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001C9608 A Wee&.y '.4'ews~a~ej $ 1.00 per year. Cjrculati»gi&& the District of H~est 1~a&&cour&er-A&&&blesicle, Hollyburu, H~esto&&, Du&&clarar&e Cypress Park, Caulfeilcl, Whytecliff, Etc. Vol. II I EIGHT PAGES HOLL&'BURN P.O., %VEST VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19th, 1928 No. 29 The Capilano Bridge Tragedy Board of Trade Discusses Zoning By-Law. The IVest Vancouver Board of Trade held their regular month- ly meeting last AIonday night. The primary purpose of the meeting was to receive the re- port of the special committee ap- pointed to thoroughly go into the various clauses of the Zoning and Building By-laivs. This committee, composed of Messrs. George williamson, George Gourlay and O'. J. Dent, report- ed as follows on Zoning By-law No. 308: Re Zoning Hy-law No. 308. IVe beg to report that:-- lVHEREAS:After due delibera- tion we find that the Zoning By- law is overlapping, is contradic- tory, restrictive, discriminating, unworkable (ref. Clause 4, Zone 1); confiscatory of the rights of the property owners; and is, in our opinion, altogether too dras- tic (more so, even, than Point Grey), and detrimental to the interests of our i1Iunicipality. - THEREFORE:Your select Com- mit te. unanimously recommend that you again ask the Municipal Council to rescind the said By- laiv. It is further recommended that Building Restrictions in force previous to the passing of the Zoning By-law be effective until such time as a more popu- lar and ivorkable Zoning By-law can be drafted. The committe found the build- ing by-law to be entirely satis- factory. A letter was read from Cap- tain Ian i~lackenzie, ~I.P.P., in reference to the obtaining of bet- ter postal facilities in the dis- trict. He said that he under- stood arrangements had been made for a better service, both for incoming and outgoing mails at Hollyburn post office, but that if it was desired to have the mail from this office despatched at a later time in the day, he would recommend that it be done. The early closing of the office, he stated, on Thursday after- noons could be corrected, if it was considered of primary im- portance. As regards additional post boxes, he asked for a report on ivhat additional boxes would be required to meet the situa- tion, when he would make rep- resentations to the authorities. He believed it would be possible to have a net post office, but in order to obtain this it ivould be necessary to submit full data to the minister of public works. Probably, however, a house to house delivery ivould be started iri a short time, which ivould el- iminate the necessity of obtain- ing a net post office. LOCAI REAL EsT~&TE OI'FICES CI.OSF THURS I)A Y AFTERNOONS All real estate offices in IVest Vancouver will, starting this week and continuing throughout the winter, close each Thursday at 1 p. m. An agreement to this end having been made amongst the members of the fraternity. Last Sunday there was what might very well have been s fatal auto accident on the Capilano bridge. Forty feet of rail divas tom away and an auto containing two persons plunged upside down to the bed of the river thirty feet below. 4Vhile the reason for its being built that ivay is not very apparent, the fact remains that the present bridge has a dangerous curve and with its present narrow wooden roadway, presents a grave menace to any traffice using it. The ivonder is, not that the present accident occurre~l, but that many similar ac- cidents have not taken place long ago. This is not the first time iior is it likely to be the last, that the rail on the north side has been smashed. On the last occasion the auto was saved from going over only by the crank case becoming jam- med on the floor of the roadway. There is no use in widening the present crazy structure. Any money spent on it would be absolutely wasted, but it is high time that a decision should be made as to when a new bridge should be built, and the con- struction of it be then immediately proceeded with. It should not be necessary for some fatality to occur, likely as not one of your own family being the victim, before action is taken in the matter. Every fall there is speculation as to whether or not the bridge will be washed away, usually with the pious hope that such an accident will happen. And if it does, and traffic has to be diverted to the Keith Road, there is no doubt what will happen in a few days with the present condition of that thoroughfare. There will be one long line of hopelessly bogged busses and trucks and autos, and caterpillar tractors will have to be requisitioned to pull them out of their muddy bed. Mean- while all our supplies will have to come by sea, and the muni- cipality will have to employ or charter a freight boat to bring them in. Business will suffer and will continue to suffer during the months that will elapse before the new bridge can be built. It is not a condition that one ivould care to visualise much less experience, and yet that is exactly what must occur if we wait for the present bridge to be washed away before taking action. The present structure is a disgrace to any municipality, much more an up-to-date district like AVest Van- couver. A new bridge over the Capilano is at the present time a most crying nee&1. No time should be lost in taking steps to have the construction of such a bridge started at the earliest possible moment. Professor Morgan Awarded Certificate Professor James ~I. ~!organ has been awarded by the Prov- incial Department of Education --Council of Public Instruction --a certificate as teacher oi music. This certificate carries ivith it license to teach music in any of the schools of British Col- umbia. Mr. ~Iorgan is one of the most successful teachers of singing in Canada. The following brief history of his professional life will be of much interest to our readers. Professor James 3I. i1Iorgan is a typical IVelshman. Born of a musical family, his early train- ing was under local professors. He next came under the direc- tion of Dr, Parry at the Univer- sity College of EVales, Professor Lawrence and Sir George Groves Royal College of )Iusic, and fin- ally studied under that great It- alian master, 51anuel Garcia. As a director of choral and orchestral societies he has had many great successes, winning many of the most coveted