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THE SIDNEY AND ISLANDS REVIEW AND SAANICH GAZETTE,

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FEBRUARY 13, 1919

Page five

Food Crop Estimate \
Exceeds Past Records

NHW YORK, Feb. 8—The Internation-
al institute of Agriculture estimates the
1918 production of wheat in Spain, United
Kingdom, Italy, Luxemberg, Netherlands,
Switzerland, Tunis, Egypt, British India,
Japan, Canada and United States at 2,-
029,000,000 bushels. This is 18 per cent.
more than the crop of 1917 and seven per
cent. more than the average of the five
years ending with 1916. Rye was 31 per
cent. more than the average of the five
years ending with 1916. Barley shows
an increase of nine per cent., oats, threa
per cent., sugar beets nine per cent., to-
bacco four per cent., and linseed twenty
per cent. above preceding years. Potatoes
were but ninty per cent. and corn cighty-
seven per cent. of the 1917 crop.

THE RETURN FROM GERMANY

of Colonel R. ©. Bond, D. S. O., Yorkshire
Light Infantry, recalls an extraordinary
episode. He was officially reported killed
at the Battle of Le Cateau in August,
1914, and a memorial service was held at
Bath Abbey. He was, however, alive,
though in internment in Saxony, and the
Method in which he got the news through
Was ingenious. Colonel Bond and five oth-
er Officers, anxious to let friends know
conceived the idea of offering to subscribe
to the German Red Cross fund. The offer
being accepted, a cheque was drawn on
Cox’s Bank, jointly signed by all six. It
was the receipt of the cheque in London
which enabled Cox’s fo notify the relations
the whereabouts of the officers. Colonel
Bond and his companions were toured in
Germany for three days in a German train
of triumph, flagged, and garlanded. Dur-
ing this tour the captives received neither
food nor water, while all the time they
were subjected to the insults of the pop-
ulace. =

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Place Your Order Immediately for Seed
Corn (Northwestern Dent Variety).
Most suitable variety for this district
All inquiries to Secretary Saanichton, B.C.

Gannch Would Send

Enemy Aliens Home

PROPOSED POLICE CHANGES AND LO-
| WAGE CONDITIONS TAKE
UP MOST OF TIME OF SAAN-
a ICH COUNCIL

ich at a meeting called for February 22
by the Great War Veterans to arrange

for a demonstration in May next. Reeve
Jones and Councillor Graham will speak
for Saanich at the meeting called by the
Women's Institutes on Thursday at the

Comrades’ rooms.

Permission will be granted for the can-
cellation of subdivision plans affecting the
area between the Saanich road and Swan
Lake and also concerning a portion of
the Knight estate on Tolmie Road. Wood-
ley Road will no longer be a private street,
the council passing a subdivision plan
which deeds to the municipality the forty-
foot-wide right-of-way occupied by the
road. 5

The vacant house at the corner of Bay
Road and Shelbourne Street will be sola
by auction at 3 o’clock next Saturday af-
ternoon, Assessor Sewell being instructed
by the Council to conduct the sale on the
site.

Would Deport Aliens

A copy of the anti-alien resolution re-
cently passed by the Vancouver Council
Was considered, and the Council passed a
similar resolution, Councillors Dooley,
Watson and Terrell saying that it was
the desire of the returning soldiers that
enemy aliens should not be allowed to
work when fighting men may be in need
of every post available and that deport-
ation of enemy aliens to their native
lands was logical under such circum-
stances.

A forecast of big national expenditures
on road making during the coming year
was contained in a letter from Mr. J. G.
MelIntosh, M.P., in which he stated that
it was probable that the Ganadian Nation-
al Highway would soon become a reality
through the comoletion of the sections at
present only planned.

The proposal of the unification of all
the police forces in the province, which is
being advocated by. Mr. G. G. McGeer,
M.P.P., was considered by the Council ti
be too important a subject on which to
pass a hasty judgment. It was felt that
while the scheme would be valuable in
so far as the criminal work of the police-
men was concerned, ther6é was every poss-
ibility that the enforcement of local by-
laws would suffer under its operation.
Councillor -Henderson then moved that
the whole question be left up to the jude-
ment of the member for Saanich in the
Provincial House, saying that it would do
entirely away with the democratic élec-
tion of police commissioners and substi-
tute bureau control.

The Reeomstruction Committee wrote
the Couneil asking that the vacancies
which occur in the municipal staff shall
be as far as possible filled by returned
soldiers, that,all men who went overseas

shall be reinstated in their posts on their

return, and that as large a programme

of public works as possible shall be under-
taken during fhe present year. These re-
quests were passed Over for the consider-
ation of the Works Committee.
Wants Bigher Wage Scale

Councillor Dooley asked that Saanich
take a lead in raising the pay of its employ-
e6es by making the scale $4 a day for la-
borers and other classes in proportion. He
Was greatly shocked to hear that the seale
in Saanich had been 50 cents per day low-
er than that prevailing in the city, and a
suggestion that Saanich should delay a
decision until the city had first made its
new scale public was not at all to his lik-
ing. “Don’t let’s wait and see, let’s do it
as a generous and right action. A man
can’t live on such a wage as you are
paying.” he exclaimed. Reeve Jones
agreed that some action would have to
be taken, as he greatly doubted whether
Saanich could get workers unless higher
higher wager were paid. The question
was then referred to the Works Gommit-
tee.

