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001C963C November 30, 1928. THE WEST VAN NEWS Granger's Grocery SATURDAY AalD hIONDAY Sl'ECIALS hlalkin's Tea, 1 lb. pkts... 60c Aylmer hfarmalade, 1 lb. tin lac Campbell'a Tomato Soup 2 tins 23c Wild Rose Flour, 10 lb. bags 16» Finest New Zealand Butter .................. 3 lbs. $ 1.28 FINESTCOOKING APPLES 1'er Box $ 1.16 Delivered Free Prices Consistently Low 1'rompt Delivery 7 arine & 21st Phone West 405 Craig's IIew 3attery Service Next to EVest Van Garage AUTO or RADIO Charging -- Repairs, Etc. Stocks Real Estate Iasuraace and Loans h1ember ot the B. C. hIining and Stock Exchange Orders promptly and eHiciently executed. 579 Dunsmuir St., Vancouver Phone Seymour 8894 Coal and %Vood Get your winter's supply now. Building Supplies. Flour and Feed, Etc. VERNON FEED STORE A. C. SEARLE Phone %Vest 9 HOLLYBU ItN Barber Shop 16th h Marine EXPERT SERVICE E. MARSH Proprietor Prof. J. M. Morgan VOICE PRODUCTION SINGING Vancouver Studio: Seymour 101 West Van. Studio. IVest 173 Mother--"Henry, I wish Mur- iel would give that young man Msome encouragement. He' make a splendid husband." Father--"Have you tried tell- ing her he's a worthless bounder and that she's never to speak to him again?" Terence--" 'Tis a fine lad ye have here. A magnificent head ahd noble features. Could ye lend me a couple of dollars?" Pat--"I could not. 'Tis me wife's child by her first hus- band." There doesn't seem to be much trouble meeting expenses. One meets them almost everywhere. FOR~I ER COUNCILLOR OF NORTH SHORE IS DEAD Correspondence "lVHAT IS IVRONG WITH Council, ca IVEST VANCOUVER?" method of OBJECTS TO SYREN To the Editor of the KVest Van News, Sir, Will you kindly grant me space in your valuable paper for this article which concerns the maj- ority of the citizens of AVest Vancouver. IVe think that the party or parties who are respon- sible for placing a syren on Am- bleside wharf with such a hide- ous and annoying sound should be placed in a lunatic asylum and if there are not steps taken to remove from the Ambleside wharf this annoying noise we as citizens of )Vest Vancouver will take steps to remove it. Yours truly, AN OLD CITIZEN. n suggest any other improving the Dis- trict, let us hear from them. I know that a number will poo- poo the suggestion without giv- ing it a second thought. I realize that something must be done and done soon. I may test public opinion on these questions before many moons are over. Yours truly, D. MORGAN, Ex-Reeve. An emergent meeting of King David Lodge, No. 93, A. F. & A. hI., will be held in the hIason- ic Temple, Hollyburn tomorrow, Saturday, at 2 p. m. for the pur- pose of conducting the funeral of the late brother, John Kay. All members are earnestly re- quested to attend. A resident of the North Shore for twenty-four years and of B. C. for thirty, John Kay, aged 73, died Tuesday at his home, Keith road west. He was a native of Scotland and in 1913-14 repre- sented AVard 1, or the Capilano section on the district council. His wife, one son, and one daugh- ter survive. He was convalescing after a sharp attack of influenza but felt well enough to work for some time in his garden Tuesday afternoon. The funeral will be under the auspices of the SIasonic lodge of EVest Vancouver. The remains are resting at Harron Brothers Er, FVil]iamson's chapel, North Vancouver. To the Editor, Sir, I am asked the above question by nearly every one I talk to, and I have been trying to find out from them what they think is wrong. I get quite a variety of ans- wers, some say it is due to gen- eral conditions, others say be- cause we have such a poor coun- cil, some say the zoning By-law, others again say that we are bur- dened with too much official- dom, for the size of the place and the amount of work to be done. Most of the people I talk to, blame our Transportation sys- tem for the condition the place is in. I am inclined to believe that the transportation question is the main reason for things be- ing as quiet as they are. It is a well known fact, that scores of people will not travel on our ferries, in bad weather, particularly the ladies. I think it is high time for some drastic changes, before it is too late. It is late enough when we see so many empty houses around us and everything prac- tically at a standstill. The question is--WHAT can be done? I well know what I would do, if I could get the powers of a )Iussolini for one year only. The first thing I would do, would be to have quite a house- cleaning at the Municipal Hall. And then I would make a drastic change in the Transpor- tation system. I would discontinue all the fer- ries, except the No. 6, which I woul doperate in the rush hours only, three trips in the morning, from 7 a.m. to 9 a. m. and three in the evening, from 5 p.m. to 7 p. m., just taking care of the peak loads, and operated by only one crew, the Captain to act as Manager. I would run the busses from West Bay to meet nearly every North Vancouver ferry; this could be done with 3 busses and 6 men in two shifts. I would make the fares the same as the street cars, any part of the way, six (6c) cents, and I think that a lower fare on the North Vancouver ferries could be arranged, as the greater part of this business would be in their interest. The above arrangements would link us with the developments that are taking place on the North Shore, and the fares sug- gested, would make it possible for people to live in our District. I have been saying for a long time