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Newspaper
Prince Rupert Journal
Location
Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jan 05, 1917
Page
4
A student group from the London Conservatory of Music and pupil of Lansdowne Cottell, the Belgian musician, prepared for the Associate Board at Vancouver Centre and the Royal College of Music. Contact 1208 Second Ave for details.
Friday evening the Prince Rupert Board of Trade will meet at the Board Rooms on Second Avenue. All members should attend. Mrs Parkin and Mrs McClymont will run the Red Cross sale Friday to aid wounded soldiers. Volunteers praise weekly sales and urge continued effort until victory.
Westholme offers a special feature tonight a hypnotic demonstration by Haleen at 9 o clock lasting about twenty minutes. Maleen a longtime America stage mind reader visits the city for a day or two and the show will invite audience participation. Haleeen departs soon for the south to join engineers at the front.
Edward Trickett, famed Australian professional sculler and first non British champion, died at Uralla in New South Wales. Born in Sydney, he won the 1876 title against Joseph Sadler in England, lost the crown to Edward Hanlan in 1880, and saw England reclaim the title with Ernest Barry in 1912.
Liquor act notice states Beaver Wholesale Liquor Co of Prince Rupert intends to renew a wholesale liquor licence for Beaver Wholesale Liquor Co premises at 708 Fraser Street with Lots 15-16, Block 82, Section 1 City of Prince Rupert. Dated October 12 1916. Also renewal of Nichol Hotel retail liquor licence at Pacific Province BC. Dated October 7 1916.
Trade paper discussion highlights the value of proximity to markets for mills and compares costs of water transport from Powell River to Sound points against Oregon mills. It notes fir unsuitability for paper, favoring hemlock and similar woods, and mentions Germany’s wartime reparations and postwar governance ideas.
Austin Brown of Victoria British Columbia solicitor occupation ladder intends to apply for permission to prospect lands for coal and petroleum at Graham Island West Coast near West River southeast corner of C L 8085 starting point then north eighty chains east zero chains south one chain and west eighty chains to start. Dated July 19 1914
G P NADEN COMPANY LIMITED applies to take 300 cubic feet per second and store 40 000 acre feet of water from Kumeaton River for power on land near Lake Katherine Prince Rupert area The notice posted October 4 1916 invites objections within 30 days to the Water Recorder Prince Rupert and the Victoria Comptroller of Water Rights.
Hume B. Babington and Norman R. Brodhurst of Prince Rupert BC announce under Section 7 of the Revised Statutes of Canada the deposit with Ottawa and Prince Rupert Registry of Titles of site plans for a wharf at Hensling Bay Langara Island in front of Lots 999 and 998. They seek approval from the Minister of Public Works and leave to construct after one month from this notice. Dated Prince Rupert BC December 27 1916. Williams & Manson solicitors for the applicants.
Applications for entry to the Civil Service College will be received until April 15 by the Secretary Civil Service Commission Ottawa. Blank entry forms are available from the commission. The date for joining is around August 1 for successful candidates.
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