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I Is Re—electecl

Former president of UBC Dr. No . . acKenzie was elected president of the Cana- dian Centenary Council for the second year in a row at the final session of the Council in Moni- gcme y esterday.

The Council is a voluntary of private organizations through- out the country. and serves in an advisory capacity to the “private sector" of Canada for the Centennial in 1967. The fourth annual meeting, which started last Wednesday, was held this year in Charlottetown in conjunction with the Is- land‘s own hundred year party this summer.

A co-president will be ap- pointed at a later date to as- sist Dr. MacKenzie. Chairman of the executive committee is William Burden of Montreal.

Honorary treasurer Robert B. Taylor of Hamilton and honor- ary secretary John Archer of Saskatchewan were also nam- ed at the meeting, Mrs. Frank

1 V . aw V ' a ) t M. Ross. Vancouver; Dr. Colin f1. campy,“ . ‘ . ’ ‘ MacKay, Fredericton; Andre “W M I \ V , _ H _ _ ' ‘ Bachand, Montreal: G. . Tan-

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TORONTO fCPl — Imperial‘

Oil Limited Friday announced it has awarded a $4,300,000 con-

5 ‘ tract to Port Weller Dry Docks

Limited at Port Weller, 0nt., jfor construction of a 9.500-ton ‘coastal tanker.

Work will start immediately with delivery slated for the fall '0 1965. the announcement said.

' I‘Brinzing the company‘s tanker fl

eel to 17, the new ship will be

'. {stationed in Halifax for service

to east coast ports in Nova Sco-

; 1 tie, Newfoundland and the North

and South shores of Quebec. It will have a capacity for

i 81.500 barrels with provision for

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5 nearby

vice-presidents of the organiz- ation

J. Roby Kidd, a CCC director. gave the nominating committee's report, in which 23 of the 40 called-for board directors were selected.

Bluenose Slated

; For Halifax Call

l HALIFAX (CP) —— Bluenose ll, replica of the famed racing-

fishing schooner, will be in Hall- .

fax June 15-17, the vessel's first gvisit to Halifax since she was ;1aunched at I/unenburg, N.S. last July. Her owner. a Halifax brew- . Bluenose II also will attend official opening ceremon- ies of a new oil refinery at

non-governmental body formed

1 _ Eastern Passage Junei ‘ 1 specialty products. it will also. 22. ‘1 1 t have an ice . strengthened hull.‘ The schooner. now undergo-t ifor Winter navigation, and a' ing an overhaul at Lunenburg.3 Ibow-thrustcr~~a propeller fitted spent the winter at Cocos ls-, ' ill! the forward part of the ship. land in' the Pacific and in the.

For unlawfully and wilfully' causing damage to an extent', not exceeding $50. C arl Mac-t Vittie of Crapaud was fined $25l I and costs or 10 days by Magis-j trate James B. Johnston, QC, in '. Queens C 0 ii n t y Magistrate‘s lCourt yesterday. He was aiso» , or (3 make restitution lwithin 15 days the $35 worth ‘of cement tiles he destroyed. l William Matthews Thompson 1 of Wood Islands East was sen-i tenced to 30 days Queens County jail for the petty theft of food from an unienanted cot.-

age. ,

The re was only one caset brought before c ourt by that fisheries department. Bernardl Gerald Myers, West Covehead.‘. pleaded guilty to a charge of having possession of about 25 undersized lobsters. He was fin-

ed $20 or 10 days.

A Moncton man, Keith Glen; Clattenburg, received the fine; of $100 and costs after enter-i ing a plea of guilty to impalra ed driving.

The case of Sylvia Ann Mar-l tin, a resident of Sunny Corner, NB... was adjourned until June ‘ 5. Nearly two months ago she ‘pleaded guilty to a charge of uttering a forged document. during a series of incidents in which several cars from Newf Brunswick travelled through: P.E.I. selling magazine sub-i scriptions. She was at that time , remanded on bail and given; ' permission to leave the lsland.t

Allison Gillis represented her ‘ in COilrl. ; ‘ There were fiva cases of 11-; l legal possession of liquor. Eachf

man involved pleaded guilty

and was fined $20 and costs or

30 days.

