.aeveral holiday trips he took to the

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edeerner

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'F3ih&

City” and

Gaatdian

Cenira

F 0 Ad Cs .50..

Banquet Pictured above are the large Son? banquet to

group who attended the very en- joyable first annual Father and

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Holy Redeemer Scouts. which was held last exch- ing at the Community Centre.

and Kinkora and a large new high , Miscouche 23

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EXPANSION

were built at Kensington. Alberton .lilontague 69;

school has been started at Sum-

Page 2. The Guardian

"CRASWELL for better graphs."

MUSICAL FESTIVAL Entries close March 1st.

WINDMILL SPECIAL today- Corned beef and cabbage. 65c.

WE TREAT THE IICI WELL. Giggey's Pharmacy. open 8 a.rn to 8 p.m.

WORTIPS PHARMACY. Pure Drugs with an experienced ser- vice. Dial 3424.

AT 8.A. McDonald's - Discontln ued lines of Lady Mae. Side-look gorselettes. All sizes 110.00 for

.50.

LECTURER AND Art Critic Hear Eric Newton P.W.C. Wed nesday, Feb. 29. 8.30. "An approach to modern Illustrated lecture.

VARIETY CONCERT and colour- ed slides of our Island Scouts at th Wor"l Jamboree. Zion Church Hall. March 1st., 8 p.rn. Tickets 35 cents and 25 cents.

AT S.A. McDonald's - Nylon Side zipper Girdles. Assorted sizes 812.00 for 7.50. Front lacing core sets. Assorted sizes 37.50 for 35.00.

POLICE COURT - Five accus- ed were dealt with by Magistrate Martin yesterday morning. two drunk and incapables were each fined five dollars and costs or two days: a third for the same charge was sentenced to twenty days in jail. A motorist for faulty equip- ment (brakes) was fined ten dol- lars and costs or five days; a similar fine and sentence was giv- en to a second motorist for failing to stop at a red light.

'tECEIvEs WORD - Word has been received by Miss Gertrude Coady of the death of her brother, John Edward. in Waltham. Mass., after a short-illness. John who was born in Hazelbrook. son of the late Tobias and Mrs. Coady and at an early age went to Boston where he has since resided except for

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Island to visit relatives. His wife pre-deceased him several years ago and he leaves to mourn a son. Gerald. who lived with him, besides the following brothers and sisters out of a family of ten. William. I-Eazelbrookf Alfred. New York; Mrs. Laura Murray. Tyrone Lot 65: Mrs. Belle Driscoll. Mt. Her- bert: Mrs. Catherine Creamer and itiliss Gertrude Cosdy. Charlotte. own.

Junior Farmers Directors Meet

The directors of the Junior Farmers held a meeting on Sat- urday afternoon in the Board of Agriculture rooms in Charlotte- town with the vice president Ed- ward Clark of Lot. 16 pa siding. Under the discussion period the matter of radio programs was given consideration, the question 07 dlyllght saving time versus standard time was discussed with I fairly evenly divided opinion being expressed by those present.

Regarding the proposed visit of four junior farmers from Ontario during the coming surnm it was decided to invite them to pay a visit to the province and that during their stay they be the guests at the homes of the vari- ous members of the junior farm- en in Prince Edward Island.

During the afternoon the exec- utive met with Provincial Gov- ernment agricultural representat- ives. Messrs. Pierce. Palmer. Msccougan and also the head of the extension department during which the various projects of the Iiinior farmers for the coming

discussed at con-

i House on the eighth and ninth only.

at the Hughes Drug Store."

ed today. Tantons Accessories Lim- ited.

HEAR DR. STEELE this eve-

tival over C.F.C.Y.

24-28. Sl4.00 for Sll.50.

' FIRE SALE Bargains in Televis- ion Chesterfields. Refrigerators. Chrome sets. bedroom suites. high Chairs. occasional chairs, wash- ers. City T. V.. 175 Gt. George Street.

CONFERENCE DATE SET - Before adjournment of the House yesterday, Premier Math- eson said that be along with some Government members will attend the Fiscal agreement conference in Ottawa on the 9th of March. It! is presumed that the Premier and- his party will be absent from the

CARD PARTY - Results of the

evening were: Ladies first Mrs.l Melvin Burns; second Mrs. Erlci Farquarson; third Mrs. l

second Dan Murphy;

Mrs. Fulton Robertson.

CHANDLER FUNERAL - The funeral of the late George H. Chandler was held from the Mac- Lean Funeral Home yesterday

was in Portage Cemetery. Pail bearers were: Raymond Ling. Percy lVlacRae. Harold Chandler. Wallace Higgins. I-inward Ax- worthy and Gordon Crui-.

