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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 03, 1951
Page
2
The piece discusses expanding the area through feasibility factors and calls for prioritizing needs. It questions corporate funding for annual housing and industry, while noting limited housing and transportation concerns. It cites Hugh Gaitskell on currency controls affecting emigrants in the commonwealth.
Ten men joined the Ferra junta at a meeting in Cydiarchay ek Strauhelair with Harold Johnston and John Richey among the top two. Other items include Oak River actor Dorig Common winning second prize at ACTCEX amateur night and gatherings in Standon attended by Robert English, Shirley Scater, and Victoria Wiens. St Mathew's W A held a monthly meeting at Mrs C Post’s home discussing the deanery meeting a bazaar and Sunday school reopening. Windsor Star commentary urged careful magistrate and judge appointments to maintain respect for law and courts.
Bradwardine Mr and Mrs Lloyd Wood hosted a Legion club room shower on April 26 with about 70 guests signing the guest book. Lyn Foster and Wilma McKenzie presented gifts from a decorated hamper, Phyllis Klywak read greetings, and lunch featured Auld Lang Syne.
A 270 pound striped marlin swordfish was landed off the New Zealand coast and found to bear a stainless steel plate indicating it had been caught and released for scientific observation on March 23 1931. The tag read Liberated 23 3 31 latitude 30 degrees south longitude 178 degrees west and asks for Fisheries Department notification. The movement of Pacific game fish is debated among authorities, with swordfish still little understood scientifically. No original tagging source identified.
Grade 10 pupils at Newmarket High request town council support to restore a pioneer graveyard on the outskirts of Ontario's Newmarket. They note many early Ontario figures are buried there, including Sir John Beverley Robinson, and offer to help clear stones and weeds.
James Bullen, 35, becomes the first male registered nurse in British Columbia after training at St Pauls school of nursing in Vancouver beginning September 1948. He persevered despite a female-dominated cohort, aided maternity care, and now aims for orthopedic surgery or private nursing for male invalids served by traveling.
Alberta women's institutes clubs donate sewing kits and items to 80 wartime orphans graduating from Glyfada Vocational School near Athens. Proceeds include $18 donations and extra buttons used for thread. Gift program funded by provincial club funds during a Lethbridge conference.
TAKE NOTICE an application has been made by Rivers Branch Canadian Legion of Rivers Manitoba to the Government Liquor Control Commission for a Club License for the Rivers Canadian Legion Club Rooms on Main Street Rivers Manitoba. Objections may be filed within ten days after the last issue of The Manitoba Gazette or a newspaper containing the notice. The Commission will hear evidence on the application and objection and notify the municipality. Dated Rivers Manitoba April 23 1951 H. R. Dunn President. We extend heartfelt tributes for the loss of our wife and mother W J White and Family.
FOR SALE TRAILER 7 ft by 12 ft fibreglass insulated fully equipped also adjoining building 8 by 12 fibreglass insulated finished inside contact Allan Angus 705 Second avenue p26 3 FOR SALE 1949 PANTHER motorcycle 250 c c mileage 6000 sacrificed at 325 contact John L Kite Pettapiece phone 312 6 Rapid City p26 FOR SALE Oak dining room suite viewable Mrs Bachelders 521 Main Street opposite school
We express gratitude to all who assisted us during our bereavement for flowers and cards received and for sympathetic understanding from Jim and Bob Rous.
Green baby chenille bed spread lost Saturday night April 21 between town and the corner going west from Rivers. Finder please return to McKenzie's store Mrs Mite Klywak.
Farm machinery for sale including a Massey Harris 102 G Jr tractor and an Oliver 80 tractor. Both have good rubber and are in all around shape, ready to work. Contact Robert Taylor at BA Service Station. 0263.
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