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t tn s hAn independent morning pap«*r devoted to th«* Interests of New Westminster and o the Fraser Valley. Published every morning except Sunday by the National Printing t and Publishing Company, Limited, at 63 McKenzie Street, New Westminster, British a Columbia. ROBB SUTHERLAND, Managing Director. iiAll communications should be addressed to The New Westminster News, and not a to Individual members of the staff. Cheques, drafts, and money orders should be made e payable to The National Printing and Publishing Company. Limited. hTELEPHONES—Business Office and Manager, 999; Editorial Rooms (all depart- tlt; ments), 991.SUBSCRIPTION RATES—By carrier. 14 per year, $1 for three months, 40c per tlt;month. By mail. 13 per year, 25c per month. ADVERTISING RATES on application.OI t!MON DA V MORNING, MARCH 3*3, 1914.THE RIGHT KIND OF A PULL.clt;hUdlt;iIceiP*fotodiotoraereandi!c*nWfiIBusiness men from Vancouver and New Westmins-jjt ter, who were the guests of the New Westminster pilot board on an inspection trip of the new Fraser river channel last Friday when it was demonstrated that the river now is open for deep sea shipping from the mouth to Port Coquitlam, sounded a new note of co-operation which is destined to have far-reaching results. The keynote of the speeches made in the cabin of the steamer Paystreak was “pull together and when it is remembered that this key- jj] note was sounded by some of the most representative men, ii in both cities it is safe to predict that the lower mainland of British Columbia is on the verge of a new era of cooperative development.Former Reeve J. W. Weart of Burnaby, speaking|,,r from his position as a resident between the two cities, lead! the way with some startling declarations. A few years,tie ago—a very few years ago—Mr. Weart’s remarks would‘JJ® have been the occasion for ironical comment and passed j over as the much-too-previous dreams of a rank futurist.On Friday last they were received not only with applause, but were heartily endorsed by other speakers.As yet there has been no outward sign of the movement outlined by Mr. Weart as inevitable, tending to bring within the corporate limits of one great metropolis the present cities of Vancouver and New Westminster and j 8ui the municipalities of Point Grey, South Vancouver and Burnaby, but that a man of such recognized business ability cou’tl make such a statement to such a gathering of business men as sat in the cabin of the Paystreak Friday afternoon last and be applauded for so doing is an immensely significant fact.Characteristically, the speaker impressed his views on his hearers with business reasons as their basis._ He referred to the five different sets of municipal machinery at present required to administer that territory lying (yes between the western bounds of Coquitlam and Burrard In-let and he pointed out the enormous saving in time, money' b and energy which would result from the centralization ofthis government.The idea is a big one and, like all big ideas, will takemuch time to work out, but so surely as this peninsula continues the development of which its past performances have given promise, so surely will this big idea become an actual fact and when it does materialize New Westminster need have nothing to fear from the results of the pooled interests. Her safeguard and guarantee of full recogni-l 1 tion and consideration lies in the Fraser river which flows PK past her doors with its miles of industrial and dock sites.In the years to come business of a magnitude at which we now can only guess will demand the utilization of those sites. With the growth of ocean and transcontinental traffic through from this peninsula, there will be bound to come conflict of authority, municipal councils fighting for their individual rights, pilot boards locking horns over vexed questions and harbor commissions striving for supremacy. This is inevitable, for no great reform ever was accomplished without much heart-burning, and it does not make the outcome any less sure. For this latter reason and to speed the day of final settlement of internecine strife it should be the aim of all of us to foster at every opportunity that ‘pull together” spirit which was so much lh“ in evidence last Friday afternoon. By so doing we will reduce the size of the obstacles in the path leading to that inevitable union, that consolidation of purposes which is bound to work out to the advantage of all the interests within the five municipalities concerned. ! \VP _ GotdetEwancpaitundeabroriplsheEwo I eac the thnThe lor in teappherLotingdc i: tor liar Chi adr knc AiroiyealiorkncEmabuspar mu k e iLoiclokncP. 1sio; a 1
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New Westminster News
New Westminster, British Columbia, CA
Mon, Mar 30, 1914
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