CARD PARTY - Following are the results of the weekly card party held at Central Royalty. last Thurs day evening: Ladies first. Miss Marjorie Ellis. second Mrs. MacGregor. consolation. Mrs. M. Walker. Mens' first. Ford Wilson. second Joseph MacMillan, consol- ation. Robert Bingley. door prize James Yeo. freezeout Marjorie Ellis and " Campbell. Tourn- ament prizes grand prize. Edgar Hayes. rnens first Ford Wilson. second Bill Coker. ladies first Mrs. Robert Bingley. second Miss Mad- eleine Stewart.

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Personals

Mr. Henry Taylor. Cornwall. is a patient in the P. E. 1. Hospital. His friends wish him a speedy recovery.

Miss Eileen Welsh of the P.E.l. Hospital. spent Saturday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. Welsh. Clyde River.

Miss Florence Macnougali of the P. E. I. Hospital. spent the weekend at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Welsh. Clyde River.

Mrs. Maria Robertson. formerly of North River. spent the weekend in East Royalty. the guest of her brother and sister-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Roberts.

Ml's. Preston Diamond is visit- ing her riaughier Mrs. C.G. Duncan. 224 Eustnn St., having reiun-mi hy. air from Toronto last evening after a visit of several months with her son Spurgeon and family.

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Arsenault; freezeout Reg Whitlockmn analysis and Mrs. Victor Egan: tournament figures shows that nearly half J.W. MacDonald and Mrs.i.the students who wrote Chemistry failed. Difficulty wa.-1 also experi- enced in Physics but to a lesser degree.

"It is fairly obvious that a good deal of the gifficulty ocurred as afternoon. Service was conducted” rem" of I e wur” by the Rev. Harold Brown andl:TIdII'Ie"CI'lE5IIISLl;!Y course has sipce Rev. Howard Christie. Intermentl gen 8 ere an 5”” We? W0

years. It is unfortunate that initial difficulties have occurred and I am hopeful that both the course of studies and the examinations may be adjusted in order that the students may be faced wtih more reasonable demands. "At the grade XI level 349 stud- ents wrote the examinations from thirteen schools; ten public and three private. 159 passed in al subjects 104 passed with failures in one or more subjects and 32 did not reach the required aver-

D9 about as school centers as we should go at the present time.

"Two or three srholls found dif- ficulty ln maintaining their enroll- ments snd fell below the minimum requirements. I believe that we should now enter a period of con- solidation rather than any further expansion with the senior high schools in the smaller centers. to insure that we have sufficient students to fill the classes in the schools already established. "However regardless of minor difficulties the general trend with the rural high schools is very de- finitely one of progress. which I iwiieve may best be observed from the figures on enrollment. For the school year ending June. 1954. the senior high school enrollment in the public schools was 206; last year it was 371 and for the present school year it is 451. At present there are 279 in Grade XI and 172 in Grade XII. It may be of Interest to the House to have the details

,h”The rli:'ograi):i ("III C?Ili'II'llCIIOfiI of 1 , i esmaerscocisoteprovnce "YOUR DOLLAR auis MORE a?,.,.a,.s ,0 be "smug Completion. lllle will look forward to some new construction and a continuation of pupils. are selling a senior

Tuesday, Feb. 23,1951 immis-

SHIPMENT OF car chains arriv-.s(.hm1 improvement but it would appear that most small districts which are schools have already done so. "Many excellent schools have "mg at 7145 p'mi W Musical FESI been erected since school construc- tion grants were inaugurated some

AT s'A. McDona1d.s g inhancw go years ago. It has meant much

E?,,sf'.".dLej,,,n";”f.?avbgrefggmggfgg-and educational progress of i ' province. The progress of school construction and school improve- ment may now be observed from one end of the province to the other. It is ample evidence that still another plank of the Liberal latform and another policy of the iberai government has achieved most noteworthy results. SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS

"The end of the last school year marked the completion of the first two years of the new senior high school program and the grade twelve students who passed last or were the first high school graduates from rural schools since the raising triculation to the grade twelve basis. , "There were 144 students who Hid Party at Spring Park last wrote the grade twelve examina- tions board and of these 56 fully pass- . Loman ed; 67 passed with one or more CIITBI: men I first. Dolph Gallaiihlfaiiures but made the required 50 llllrd A-lpercent average

likely to

the educational developmekni I e

of the standard of ma-

oi the common examining

while 21 failed.

of the amination

of studies

age.

