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001C9786 A Wee z.y '.4'ews va oe: Cll ClllQl'lllg ill $ 1.00 per year. lb'islricl of'est Vallcollver-- Ambleside, FIollybur77, Westoll, Dulldarave Cypress Park, Caulfeild, Wfiytecliff, Etc. Newsstands sc per Gopy Vol. IV EI G HT PAGES HOLLYBURN P.O., WEST VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JUNE 21st. 1929 No. 12 IION. R. H. BEiNNETT TO ADDRESS ~IEETING IN lVEST VANCOUVEIh GEN. A. D. iAIcRAE, )I.P., 5lember for this Riding. On Tuesday, July 30th, IVest Vancouver is to be signally hon- ored by the Hon. R. 8. Bennett, leader of the opposition in the Dominion I'arliament. On that day, accompanied by Gen. A. D. i~lcmae. ~I.I'., he will give an ad dress here, and this will he the only place on the Lower illain- land at which he will make a puhlic speech during this visit. The Hon. R. 8. Hennett is a particularly f'orceful and able speaker, and his ability, apart entirely from his pre-eminence ns Dominion leader of the Con- s«rvatives, will attract a big au- dience. It is on occasions like this when the poor facilities af- forded in West Vancouver for big meetings are exemplified. 4 I ~ g . '('v,' Yii, HON. R. B. BENNETF, Conservative Leader. Attend the Floral Exhibition Tomorrow CAPILANO BRIDGE TO BE CLOSED FROiI 13TH JULY hool Board Meeting on 3nne 13th The municipal council, in ac- cordance with the written re-The sixth annuu( floral exhi- bition of the West Vancouver Horticultural Society takes place tomorrow in Dundarave Hall. Everybody in West Vancouver who can possibly do so should muke a point of attending; in- deed, our people should go out of their way to be present some time tomorrow at the hall. Apart from everything else, it is IVest l ancouver's own exhibition, or- ganized and arranged at great trouble an/ efI'ort by IVest Van- couver people for the benefit of IVest Vancouver. That alone should ensure its receiving the ftIll support of everyone. Hut it is much more than that. It will be this year, as it has been in the past, one of the finest dis- plays of Aowers to be seen on the Lower ihlainland. 'his is due, not only to the natural ad- vantages of the climate and soil of our district, but to the love of Aoriculture which has been developed among our people by these annual exhibitions put on by the Horticultural Association. It is up to everybody, therefore, to show their appreciation of the gnod work done by the associa- tion by coming to the exhibition tomorrow. The officers of the association have worked hard for the past six years to stage these annual shows which have been so instrumental in keeping West Vancouver before the pub- lic eye as a beautiful place, ren- dered more beautiful by beauti- ful flowers and gardens. It has been a labor of love with them, but just the same a labor which has been largely responsible for IVest Vancouver's rapid growth. Come to Dundarave Hall to morrow and see, not West Van- couver grow, but what IV&wt Vancouver can groiv. At the last meeting of the School Board a letter from J. AU. Gibson was read in which he said that no provision had been made in the government depart- mental estimates for assistance in the matter of the beautifica- tion of school grounds, and that this also applied to the supply- ing of shrubs and trees as well as to the cash grant formerly allowed. The board decided that a reply be sent expressing ap- preciation at the assistance giv- en in the past and voicing the hope that it may be found pos- sible to revive the grants. Special Prizes for Pupils A proposal was made at the meeting to award special prizes tn pupils making the best eÃort during the year. It was decided to leave this in the hands of the management committee with power to act to the extent of $30. quest of the deputy minister of public works, is going to close Capilano bridge and the portion of Marine Drive immediately ad- jacent to it, from 13th July un- til further notice. From that date on trafI'ic will be diverted over the Keith Road bridge, which is being strengthened for this purpose by the provincial depaiCment of works. In his letter the deputy minister stated that the closing of the Capilano bridge was necessary from the above date for the purpose of excavating the channeL and mak- ing the fill approaches. These would need some 16,000 cubic yards of material, a great deal of which would be taken out of the river bed. Consequently an unobstructed channel was re- quired in order that this work could be done economically. Ten- ders were about to be called for the demolition of the present structure and the construction of the new bridge, plans of which would be sent to the council be- fore the tenders were called for. The school trustees gave in- structions that the school prin cipals be advised that no teacher is to enter school children in any entertainment outside of the usual school activities without receiving permission from the board. COUNCII, REI}UEST THE 0 RIDGE HE SET ASIDE AS A I ROVINCIAL PARK The council has written the chairman of the Garibaldi Parks Board requesting that, in order to remove the risk of the spoili- ation of Hollyburn Ridge, this part of the municipality be set uside as a provincial park. They expressed the hope that the board would see fit to ex- amine the ridge, which they felt would convince them of its entire desirability for the purposes of u park. They fur- ther stated that they would be pleased to introduce to the board a man whose knowledge of Ca- nadian pleasure resorts is exten- sive and who knoivs of nothing from coast to coast that in its own way is comparable to this natural park. 0 The school trustees instructed t;he secretary to ivrite to the Vancouver Canadian Club thank. ing them for the gift to each school of pictures of Captain Vancouver. Tenders for Fuel are Invited The district of Burnaby re- quested the endorsation and support of the council for the following resolution which they propose t o submit at the fol- lowing convention of the U.B.C. "That the legislature be asked to amend the hlunicipal Act to provide for the exemption from taxation of lands and