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DAILY MOTOR SERVICE

Between Sidney and Way Points

CALLING AT ALL STATIONS EN ROUTE AND PICKING UP FREIGHT AND
FARCELS BOTH WAYS

HOUSE DELIVERY
Service Now Effective

VICTORIA PARCELS AND FREIGHT TO BE LEFT

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ORDERS AND SMALL PARCELS MAY BE LEFT WITH THE SIDNEY RE-
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Misses' and D & A Corsets at
Winter Coats
Raincoats

Slightly Soiled Muslin and Voile Dress

es for girls 2
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LESS 10 PER CENT. OFF ALL OUR NEW INFANTS’ COATS, DRESSES,
HOODS, BARRICOATS, HTC.
SWEATERS AND SWEATER COATS REDUCED FOR MONDAY SELLING

- Special loine of Bath Towels clearing, each 25¢

MILLINERY GREATLY REDUCED TO CLEAR

to 8 years. All greatly

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COURT OF REVISION

A Court of Revision and Appeal under
the provisions of the “Taxation Act’? and
“Taxation Act Amendment Act, alfa ee
and “Taxation Act Amendment Act, 1918,”
and “Public Schools Act,” Tepresenting the
assessment rolls for the year 1919, for
the above district, will be held at the Sia-
ney Hotel, Sidney, B. G., on Tuesday, the
18th day of February, 1919, at 12 o-clock
in the forenoon.

Dated at Victoria, B.C. this 27th day
of January, 1919.

THOS. S. FUTCHER,
Judge of the Court of Revision and Appeal.

POUND DISTRICT ACT

Whereas under the provisions of this
Act, application has been made to the
Lieutenant-Governor in Council, to con-
stitute as a Pound District all that Jana
comprising the whole of North Saanich
District as shown on the official map
thereof and bounded on the South by the
3 West, North Saanich District (which
South boundaries of Sections One, Ranges
1, 2, 3 and 4 Hast and Ranges 1, 2, and
boundaries comprise the North boundary
of the Municipality of South Saanich) and
bounded on the North, Bast and West by
the Shorline, excluding the area of the
existing Pound District, in the ¥icinity ox
Sidney, as constituted by Order in CGoun-
cil, dated 7th August, 1913.

Notice is hereby given that, thirty days
after the publication of this notice, the
Lieutenant-Governor in council will pro-
ceed to comply with the application, un-
less within the said time, objection is
made by eight proprietors within such
proposed pound district, in From A. of
the Schedule to the said Act, to the under-
signed.

E. D. BARROW,
Minister of Agriculture.
Dept. of Agriculture,
Victoria, B. G.,
Feb. 1, 1919.

DOMINION WOOL OUTPUT
The value of Canada’s wool production
is given in an estimate prepared by the
Dominion Buraeu of Statistics as $3,360,-
000 in 1915, $4,440,000 in 1916, and $7,-
000,000 in 1917.

CANADA'S DAIRY PRODUCTS

Canada produced in 1915 $45,000,000
worth of dairy butter; in 1916 $47,000,-
000 worth, and in 1917 the butter produc-
tion rose to a value of $103,072,000, ac-
cording to an estimate made by the Do-
minion Bureau of Statistics, which gives
also the value of Canada’s production of
whole milk for 1915, at $49,245,000, for
1916 at $42,986,000, and for 1917 at $55,-
000,000.

HAPPINESS
Let it be our happiness this day to add
to the happiness of those around us, and to
comfort some sorrow.—€hanning.

ATLANTIC SHAL HUNT
The current report of the Wisheries
Branch of the Department of Naval Sery-—
ice shows that the seal hunt in the Gult of
St. Lawrence in 1917 resulted in the cap-
ture of 31,145 hair seals against 28,227
in the preceding year.

Street Lighting Fund

ENTERTAINMENT
Berquist Hall, Feb. 26

Program Includes the Great
Musical Sketch

The Washerwoman
f and the

Stag Party

Or Sidney in 1913
Dont Fail to Sée the Washerwoman
SHE’S A SCREAM ~

No. 70--“SIT STRATE”

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“SIT-STRATE” is a machine any wo-
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THE NEW SEWING MACHINE STORE
718 YATES ST.—Phone 638—VICTORIA

PHYSICIAN

DR. D. BLACK, Physician and Surgeon,
311 Jones Building, Victoria. Phone 335.
Oiice hours: 2 to 5 p.m.

FOR SALE—Few tons Timothy and
Clover Hay, $40 a ton; will deliver any
Quantity over half a ton any place in
North Saanich. Geo. B. Mclean, Sidney.
Phone 53 L. : :

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734 Broughton St., Victoria, B. CG.
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Chinese Merchant and Labour
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TEPHONE 22 '

FORTHE
BOYS

D. W. POUPARD, The Fruit
Specialist, wants you to know that
he is sending hundreds of Boxes
of B. C. Apples to the people in

SIDNEY

England and to the Boys in
France. It’s a great suecess—
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Spection and is packed ‘“Bruise-
proof’’—one box travelled 100
days, to Salonica, arriving in fine .
shape e tyle Co
Prices— (Post Paid)
: ss Tt used to be that a cold meant at least two weeks of discomfort by
TO FRANCE—$1.25 sneezing, snuffing, sore throat and coughing, with the possibility of if merg-
TO ENGLAND $1.75 ing into chronic bronchitis or acute pneumonia. Such colds were looked upon
as unavoidable.
TO ITALY... .$2.00
TO PALESTINE $2.00 NEW STYLE COLD
OfF Parcels to order
Nowadays, when a warning sneeze or sense of dryness in the throat or
- — nose indicates the approach of a cold, an effective cold remedy is taken and
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Any regular $25 OVERCOAT or colored SUIT
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Any regular $30 OVERCOAT or colored SUIT in
the store, any $2.25 Gloves or Shirt, $1.50
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Any regular $35 OVERCOAT or colored SUIT in
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