that the ferries will not get us anywhere, only in debt, and with the increased traffic in the Narrows they are likely to get us into a lot of trouble. EVhy tinker with the operation of an obsolete ferry system when it is acknowledged all over the world that iiiIotor Transpor- tation is the modern way of trav- elling. I imagine that some will say that our busses are not up-to- date, my answer is; that they will do for a start, later, we can purchase half a dozen busses fdr the price of one boat. Others will then say that the bridge (Capilano) is not good enough, then why is it that thousands of autos and stages use it? At the same time, a new bridge cannot be built any too soon. When the widening of the road is completed, west of IVest Bay, the Alunicipality could, to their advantage, give the western area cheaper transportation, and probably later arrange to run to Vancouver Post Office. If anyone, on or off the P.S.--Please note the clippings below. D. M. Busses Beat Railroads i~Iotor busses in Sweden, of which there are around 6000, cover three times as much ter- ritory as the entire railway sys- tem of that nation. The busses run daily over 1600 routes. I.INER NEARLY HAD TROUBLE IN NARROWS Officers of R. ~I. S. Empress of Asia, inbound through the Lions Gate in the light fog early Saturday evening. had some vig- orous complaints to make re- garding tugboats which navigate without proper regard to other vessels. A tug, with a raft, out- bound for False Creek or Fraser River, nearly caused trouble, they said. The tug and a steamer were bound out, and the Empress was bound in. Instead of slackening down until the inbound ship had passed safely, the tug is alleged to have cut across the liner's bows, forceing the Asia to swing towards the outbound steamer. The Asia passed between the ship and the tail of the raft, but might easily have run aground or struck either logs or ship. iblotor Bus Lines in U. S. Exceed Rail ~Iileage IVASHINGTON.--The 4-year old motor bus industry operates over a mileage route 5 per cent greater than the American rail- way system, a report of the bus division of the American Auto- mobile association declared to- day. This giant transportation ag- ency was operated in 1927 at a cost of 1.1 cents per seat mile, as compared with 2.6 per seat mile for private machines, the report showed. Sixty-six repre- sentative motor bus companies throughout the United States last year carried more than 400 million passengers, it was saida Jewellery for Xmas SELLIN'G OU j.'Ue intend to operate as a Repair Shop only Your Opportunity to pucrhase "Gifts" of Watches - Clocks Jewellery and Fancy Goods F IRST SETTLERS Two building permits, as fol- lows, have been issued by the municipal authorities: iAIiss AiIary Chappell, dwelling iAIarine Drive and Dale Ave ................................. $ 1,500 John&lian, dwelling, 17th and Fulton.. $4,000To the Editor,Dear Sir:On the front page of the lastissue of the )Vest Van News wasan article entitled "Pioneers of)Vest Vancouver," the illustra-tion being of our worthy citizens Mr. and AIrs. John Harte, who took up their residence here in 1907. Now without detracting in any way from the honor due these good people, AND the credit, in the 'Province'or last Sunday, we are told that.... "Irwin was one of the first to settle in what is now West Vancouver District, and he pre-empted a large tract of land in the area to-day called 'Cypress Park.'e and Navvy Jack (John Thomas) are believ- ed to have been the two original settlers, in West Vancouver. Navvy Jack had a large por- tion of land at what later be- came Hollyburn, and cleared and planted a fine orchard, still in existence and taken over in the early part of the twentieth cent- ury by John Lawson." So, for argument's sake, let us endeavor to ascertain who was the first settler. EVhen did John Larson come, the 4V. C. Thompson family, the iAIisses Stevenson of the 'Cla- chan'nd some others? Yours truly, F. J. TROUGHTON. at greatly reduced prices. Wm-. Sagar The KVest Van Jeweller "&e West Van Conservative Assn. will give A Socia &'.vending in HOLLYBURN P 4VILION ".n ..'ri(ay, 'ecemier ...:1;I from 9 p. m. to 1 a. m. WEST BAY P. 0. CORPORATION OF THE DISTRICT OF lVEST VANCOUVER Court of Revision of Voter's'ist, 1929 To the Editor of West Van News, Sir:--EVil) you permit me a small space in your valuable paper to voice my appreciation of our new post office at West Bay. This has been sorely needed a long time. But oh, that name, Wads]ey! Why not a more ap- propriate name to our little Bay, such as iAIarine Bay, Creek Bay. Ravine Bay, Bathers Bay, Sea Bay, Radcliffe Bay or Oxley Bay ~ I think any of these named would be more suitable. Yours truly, F. BLOEV. NOTICE is hereby given that a Court of Revision of the Voters'ist will sit at the 4Iunicipal Hall, 17th and Esquimalt, District of )Vest Vancouver, B. C., on 3Ionday the 10th day of December, 1928, at 10 o'lock in the forenoon, for the purpose of correcting and revising the Voter List for the year 1929 and to determine any application to strike out the name of any persoii, which has been improperly placed thereon, or to place on such list the name of any person improperly omitted there- fromm. Dated at the hIunicipal Hall, West Vancouver, B. Coo this 16th day of Noveniber, 1928. JAS. OLLASOX, ~lunicipal Clerk. Admission will be by ticket only which may be obtained from members of the Executive or from the offices of Colonel K. 4V. Savory at Ambleside or of Troughton 8: Barrow at Dundarave.