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Newspaper
Nicola Herald
Location
Nicola, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Dec 06, 1907
Page
3
Hon. R. G. Tatlow announces that British Columbia is repaying half a million dollars of the million dollar loan taken by Premier McBride’s government. The prepayment saves 3 percent interest over many years while bank deposits yield only 1.5 percent.
The Royal Horticultural Society granted the Gold Medal to the British Columbia Government exhibit of fruit. Gold medals went to T. G. Earl Lytton Mrs J Smith Spence's Bridge J R Brown Summerland and the Nelson Fruit Growers Association. Silver medals were awarded to Oscar Bronn Vernon A Unsworth Chilliwack and J A Ritchie Summerland. Nine bronze medals were also given to British Columbian growers.
The executive committee of His Excellency's musical and dramatic trophy competition announces a change to allow all of Canada and Newfoundland to enter. Entries may be limited by city or province to fit Ottawa's four day event in February. Send entries to F C T O'Hara, Ottawa, for consideration. Trophies currently held by Winnipeg and Quebec will again be offered.
Mr. Campbell Sweeny of the Bank of Montreal announced plans to establish a Prince Rupert branch as the Grand Trunk Pacific terminus develops. The head office has arranged a portable Vancouver building to be shipped north and set up when business conditions justify opening banking services.
A rock slide sixty feet long and up to twenty feet deep buried the CPR tracts at Saddle Rock between Spuzzum and Yale at 5 o'clock last Friday. The slide was caused by heavy recent rains.
J A Menzies agent for Janet Menzies Lower Nicola gives notice under the Land Act that within sixty days from Dec 2 1907 an application to purchase 640 acres in the Kamloops Division Yale Land District Nicola District will be made. The parcel starts 80 chains north of Lot 1425 NW corner and loops 80 chains per side to form a square.
J A Menzies of Lower Nicola, carpenter, intends to apply for permission to purchase land described as starting at the northwest corner of Lot 1425, proceeding 80 chains in each direction to form a square, containing acres more or less.
John Trainor accoun tant of Coutlee British Columbia plans to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a special timber license. Describes six land parcels in Railroad Pass Yale Division Yale District totaling 640 acres each with boundary metes and bounds dated November 20 1907.
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