premises owned and operated by soldier organ iza tions." The council replied that they were not disposed to endorse the resolution without further in- formatiori on the matter. The School Board is asking for tenders for u supply of coal and wood for the )Vest Vancouver schools. One hundred tons of ~ coal are required to be delivered during the month of July, and fifty tons early next year. Sixty cords of fir cordwood are also re- quired. All tenders must be in the hands of the secretary not 1uter thun 5 p.m. on Thursday, 27th June. An advertisement relative to this appears in this l.'I SUQ. A special publicity number of "The News" will be issued early next month. This will contain numerous illustrations of the l)caches. Schools, Homes, Roads und scenic views of the district. Sl'ECIAL EDITION OF "NEiVS" NEXT 5IONTH Hollyburn Ridge The i4lunicipal Council has asked the Provincial Govern- ment to set aside Hollyburn Ridge as a provincial park, and The Province newspaper, in an editorial this week, is out in strong support of the scheme. It says, and says rightly, that the ridge by its position is strategically situated to be Greater Vancouver's playground, It is to be hoped that our people will get behind the council in a concerted eff'ort to have the ridgy declared a public park. The Hoard of Trade and the Ratepayers'sso- ciation, we think, should lose no time in placing themselves on record as entirely approving of this being done. Hollyburn Ridge as a provincial park would be better patrolled against the menace of fire than is at present the case. The advertising it would receive would not only in- crease its popularity as a winter sports ground, but it would result in a large number of visitors coming here to view its beauties during the summer season. As a provincial park, under the provincial control, arrangements would certainly be made to make the plateau more accessible to the public at large, an undertaking impossible for SVest Vancouver to accomplish for many years to come on account of the expen- diture involved. Most important of all, with the ridge a provincial park the First Narrows Bridge is brought appreciably nearer. It would be impossible then for any means of transportation other than a bridge across the Lions'ate to handle the crowds of sightseers who would come uver The ridge as a park is the first step to the bridge. Let us get behind our council without delay and show the Vic- toria authorities we are entirely in favor of the request made them by our municipal representatives. The following is the editorial in The Province under date June 18th, 1929: "The council of the municipality of N'est Vancouver has asked the Provincial Government to declare Hollyburn Ridge a provincial park, and is urging support of its plea. The city of Vancouver, the city and district of North Vancouver and the other municipalities round about might very well rally to the standard raised on the North Shore as they rallied round the Vancouver Parks Board when the disposition of the Point Grey waterfront was in doubt. "EVhy should Hollyburn Ridge be made a park? There are several reasons. "The ridge is eminently suited for parks purposes, and is suited for nothing else. It is a mountain slope and plateau, with open glades and ponds or small lakes here and there. The air is exhilarating, the view superb. A mountain won- derland is visible from its top. Hollyburn is of no use for industrial or business purposes; it is too remote from trans- portation. Its slope is too steep to be used economically for residences. There are no minerals there, so far as knoNw, and no water power. There is timber, and several attempts have been made to log it, but the cost of getting the timber out has always proven so high that there was no profit in the operation. Hollyburn seems to have been designed by nature for a park and for nothing else. "The ridge is situated, too, just where it can be most useful, not so far away as to be inaccessible, not so close as to obtrude itself. If it can be preserved, it will, in future years, form a sort of picnic ground de luxe for the people of Vancouver--a place where a day, or two days, or a week-end, can be spent with profit and satisfaction. Vancouver has long been proud of its Stanley Park, and the fame of this breathing spot has reached round the world. But Stanley Park is not going to remain forever in its natural state. The smoke and dust of a large city will see to that, and the numer- ous dead tops of trees are evidence of the decay that is slowly settling down over the peninsula. Hollyburn Ridge, if we have the vision and energy to make it such, will be the Stanley Park of the future, and there is room in it for several Stanley Parks. It has mountain features, too, which Stanley Park lacks, and the facilities it overs for winter sports are unique. "There is another point that is worth considering. One of the attractions of Vancouver at present is the pleasant outlook to the North Shore, the green of Hollyburn towering over the roofs of West Vancouver. If that green were brown or black the vieiv would 1ose tremendously in its appeal and Vancouver would be infinitely poorer. Every summer there is danger that )Vest Vancouver will lose its green background, for every summer there is danger of fire, and the more people visit the ridge and enjoy its beauties, the more the danger grows, because people, in spite of admonitions, are thought- less und careless. The ridge is patrolled, of cour:e, by men of the forest service, but as a forest, not as a park, and the patrolling is by no means as thorough as it should be, con- sidering the constant peril in the dry season. Nor are the facilities for fighting fire of the best. "IVith Stanley Park, Little ~Iountain, Capilano and the Point Grey foreshore, Greater Vancouver has a good supply of unique open spaces und breathing places. It needs one or two more to round out its system. Hollyburn Ridge is one of them, and Burnaby Alountain, on which the Town Planning Commission has its eye, and which, like Hollvburn, is not much use for anything but a park, is another."