"At the beginning of the present school year a new Grade XI centre was opened at Morell which is geographically well serve an area which had no pre- vious senior high school accom- modation. Grade XII was extend- ed for the first time to Kensing- ton. Alberton and Kinkora. It ap-

t t t It an 0 me M we we ":1: very serious consideration. I pro-

far with opening new hi

Newly Elected I.O.D.E. Officers

&NCIiBO I1 III! (Il'I'ItMIhWI HONIMI1. A. I. Weir. Mrs. 'I'. .W. L. ,II- 1-was aftsraosn. Fruit m,l

U W K. 3. I '1 IIII

ithe great major.

build new which would not have

situated to

by schools which Summerside 119:

rd. in fact this. year aCIll:'III.V in creased, it is fair 9 cont-iudr Ilizii Y of

school education as a result expanded high school pi-nsram been p(RSiIilIf' otherwise. SCHOOL DIVISION N0. 1 "A year ago

5

of the problems confronting 59h90l They are free some in- the salary scale or do away with

Division No. i and gave

dlcation of the feeling of dissatis- 11 in N19 interests of they wish to do so. But the thing

faction that seemed apparent llll certain areas; particularly in th:-1 Village of Parkdale which asked for separation from the unit on financial grounds.

"My colleagues in the merit and myself were una . that time to form any clear pic- ture of the whole involved prob- lem. Consequently a course of action was taken in the hope that it would serve to clarify the situa- tion. First a plebiscite was held with the general idea that if it in-: dicated a desire for change. ihcn a Commission would be apnuiis cd to examine and make full cu- quiries into the formation and func- tioning of the unit and make rc- commendatlons on the advisability of dividing the school division into two or more districts. In the event of such a division this Commls sion would assess the distribulionl

I

of assets and liabilities. In announ-. cing the plebiscite a year ago I stated in this House. tion is being contemplated unless there is an overall majority favor-

ing it. NOT CONCLUSIVE

"The plebiscite held on April 2nd did not furnish a very con- clusive basis for action. The vote was extremely ligi. indicating a general lack of Ii...)I'8SI. in the issue. There were 579 ratepayers voted out of a total estimated at 2.500 or about 23 percent. The majority of those who voted. 359 or about 14 percent of the ratepayers favoured breaking up the Unit and a very large majority of those who voted favoured restoration school meetings. "I have already tabled the re-l port of the Commission. I want to

work accomplished by Judge Dar- by. Mr. Jardine and Mr. Hickey. The public hearings which they held brought out a great deal of information concerning the forma- tion of the Unit; the financial structure and the general feelings of the people in the district. It also showed I believe that the lar- ger unit did accomplish a great deal by way of educational im- provement. '

"The recommendations of the Commission are all worthy of our

pose to introduce some Legislation aimed at improving what the Com- mission termed "an unsatisfactory Iiasion between the Division Board and the ratepayers of the constitu- ent school areas" and aLso to im- plement their suggestions in re- gard to the Board of Trustees. SUBSIDY

"In regard to the two main financial recommendations I would like first to discuss briefly the one dealing with an annual subsidy "in order to assist the Division in meeting the annual cost. of the en- hanced program." I am unable to take the view that any part of the ordinary operating expenses could be properly subsidized by the Government unless it was prepar- ed to do the same for other lar- ger units both those now in exist- ence and those which may be formed in the future.

"It might indeed in desirable to subsidize larger units in order to promote them as undoubtedly they

s MacDon- Mrs lb.

Prowaallrallari IIII. .WDruceand llatrov.

would some many of our Island a y educalioiial problems. even though . School to linvc created others.

made during the formatltive days of the Unit. the regular running expenses of the School Division tishonld on the whole beniot gr-egg. ier than the running expenses would lint.-ii if the division were divided . land all schools operated separate- ly. Indeed the amalgamation by itself hv operating all classrooms in capacity and to best advantage as if is only possible to do in the

rind on in the varied at will depending largely 'on how much the School Board lwants to pay in teachers supple- YTICIIIS

expenses.

iIi'EI('llfll"S supnlnments. N0 COMPARISON

rirnvincn has anything to compare with it Second class teachers start be given hv ilie.ii” Parish Cuhs and of year supplcmonts start at S580 and may go to S1125 at the tenth year. Prin- cipals from 3480 in small schools is as follows lfnr the first year up to as high as Kensingtnn 43; iSi373.

then: are exceptions. you get in um-p ifwllcriiication as

liigzhlecoiinmlc society about what you of our are willing to pay for whether its buildings. equipment or more im- portant teaching staff.

I outlined certain the running expenses of the unit.

they now have a tax rate of only lSi.65 while enjoying all the advan- tages which make for educational Gm-em. improvement. This bla at itself is freely admitted.

lwould be justified to make special lmaintenance grants in order to

"no dissoiu- lie?-P

take this opportunity of expressing ms my appreclnmm for the very hm? isn't time to call for fenders .....:E.-....E...:.

