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Resampled001B6EB1 I I ~ .'..'le 'l(f VS ..'.~..:.'ll.:.'ll (" A Weekly Newspaper Ci rculati fJgi n $1:00 per year. the District of West Vancouver-Ambleside, R0llyburn, Cypress Park, Caulfeild, Whytecliff, Etc. Westorf, Du ndarave Newsstands 5c per Copy Vol. II EIGHT PAGES HOLLYBURN P.O., WEST VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, MARCH 16th, 1928 ~ No. 50 BOARD OF TRADE 51EETS ON MONDAYMunicipal LandsISoldBuilding By-Law to Stand The first sale of municipal lands was made last Monday when L. E. Langley paid $800 for 24 lots forming the N.W.&/4 of D. L. 1085. This property is adjacent to other owned by Mr. Langley. The terms of the sale call for cancellation of the sub- division, so that it will revert to acreage. The closing of the deal is provisional upon the purchas- er paying a further $48, being the taxes for 1928 plus the cost of conveyancing add registra- tion. The monthly meeting of the Board of Trade will be held next Monday at 8 p.m. in the Can- adian Legion Rooms, Ferry building. It is specially request- ed that all members be present. The Council met last Wednes- day when several matters to be brought before the general meet- ing were discussed. Chairman of Membership Committee, H. A. Osborne, reports several new members joined. The building committee met at 8 p.m. last Friday in the mu- nicipal hall to revise the build- ing bylaw. It was felt, however, that the bylaw would have to undergo a considerable amunt of overhauling and revision to make it harmonize with the ex- isting zoning bylaw. Further- more, the committee being prac- tical men and busy at this sea- son, preferred to postpone taking up the question until the autumr. more especially because they thought such revision would be too late for the 1928 construction season. A report to this effect was made to the counCil. Ambleside Park to be Extended W. P. WOODS SUCCESSFUL IN TENDER FOR CLEAR- ING SCHOOL GROUNDS The council is calling for tend- ers for the work of clearing 400 feet of Ambleside Park accord- ing to specifications of the muni- cipal engineer. Tenders are to be in by noon Monday 26th of March. The tenders for clearing, grub- bing and grading (First unit) playground at lnglewood School came before the Board of School Trustees at their meeting last night. The W. P. Woods tender of $1488 being accepted. Tenders were as follows: W. P. Woods................$ 1488.00 J. S. Morton ................ 1848.00 K. Sogoff ................... 1890.00 P. A. Andrews ........... 1945.00 J. A. McLeod ............ 2500.00 H. P. Tearoe .............. 2592.45 The police commission wrote the council suggesting that the Trades License Bylaw be revis- ed owing to the fact that some of the fees are out of date and some trades have not been spe- cifically dealt with. The matter was referred to the clerk and chief of police. CANNERY ASK GRAVEL FOR ROAD The Great Northern Cannery at Sherman applied to the coun- cil to use a portion of the gravel from the municipal gravel pit situated adjacent to the cannery. They propose to put same on a short road running from Marine Drive to the bay. Immediately west of the cannery they have already bedded in sleepers and placed 3x12 planking on top for rumvay, and the gravel would augment the roadway. The council granted the appli- cation subject to the municipal engineer's approval of the place from which tn . material is to be taken. School Sites~Wanted ~ CEMETERY BOARD APPOINTED A board of cemetery trustees for 1928-1929 was appointed by the council on Monday night, such board to hold office until the first regular meeting of the council in 1929. The following are the names of those appoint- ed: Reeve V. V. Vinson, Coun- cillor J. T. Watt, Councillor Wil- liam Blair, Albert Chilton and George Hay. It was further decided that future elections for the board be held at the first regular meet- ing of the council in each year instead of at the first regular meeting in March. The Board of School Trustees invite offers of land suitable for School sites of 5 acres more or less and not exceeding 6% grade. Offers must be in hands of Sec- retary Garland (Holyburn P.O.) not later than 5 p. m. on Wed- nesday, March 21st. First Hole-in-One at Gleneagles'inks Government to Share ~ Cost of Road RepairsThe honor o fmaking the first"hole in one" on the Gleneagles Golf course has fallen to Mr. A. T. Finnie, a resident of West Vancouver. This difficult feat was recently accomplished at the seventh hole while playing a round with his father, Mr. T. Finnie and is verified by Mr. Jock Glen the professional at the links. Since last season many improvements have been made to the links, many "lost ball" patch- es have been cleared and tile drain laid in No, 1, 2, 4 and 5 fairways. Several new applica- tions have been made for mem- bership and there is every indi- cation that the club activities will become an important factor in the social life of the commun- ity . An inspection of Marine drive, from IVest Bay to Whyteciiff, will be made by a Provincial Gov- ernment engineer shortly, it was announced at a meeting of the Council Monday night. Reeve V. V. Vinson reported that the government is willing to bear a portion of the cost of widening and hard-surfacing of that section of the highway, and it is likely that a bylaw will be submitted shortly to provide for the work. Council Make Sinking Fund Investments . The Royal Financial Corpora- tion made an offer to the coun- cil to exchange $ 134,136 Domin- ion of Canada 4 per cent. Per- petuals at 88.50 for $132,678 Dominion of Canada 3 per cent. G, T. P.'s at 76.02 and $ 18,201 Province of B. C. 4 per cent. P. G. E. at 98.75 and $124.93 cash. The offer was accepted. Victor W. Odium & Co. offer- ed for sinking fund investment West Vancouver bonds $ 1,000 5 per cent. due 1953 and $500 5 per cent. due 1962, both at prices to yield 4.85 per cent. The coun- cil decided to accept the offer provided it was still open. TO DIPROVE THE WATER SERVICE In regard to Brothers'reek water area it was pointed out at the council meeting that the present act did not provide for raising money for improvements aml, as the council had been con- sidering a proposal for a $100,- 000 bylaw for a &vater main a- long Marine Drive, the munici- pal solicitor said that such a by- law could not be submitted be- cause it would cmiflict with an act put into force in 1920. The matter &vould thvrefore have to stand in abeyance until an a- mendment to the act &vas obtain- ed. Soils itol'obsoll