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Resampled001B6E8A '..'l 9f =S..'A:'ll 'Ii l:IIII'S A Weekly Newspaper Circulatiugiff the District of West Vaucouver-Ambleside, Hollyburff, Westoff, Du~a/araYJe $ 1.00 per year. CyPreSS Park, Caulfei!d, Whyterliff, L~tC Newsstands Gc per Copy Vol. II EIGHT PAGES HOLLYBURN P.O., WEST VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17th, 1928 ~ No. 46 REGULAR MEETING OF BOARD OF TRADE NEXT MONDAY The monthly meeting of the West Vancouver Boar&i of Trade will be held next Monday at S p.m. in the Legion rooms. The meeting of the council of the board last IVednesday was well attended and several mat- ters of interest discussed there will be brought up at the meeting next Monday. It is hoped that every membe! will make a special point of being out for this meeting. CEMETERY BOARD ASKS I"OR $2,000.0il The cemetery board have ad- vised i,he council that the anti- cipated deficiency in meeting sinking fund, interest and oper- ation charges for the ensuing year would be approximately $2,000, which would be required by '1st June, and have asked them to make provision in the estimated for this &sum. The question was laid over for the estimates. ESTIMATES AND TAX SAI.E LANDS BEFORE COUNCIL 0 WATER POPOVER OF "ALOUETTE LAKE" BEING DEVELOPED With the completion of the new automatic power plant at Alone&to, ihc British Columbia Electric Rail- way will add 12,500 h.p. to its hydro-electric system on the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. This new additional power source has ncccssitatcd an cxpcnditurc of approximately 22,000,000. &Vork on the construction of the new Alouciic power plant has be n in progress since the early part of 1924, and is now practicaBy completed. The construction of the tunnel, erection of the dam and building of the power house have now been finished io all intents and purposes, and the installation of the generating machinery is oleo nearing completion. The new power plant is located about twenty-five miles duc east o." Vancouver, The nearest point on either roadway or railway was Hancy, and the first work to be undertaken by the company after deciding to develop the water power of Aloucttc Lakes was to establish the ncccssary transportation communication. A tunnel has been driven from Aloucttc Lakes to the Stave River and a dam built to raise the level of the lakes to permit the necessary diversion and to increase thc storage capacity. The new plant will commence supplying power to the Lower hlainland of British Columbia in a fcw more weeks, and will be hut a further indication of the confidence which the British Columbia Electric Rail- way Company hax in the future of this province. COiNSERVATIVES TO HOLD ANNUAL 31EETIiVG The IVest Vancouver Conser- vative Association will hold their annual general meeting next Thursday, 23rd inst., at 8 p.m., in Ambleside Haik The election of officers of the association for the coming year will take place, and a number of matters rela- tive to the welfare of the asso- c:ation will come up for discus- sion, also the question of the probal&le provincial election next June. C. M. O'Brian, vice-pres- ident of the Central Conserva- tive Association in Vancouver. ivill be the special speaker. Every member is requested to make u special point of being present. ALL STREETS 1iVTERSECTliVG DRIVE TO BE "STOP" STREETS The police commission sent in a letter to the council on Mon- day night suggesting, on the re- commendation of Chief Squires, that a bylaw be introduced mak- ing all streets intersecting Ma- rine Drive "stop" streets. The council instructed the municipal solicitor to prepare the necessary bylaw. The council is holding a meet- ing tonlight (Fridfly) at 7:30 o'lock, for the purpose of dis- cussing estimates and the ques- tion of tax sale lands. It is ex- pected at this meeting that the mill rate will be struck. WATERBED BEING TESTED FOR TUNNEL Building Shows Signs of Activity Evidence accumulates that 1928 is to be a banner year for West Vancouver. It is rumored that a building to contain two stores and living. quarters is to be erected on the south side of Marine Drive immediately east of the Royal Bank building, and it is said that the construction of another store building is con- templated in the same district. A number of houses are in course of construction in various parts of the municipality. Permits have been taken out this month for a $3800 house at 25th and Lawson, and for an- other $3500 home at 17th and Gordon, as well as for several others for smaller amounts. The Hollyburn Pacific Ski Club is putting on a cross-coun- try run on Hollyburn Ridge next Sunday. Last Sunday week, at the jumping competition on the ridge, there were a large crowd of spectators, and it is expected that, with fine weather, an even greater number of people will be there to watch the runners. The police have asked us to give notice that any person rid- ing a bicycle on the sidewalks will be prosecuted. This prac- tice has become somewhat gen- eral of late, and one Dundarave boy ivas fined last week in the police court for this o'fense. The youth of the district should take particular note Testing of the waterbed on the North Shore at the Lions Gate, in connection with the pro- posed pressure tunnel to carry submarin'e mains, has not yet revealed suitable conditions for such a tunnel, it is reported. The work has cost approximately $30,000. Commissioner E. A. Clevdland of the )water board has been given authority to drill two more test holes