Division No. 1 seem;

”Apart from capital expenditures

should have caused

program" .present1y car- Division can be

anrcd

and other overhead d

I refer first to the nIiil'j' SCZIIF. that is the scale of

"Certainly no rural area in the he iih S365 and go up at the rate

Sin pnr year until at. the tenth it roaches S725. First class

of

in other fields of

"There is however nothing necQ- arily fixed or unaiterable about

to adjust or lower

economy if

would like to point out is that

be

improvement

"However the tax rate will un-

doubtedly incrcase hut in many of our smaller towns and rural areas 'tax rates are much higher than in the Division. To use an extreme

example (although the situations are not comparable). there is one ruml school district with a tax rate of S6 31. and there are also many with rates of two to three dollars and upuards.

"Viewing the whole educational situation in the province and com- paring the tax potentials of various school districts with the education- al responsibilities they must dis- charge. I cannot see where we

"Now. a word on the productiv- It yof the sea in respect to those tiny plant-forms. In British Channel. which area is not as productive as our waters would be. production mile. Compare this with wheat. where six or seven hundred tons would be produced."

Fisheries in partment of Natural Resources. guest speaker at the weekl cheon meeting of Rotary held at the Charlottetown

ay.

"1 would like the currently

ions that we y danger of depleting our fisheries resources." Mr. Gorman said as a thorough This resource we of the development of 0; 19,115; much

the world. F,-ope,-13 upioned. in C0mP31'l5”- WW1 supplies about a day's supply 0! food calories. Of the world catch of

analysis sea fishing particularly activities culture down

"Plant life low a depth

Mr. Gorman

in the usual way- uog be u more expensive way to however. build a school depending on cir- and competence I cannot fully share of the Commission. the views taken by the Commis- pared to go to capital cos? I1: g:mmenmi&on.nAph:pmrtunlty will the cost of s m ar ac oo prov 0

mw at the ful deliberation lbywthe th if these tainly I would like to see e than they should sion area given the benefit of any reasonable doubt in order

they may Promote.

cumstances. sion in regard

erected elsewhere province. schools cost mor have cost that the . thousand dollars would certainly the extreme limit of any such possibly expand. tli t excessive capital cost which the tional policies of the I738-

mmission believes to have been T

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Rotary Told OI Vast I Richness OI Seq Growth

food chain from the diatom pro- duced on the surface layers of the ocean. "which unless eaten

Tests the

settles to the indicate an annual dead matter.

of 400 tons per square

This com- Wm" 31053

larger unit certain economies. parison was made by Eugene "The increased cost of tho "cu. Gorman. Director of Commercial for theucgldfialk

the Provincial De- "In

other words. Hotel yester-

to refute some of propounded opin- are in immediate

tons of the

proceeded to SIVO throughout

the realm of agri- through the years.

in 9090!

the food chain supiiortlna E.

It may or may incurred.

throughout I feel

sum of fifty

Central Royalty Residents

Important meeting Central Royalty Hull. Friday. March 2 at 8 pm. School oc- commodafion c n d location to be dis-

cussed.

carries substance of the baby her- ring. Then we will say the squid

ring and in turn becomes food takes ten pounds to produce a pound in the following we eat. represents 10 pounds squid. 100 pounds of pounds of little copepods Gorinan said.

the .'chness of the sea.

fish does not grow bev ' cm” of 250 feet at see but :;)h"::3 1:" 5:3; "- '3 nevmhele” um cljmernffl” conducted on the continental shelv- e' which constitute. as we said.

I then described the use of it. With all our equipment.

obs

FREE SEEDS!

Send one dollar for a regular size package each of our very best varieties of early and late beets. carrots. cucumbers. onions, paasnips. liltliaf agd head lettuce. radish and tomato (value tl.oo) an we w sen ABSOLUTELY Wl1'HtaU'fdgHARGII;.'

Ge i ofurnewPure o utter eansA i 50000"! in 5 "in 0l Spiiiirdliuahdmlgxhlbitlgn Mixture Sweet Peas. ' mer C.

,. . . ,. . . .

The copepod be-

d and all ,

(Value 11.45) to your door for 81.00!

This Special Introductory Offer is designed for new customers and Expires March 15th.

VESEY'S SEEDS, York. P. E. I.

in cats the her-

of these - steps. It

"aget 1” - our boats nets. electronic gear. of codmoll we are still the primitive hunter - stalking and snoring only the end product of the teeming pastures of it : deep. Ashore there is the science of agriculture; at sea we have as yet no ”Mariculture". We have much to learn - mauciin to do. hie . On concluding his mo terest- o';d:3:"w::I).-il if in address. the speaker. who had It presently been introduced by chairman Reg Jenkins. was thanked by the co- chairmsn Malcolm Reeves. Two new members were introd- uced and welcomed to the club by President Frank Curtis. The introd