ives in- structed to take the necessary steps to have the act amemled, but, as the parliamentary session is almost over. it will be some time before this can be dne. 51eantime methods of improving tile sei'vice would be considered. Gen. McRae ImprovingAi. ~ General A. D. McRae, M.P., for this federal riding, fell on the icy pavement outside the Parlia- icy pavement outside the Hous- es of Parliament on Monday and suffered a badly fractured skull. kIis condition is serious, but he appears to be making good pro- gress. his temperature, pulse, an&i respiration being normal. TO MAKE BUILDING LIN E UNIFOR51 The council at their meeting on Monday night had before them the question of an amend- ment to the Town Planning Act by way of the establishment of a building line in blocks where one-third of the lots have al- ready been built on a uniform line. The matter was referred to the municipal solicitor. Litigation which prevented ex- Councillor Ray from taking a trip to Europe last fall was final- ly settled this week in Mr. Ray's favor after having gone through several courts. Mr. Ray was en- tirely successful in obtaining judgment for full damages. L Police Commissioners. -- Ask By-Law Revision Town Planning We are accustomed to regard town planning as one of the latest developments of our present day civilisation. Actually, there is nothing new about it. It is, however, a practice which is far more universally followed nowadays than in the past. The time to adopt a town planning scheme is, of course, when a municipality first comes into being, or as soon after as it is possible to do so. To adopt town planning schemes after a place has been in existence a number of years, the centre de- veloped and the suburbs more or less laid out according to the individual plans of the numbers of subdivisions of which it is composed, is frequently a costly proceeding. In the case of most of our larger cities it has only been possible to apply town planning ideas to the more unsettled portions which are just about to develop. In Vancouver, however, an effort is being made to apply a town planning scheme in the centre and westerly portion of the city. Although we have now adopted town planning, West Van- couver had prov ouzly been laid out in gridiron formation,which was not the best suited to the contours of the land. 1IIarine Drive and the avenues running parallel to it on both sides are entirely correct, but, in view of the steep slope from north to south leading up to the ridge, cross streets should have been made to curve diagonally up the slope and not follow a north and south line as most of them do now. Not only has the present arrangement of the streets resulted in considerable unnecessary climbing on the part of those using them, but the beautiful views of English Bay and Hollyburn Ridge are largely lost by the residents of our streets. The natural and proper orientation of the front and rear of houses in West Vancouver should be as near to north and south as it is pos- sible to make them. Last year re-contour plans were made of one or two sec- tions of our municipality, which was distinctly a step in the right direction. It will probably, however, be impossible by reason of the expense to materially alter the more settled portions of 1Vest Vancouver. The westerly end on the other hand has only just started to develop, and at present there are in a number of sections scarcely any roads except Marine Drive. Here is our best chance to apply town planning ideas successfully and at little cost. There are quite a number of places where the land rises somewhat abruptly and where roads could be terraced one above the other with their easterly and westerly ends curving gradually down to the Drive. In this way property could be built upon which at present looks unapproachable, and such sections would become the choicest residential parts of the district. Not only would the residents of such sections have wonderful views of mountain and sea and forest but West Vancouver would present from the sea the same charm as Torquay or the Riviera, where the lay of the land largely cor- responds to that which obtains here. Co-operation The message which experience and the history of human progress dictates is that all our efforts should be bent in the direction of creating and spreading a spirit of co-operation. This lies at the foundation of all progress, whether material or intellectual. When civilization begins to slip, it is the only doctrine with power to arrest. At the end of a bitter struggle, no matter how prolonged or bloody, both victor and vanquished are forced to return to this spirit and the one that hesitates suffers in the end. The victor in the treaty that brought the Franco-Prussian iver to a close in 1871 became the vanquished in 1918. IVhen we have lost our tempers, lashed ourselves into a rage and finally stand with our victim lying prostrate at our fe'et, consolation is sought in an attempt to console, con- ciliate and keep the object of our revenge, and when we make a retrospect of what we have accomplished in life, the accum- ulation of &vealth and the possession of an education bring satisfying reflections only in so far as these have been or may be the means of helping others. We should give this help by assisting and instructing the rising generation to develop a spirit of co-operation and by thus doing we are bound to prac- tise the spirit ourselves. Selfishness and mdifference towards the rights of others lie at the root of all crime; and as the spirit of co-operation develops these disappear. In its &videst usage "co-operation" means the creed that life may best be ordered, not by the competition of individuals, where each seeks the interest of himself and his family, but by mutual help; by each individual striving for the good of the social body of which he forms part. and the social body in return caring for each individual. Each for all and all for each is its accepted motto. A careful study of the lives of successful men and women of the present or the past generation reveals the fact that their success &vas not due to the accumulation of wealth, if this happened at all it was incidental. Nor was their success &lue to the fact that they possessed a university education, because the great majority of successful men and &vomen were &vithout such training. It &vas &lue to a kindly disposition that experi- ence&i most pleasure in the good-will and esteem of their feilo&v men, carne&i by reason of their thoughtful consideration uf others. 4