honors in Great Britain. Particular mention may be made of the cel- ebrated Resolven Choir, which won several National and semi- National prizes. As a soloist he was in great demand at Promen- ade concerts and has faken the Bass part in all the classical oro- torios. His life's work has been vocal study and tone production, and he has a thoroughly scientific knowledge of the subject, as well as being an excellent musician. VOTERS'IST HEING CO~I V I LED LIBERALS ELECT OFFICERS Given a speaking voice Profes- sor i~!organ claims to be able to make a singing voice of it. The great strain under which he divas ivorking in directing choirs, orchestras, and festivals finally undermined his health, necessitating his leaving the Land of Song to come to Canada to recuperate. Since coming to Canada he has held over 300 concerts in Nanaimo, Victoria and Vancouver. Press referenc- es to his musical ability are to be found in all the papers of the Pacific Coast, and other records of his achievements are to be found in various deiiominational periodicals, including Catholic organs. Baptist, Congregation- al and ~ilethodist Conferences of Canada. As a citizen his work has been A notice appears in this issue under the signature of the 41un- icipal Clerk, James Ollason, to the effect that all those wishing and entitled to have their names placed on the 1929 Voters'ist as Householders or License Hold- ers must file a delcalration on a form provided on or before the 31st instant. This declaration may be made before a notary or before )Ir. Ollason, and forms are available at the ilIunicipal Hall. This list ivill be used for the i~Iunicipal elections next Janu- ary. There are still twelve days left in which to register. Those failing to do so by that time ivill not have a vote in the next elt'.c- tion for reeve and councillors. also for the new appointments for the school board and police conlnlissioil.(Continued on Page 2) At the annual meeting of the Vancouver North Federal Liber- al Association held in the K. P. Hall, North Vancouver, last night the following officers were elected for the forthcoming year: Premier Mackenzie King, honorary president: Hon. J. D. King, and Capt. Ian ~Iackenzie, II.L.A., honorary vice-presid- ents; J. ~I. Bryan, president; H. Parry, Powell River, vice-presi- dent; ~Irs. J. F. Chapman, North Lonsdale, second vice-president; D. C. ~Iclntyre, secretary, and A. L. Gamage, treasurer. Angus ~lcGougan is the retir- ing president of the Association. There are now ninety-six mem- bers in the IVest Vancouver Choral Society. IVe understand that no more than one hundred will be accepted. The Fashionable Luxury of Town Planning The Vancouver Sun of the 16th inst., carries an editorial suggesting that the City of North Vancouver and AVest Van- couver arrange with the firm of Harland Bartholomew and As- sociates to undertake a town planning survey of the North Shore before they complete their work in Vancouver. They speak of present haphazard development as being likely to destroy our scenic beauties as well as to depriciate realty values. The experience of Vancouver as regards town plan- ning, about which the columns of the Vancouver press have been full for some months past, does not appear to have been a happy one. Only recently the city council seriously consid- ered scrapping the idea altogether. There have been endless discussions on the subject in Vancouver, which, boiled down to essentials, have proved two things, first that cities andmunicipalities zone and have always zoned themselves, and secondly that it is impossible to legally enforce the greatmajority of such re~llations unless property owners are will- ing to abide by them. Point Grey laid out a business area,and a man defied the bylaw by building a store outside thatarea and has won his case in two courts. The old proverbabout an Englishman's home being his castle appears to be good law, and it is legally impossible to prevent any propertyowner from doing what he likes with that property providinhe does not damage thereby his neighbors'roperties or health. »ng That puts town planning in the class of the millenium andother most desirable conditions for which we sigh and hope forand know are impossible of fulfilment in this workaday world. The word "Town-planning" is a misnomer. It should bereally called subdivision planning, since in practical lifeits principles can only be applied to large pieces of propertyowned by private parties who wish to and are willing to payfor the scientific laying out of their ground. So far as )Vest Vancouver is concerned, it is now quiteapparent how our district, speaking on broad lines, will zoneitself. The main business area will be along ~Iarine Drive, atany rate from the Capilano tn 25th ~treat. South of 3QziiseDrive and between those two points a number of light indus-tries will probably in course of time be located. The choicestresidential areas &vill apparently be west of 25th and north ofInglewood, which, however, does not preclued the possibilityof stores being built here and there in these areas when thenecessity arises. This would appear to be in rough the futurelayout of our district and no amount of by-laws and town- planning schemes will alter or stop it. There can and therewill probably be certain large subdivisions, which by theterms of the original agreements of sale ~vill compel the pur-chasers to build to certain requirements, and that will be the only opportunity for any so called toom-planning to be broughtinto force. But there is an even more important side to this questionof employing town-planning experts. They do not ivork for nothing, indeed their fees appear to be pretty heavy, and AVest Vancouver at present has a number of far more pressin problems on its hands which ivill take all the money avail- able. There is for instance, the completion of ~!arine Drive, and the construction of an adequate water system, and the Capilano bridge, and the making of beaches and parks. All these are crying needs which require our most earnest at- tention so soon as finances alloiv of their being attended to. Years must pass before all these problems have been satis- factorily solved, and by that time toivnplanning will have joined that galaxy of exploded ideas among ivhich are num- bered the flatness of the earth, the north-west passage, and a tropical North Pole.