east of First Narrows. CONTRACTORS ARE GIVEN EXTENSION The council at their special meeting on Monday night grant- ed Bartholomew, Montgomery & Co., the contractors for the Queen's avenue pipeline, an ex- tension of time up to 15th April to complete their contract. Number Your House West Vancouver last year grew faster by actual statistics than any other part of Greater Vancouver, and according to present indications the year 192S will witness even greater gains here. The greatest difficulty ivhich faces every new and groiv- ing municipality is the problem of providing those improve- ments ivhich in these days are held to be necessities ivithout unduly increasing the general tax rate. The difficulty is ahvays particularly acute in the case of municipalities ivhich are adjacent to a large city, because prospective residents demand every city convenience before they consent to be- come residents, and these conveniences cost money, as we in West Vancouver are &veil aware. There is one convenience, however, which costs very little. and ivhich, taking it by and large, ive have not yet attained to, and that is numbered houses. A few of our residents have number signs &,n their front don&a, but they are ve!9 much the exception. So far, we have been content to havo the location of our houses designated by their proximity to some street intersection. It does not matter ivhat point of the compass they occupy from the intersection or the side of the street on ivhich they are located. Throughout the municipality in ni&xst cases all the houses in an1 particular block are designated, for example, as at 17th and Fulton, or 27th and Bellevue, or 12th and Duchess. That is the address given in the directories, and that is all the information a stranger can get ivhen he asks particulars about any par- ticular address he may be seeking. The effcct of such a haphazard methoil on the stranger from the city or any up-to-date district needs very little imagi- nation. Ficmember that most probably it is his fnist intro- duction to the municipality, and he is apt to conic to the conclusion, an&i rightly so, that everything in the district is run in the same slipshod fashion. This impression will be heightened it'e has to go up and doivn a block ringing the doorbells of twenty or more difl'erent houses and disturbing a like number of householders before he fin&ls the particular aiklress he is after. There are feiv of us resiilcnts, even, ivho know ivell more than a feiv of the sections of our fifteen-mile district, «nd, (Continued on Page Eight.) Spring Approaches February is more than half over. Spring is not very far away. The weather this month has been very mild, and all indications point to an unusually early spring. The Indians say so, and they are seldom wrong. The birds and animals act so, and they never make any mistakes in such a matter, where mistakes spell starvation and death. The robins and blue jays have been back for some weeks, and recently the seals passed up the B. C. coast a full month ahead of the usual time to their breeding grounds on the islands north of us. Violets and snowdrops and the crocuses are above the ground in our gardens, and the daffodil plants are grow- ing again after their long winter sleep. Last year we had very little summer, altI!ough we were more fortunate than the old country, where they had no summer at all. It looks now, though, as if nature is going to make up to us in 1928 for her niggardliness in 1927 in the matter of warm sunshine, and there is every prospect of a long summer ahead of us. This brings before us the matter of our gardens and boulevards. While it may appear to many somewhat early for them, still the frost is out of the ground and, with little likelihood of any more severe weather, we have an opportunity of turning over our flower beds and get- ting them ready for the summer's activities. tVest Van- couver has always been justly celebrated for its flowers and gardens, and our residents, backed by the Horticultural So- ciety, have year by year worked hard to beautify this beau- tiful part of Greater Vancouver. That they have been suc- cessful in their efforts is proved by the prizes they have won in competition with the people of other localities.. Nothing renders a place so attractive as well-kept gardens and boulevards. This coast is celebrated for its tlowers, and people from other parts of Canada view with envy and admi- ration the roses that bloom so profusely in Greater Vancouver. IVith the evidences that are accumulating of an old-fashione&l summer, our residents will do well to begin their preparations now for getting their gardens in order for planting time. ESTIBIATES FOR SCHOOLS $54,300 The school board wrote the council on 13th February stat- ing that, in submitting estimates for 1928 for $54,800, it was their intention, if a bylaw is prepared for the construction of school buildings, to include in such by- law the items of school grounds, $2,200, and equipment, $ 1,G00, making a total of $3,800. The council passed a resolu- tion on Monday night that the estimates be approved, subject to the school board's letter of 13th inst. BUII.DING BYLAIV TO BE REVISED Councillor Watt gave notice at Mon&lay night's council meet- ing that at the next regular meeting he intemlc&1 to move that the buikling bylaiv as drawn up in 192G, with such amend- ments as may be found n&lvis- able. be adopted after the coun- cil has ha&1 an opportunity of rc- vieivlllg it. BICYCLE RIDERS SKI RUN ON RIDGE SUNDAY MUST STAY OV ROAD