In the traffic section Joh n Dunstan Carmichael, Eiliotvale,

Anthony Frank Kelly, Sherwood; and Bernard Gerald Meyers of, Covehead were each fined $10 and costs for operating a mot-

lDr MacKenzie'—m The Guardian. Charlottetown, Sat, May 30, 1934,

‘Wiltul Damage Count Results In $25 Fine

Alfred Jose h Steele. St. . er's Bay. “Pare each fined $101 lowing I person t0 “69 0" “let on the Thames. for a memorial and costs for driving motorl tailgate of a station wagon. ﬁts1 to the late President John i=1

Big Transportation Boost

Pprl'fit“ [JOHN‘S '"llld heﬂer in 1941 Will! a select list of tar [and are W. W. Mutch. brother first president: V, R. Ma

illustrate thP ti'emcndous boostivired passenncrs.

e'cpI-‘ctml in be given Island tran-l Since then the operators hfl\'e;1\qaCKinnnn; 1 (-Neill; J. Claude Hunter. 1‘.“ and A A Hum” is president of m. siiortntum by the putting int" never looked back and the (‘nn- navid Stewart: A H. Pcake; Ferdusoii Mr Fer'iusnn is owners Northu‘nberland Wer- sei-virp at the new “Prince tinuing greater demands foriand H_ E, Hyndman, preside," of “must?” Indus. m, Lt'd ‘ _ Nova" on the Wood Islands-Carr space and speed and more ' ' '

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its improve manoeuvrability.

Two men prominent in this Prince \‘ova story are Capt.

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tries Lid. Piciou, N.8. mak- ers of the new ferry and Capt.

thou run than a comparison of traffic figures for the past two decades. .

But an understanding and ap- preciation of those figures may perhaps be easier reached if a person has some knowledge of the history of the service pro- vided by the Northumberland Ferries ,

It was a quarter—century ago Board of Trade officials and Charlottetown businessmen be came interested in the project. One of the prime movers was the late RE Mutch who final- ly was successful in giving tra- \eilers a shorter route to Nova

ntia.

Manv years before that Is-

landers had enjoyed a direct boat service from this city to

Pictou and old timers will re- year

call with nostalgia the sight of the SS Hochelago steaming into the harbor. She h (1 been once-luxurious private yacht converted to passenger service,

After that strait crossing ser- vice was discontinued the up- surge in vehicular traffic on the highways and freight move-

ments hv truck pointed up the U til

lif‘PI’l for a shorter and faster route to Nova Scotia destina- tions than the long haul via Bor- den

BECOMES REALITY

Slowed down and sometimes frustrated in the early years of World War 2, the Wood Islands service finally became a reality and the first crossing was made

‘ ous of reaching a nearby mar-

i l or vehicle without a license. ,

1 Ernest A rib or MacDonald. i York, and Dale John Murphy. Charlottetown were both fined :10 and costs for having an un- registered motor vehicle on the. highway.

Ronald B e r n a rd MacLean Charlottetown, was fined $10 and costs for speeding a n d Richard George Taylor, Chap lottetown, was fi 310 and s for driving without due care, and attention. The Brmsh government mam Roberts. Stanhope and Elmer James Gallant.'Ctiai'-1 to SC, aside an acre m. the his- Petn lottetown was charged With al-itoric meadow at Runnymede.

Keith Willard Coffin. l lottetowu. pleaded not guilty to driving without due care land attention, his case was adjour. ned till June 3.

Bernard Gerald Meyers. of Covehead, was also fined :10

adults in the front seat.

PLANS MEMORIAL

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vehicles with faulty equipmenl.l case adjourned till June 5. Kennedy.

, ANNUAL scuom MEETINGS T

Ratepayers and all persons entitled to vote at school meetings are hereby notified that. the Annual School Meeting of each district in the province will be held. as required by Law, on

Tuesday, June 2, 1964 at 8:00 p.m. Daylight Saving Time.

WHO MAY VOTE AT THESE MEETINGS?

