long-term aver-'| was cool, the mean temper ‘ature for: _ Nov. 17; Four. trustees elected to ich. Peninsula Credit Union loans | mour, 92, of Galiano, maintains his. | SS —— aeerrerenenereesanirerra age, totalling for the months, April.|each month being below the lon | Soepene .School board; Mrs. | exceed $90,000. ‘hobby of seamanship despite _ his ‘to September, inclusive, 7.86 inches | term average, except for Sep. | Frank Prior, Mrs. Mervyn Gardner, | Dec. 1: Contract for Pender Bridge | years, O, H. New purchases Gos- | compared with 6.66. inches. This in| tember,. which was just average. | Inspector A..G, Birch, Mrs. A. E. ne to Toe 8 Wile Dalving Co. Bla iD end Nourse resort. School | itself is not so impressive, and } This, coupled with the fact that the ; Scoones. Sidney elementary school : tora, for * 3 46F e a Tnustee Reginai¢ Sinkinson is ze could scarcely account for an ab- | hours of sunshine for every month ‘" Fourth St., no longer in use. is jin Sidney when thieves enter vet- | seated by . acclamation in Saanich. | normal growing season. Since close | were greatly below the average, the ; sold to Sidney Masonic Lodge. Wil- ierans’ club and Sidney Freight | Campbell announces transportation | : ; ‘ an . ‘liston speaks at Ganges. Hodges ! Office. First frost is recrded. Na- | plan. to @ third of the total occurred in} total hours for the six months: ‘heads Galiano Club. Mrs. Annie {tive daughter of Mayne Island, 83-| Dec. 15: Bradley. Watling and | ——~_"' ' 41-year average of 1525.4 hours, re- | | \ Augeat, however, the atieet was | being 1257.6 hours compared to the | ee a ee ee year-old Mrs. Emma Taylor, dies | Baton elected in Sidney. Brown, | | ST — nn = Tin Vancouver. Farmers’ Institute | Peatd and Windsor win in Central | C ANV AS GOODS Tents, Awnings, Sails, Boat = | sulted in greatly delayed maturity | 1on Pender Island withdraws from | Saanich® Ford calls for amalgama- | Covers, Tarpaulins, Truck of the warm season crops such as ; Guilt Islands Improvement Bureau. | tion of Keating and Sidney tele- | | } | | | | || Appointments: 91 to 5 — Estimates Free — Covers, Waterproof Clothing. corn, tomatoes and melons. | F. JEUNE & BRO., LTD. HUMIDITY Another factor was the relative Established 1886) : == | humidity, and we find here that it 779 Johnson St.—Canvas in Stock Up to 10 Feet Wide—4-4632 => [was above average. for June, July, August and September. This made | oe “+ ACROSS FROM BATONS — \ | 1113: DOUGLAS - VICTORIA _ - Phone a. S113 | ! \ l 2 ie PETIT OORT RRR conditions especially favorably for BEFORE BUYING ANY SEWING MACHINE. mf core diseases, including downy | The Kloral Funeral Chapel co Have a Free Home ‘Demonstration on ‘ mildew and neck rot of onions, wilt | Service that embraces the Petinsula E L N A S U P E R M A T I Cc \of melons and late blight in toma- : and Gulf Jslands meeting. all .toes and potatoes. ‘These diseases | problems of transportation ; ELNA SALES and SERVICE “became so severe that ih many! 1400 VANCOUVER STREET - 4-2012 wz Yates St., Victoria, Phone 3-6313 teases they wiped out the crop be- | oa . art \fore it had. a chance to mature. This was especially true of melons and tomatoes. } It is fortunate that such a sea- ‘son comes infrequently. The last '4 ‘bad tomato blight year at the Ex- jf i perimental’ Station, for example, ‘ was in 1948, so if this is any guide, ;f perhaps our tomato crops will. be if CONFIDENCE fhe same confidence you repose in your physician may ‘be placed in our faithful iuliillment of prescriptions with scientific precision. 2 Cords Fir Millwood ...........-. Fert at Broad . if rd 4-196 {safe from this menace,. at least, if 2 Cords Mixed ; Lo MS GH Douglas at View ‘until 1960. Nevertheless, it pays toif < oaq i.) Koa re a ain : 4-2222 | watch the weather, and if the signs ; 7 2 Units. Bulk Sawdust PREFCRUTION Saoine Victoria, B.C. __ [Point in the direction of a disease |} F a! comes