1. Every person who, or whose husband or wife, is a ratepayer in the district, and who, and whose husband or wife. has paid in_full all district school rates and taxes, including dog tax if assessed, imposed upon him, may vote at any school meeting on any question.

2. Every woman residing in the district and being the mother, step- mother or adoptive mother of a child of school age residing With-her and in actual attendance at the school of the district, shall be a qualified voter at all school meetings and shall be eligible for election as a trustee unless she shall he in arrears of school taxes or dog tax assessed against her.

- - - Section 27 of the School Act.

The Order of Business is detailed in Section 29 of the School Act.

Letters from the Department of Education and the Superintendent of Schools have been sent to School Board Secretaries and should be read at these meetings.

Districts that are not now included in a regular high school unit must apply to the Department of Education if they wish to join a unit. Requests will be passed to the Boundaries Commission who will determine the unit that a district may join. A special meeting of the ratepayers may then be called by the Department of Education for the purpose of voting on the question of joining the unit designated by the Boundaries Commission.

M. MacKENZlE,

DEPUTY MINISTER and CHIEF DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION Department of Education Charlottetown Prince Edward Island May 21, 1964.

Claude Lewis, York, Lloyd.

sailings have seen them supply- ing an ever-larger, faster ship to handle the greater number of transport trucks and an explod- ing tourist population. ‘ The fantastic increase in move- ment, and the present day need i for this vital link in the prov- ince's transportation system. ‘. c n be seen in the fact that since its first year of operation passenger traffic alone has jumped 708 r cent according to last season's records. In that 1941 season the origin- Princa Nova was on the run and the ferry service trans- po 35,303 passengers and obiles and trucks. on of the service now to shippers is graphically il- lustrated by the fact that last 10,446 truck alone were handled. What this means to small shippers and those desir-

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SOME RECORDS

In the intervening years since . its inception each decade has participated in the advances. ,

n‘ 1958 no distinction was made in the records between? trucks and passenger cars. I0 ‘ all traffic figures for the earlier ’ years combined the two. A comparison by 10-year stages vividly portrays the change which has taken place in Island travel. The figures are interesting as shown in the following chart:

Passengers Autos 39.4

ruclui including trucks (1,2811

1943 6.486 1953 MAM 27.888 lfiﬁfl 179.216 55,970

There have been four ships on the run altogether. all well known to travellers. They were the first Prince Nova, the Char- les A. Dunning the Lord Sel- l’irk and now the second Prince Nova. The latter two, now in regular service are both new

including trucks plus 10,446 trucks

(6,816)

and ultra-modern in their ac. commodations.

President of the company is Capt. Claud Hunter who is in lcharge of the company offices‘ on Queen Street. All the com-. pany directors are lslanderiil

Ontario Seeks More Farm Help

TORONTO iCPl»-Oniario can use as mu im farm help from the Atlantic as is available. Glenn Carlson, director of Ontario empl for the National Employment Service. said ii inter-view

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He said that since Alli! 15 about no form funds have u- nveil in

sldiaad rain fares to assist

WA“! an‘ “alt 0WD QXpenHﬁer I. armors-oi to farm m.

Ontario man oub- to

l guaranteed work —— will arrive. . here within the next two mon- ] the. a The hoot-era pay as little as ‘ $35 for their train trip: and the 1 federal and provincial govern- menu provide a subsidy for tlie‘ balance of the expense. Mr Wilson said i Help is imported from the At. t lantic provinces each year be cause of high unemployment use, About 300 form hands urneyed Ontario for work lad year Most returned home

Our best wishes to the

Prince Nova

BEDARDBGGIRARD

HALIFAX HOHTIIAI. TORONTO Ollin OTTAWA' VANCOUVER

Electrical installations. Machiner installation and pieces piping. Switchgr and switchboards.

Motors and generators up to 7000 HP. Communication systems.

Master clock systems.

CONGRATULATIONS

To the people of Prince Edward island and Northumbcrland Ferries Ltd. on the acquisition of the splendid new ferry Prince Nova. We are proud to have installed resilisant and tie for this

vessel.

RALPH CONNOR CO. [TO

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