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“Sherwood” became the name | dary. { of the island's largest village in. A major project for the new | of 16 men, . 1961, with the unanimous village. during the past year | as special meeting of has been the erection of @ ts,-2 commissioners. hall ig ip the vicinity of firemen. ; approved this $20,000. Begun in October, con-' man of the fire department. meeting the previous struction on the building is ex- The department has two fire ‘petition was sent to pected to be completed im the trucks, one pumper with a cap- Lieutenant-Governor - in- | very near future. jacity of 500 gallons per minute, that the name THREE VEHICLES and two lines of two and one 4 é | ‘The 40 by 61 foot building will |half inch hose, having a four d under the name house three fire vehicles, police |inch intake. The other is a 200 Royalty in July of station, a commissioners’ meet- | Sallon tanker truck with an at- village includes the ing room, 18 by 24 feet, and a|tached pump, supplying 90 gal- the north side of Bel- | recreation room for the firemen. |1ous per minute. It has two lines Avenue and the east «ide It is located on Gordon Drive of one and one half inch hose. Falconwood Drive, along with | near St. Peter’s Road. | John Norton, former member. Parkdale boun-' The village volunteer fire de- of Charlottetown police force,

The need of a greatly extend- program of calfhood. vaccina- for bangs disease is stressed by Dr. H.H. Kelly, provincial director of veterinary services. | There were twice as many i vaccinated in 1961 as in previous year, but the num- ber is still far below what it should be, the director emphasiz- ed, The province has been free of the disease of contagious ab- ortion for many years but that is no reason why the vaccinat- - program should not be push-

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Many cattle sales are lost each , T.R. Furness left but Dr. Kelly | because animals have not | expects a third may be avail-

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Disease control is needed

been vaccinated and they are able when the new classes of barred automatically from many | veterinary students graduate in places where Island cattle are | May.

normally shipped.

Dr. Kelly also reported on de- velopments within the profes- |

sion in the province.

Dr. M.H. Clark and Dr. B.H. |

Rhiel, Kensington have

pletely remodelled the old Ken-

ing now, he said.

in Cl my ‘Town Planning Act was made | ment; matching grants are avail. | with the P.E.1. Rural Beautifi- _¢ Mainly regulations are de- tast summer when regulations able for tree planting as loans cation Society in an endeavour Signed to Provide # measure of covering summer cottage {ots for the provision of fire protec- to help eliminete unsightly, poor-

. | A new squadron was added to |

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co-op-|co-operative homes early ining people who would otherwise | well and we are looking forward oe ous co Bp vince | 1961,” “hs . find it difficult to acquire hom- to its continued success.”

on g s and|. There are ix co-operative es-in any other way and thus|. Mr. Sangster said that —al-

4 t,* ‘housing projects in the Char- provide suitable accommodation though a co-operative home

for themselves and their famil- ies, SLOW PROCESS

“Many people have expressed the opinion that the co-operative method of building hames is a slow process. This is perfectly true, and only those who sin- cerely need homes are likely to stick to such a program. The program, however, is working

4 ‘Reld Sangster, i lottetown area, with a seta} ae " i¢ Provincial Hou-' homes under construction. - _ e ler co-operative projects and the Tit will be |, he said, number of homes involved are hat in late 1990, 10 prospec- Summerside, 10; Borden, five; owners in the Souris | O'Leary, ates Bunbury, seven;

a ative Souris, 10. The aplash they | “lt ts hoped,” sald Mr, Sang- Saliiamounted to ster, “that the co-operative when $3 members in home building program _ will bullding! have the desired effect of help-

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building program for 1962 has | not been completed, a few groups have expressed themselves as being interested in building.

It was pointed out by Mr. Sangster that the act under iwhich the housing commission works encompasses considerab- ‘ly more than the construction of homes under a co-operative jplan. - | “It is the hope of the com- | | mission,” said Mr. Sangster, to | broaden its scope and. include | some of the other purposes for | which it was intended.

“Some of these things will be to study housing needs and con- | ditions in the province; to col- | lect and distribute information concerning housing; to stimulate the creation of planning boards under the Town Planning Act, , and to confer and co-operate with |rural districts, cities, towns, vil- lages, boards of health and other planning boards in the pro- vince concerning housing condi- tions and the rules and regula-

Providing guidance for the! Of all permits issued in the land into- sub-ivisions. Plans

ly development of com: past 1! years, 779 were for for subdivisions must first be wnities is the function of the dwelling units. submitted to the division for ap- wn planning division of the pouR VILLAGES proval before a permit is grant- of industry and 9&-| When the town planning divi. ¢¢. | sion was formed there were four; Since ‘the division was formed n Plan- | incorporated villages in the pro. over 10 miles of sub-divisions -the divi-| vince. Now there are 17. Each | have been opened up in the pro-

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was started in 1926 by. the late Milton Bell. Since his death the | business has been run by his widow, Mrs. Reta Bell and his |

In the past few years there have been many changes. Three | | years ago the Dairy King bar |

There has been no_veterinar- | cated next door to the res-|

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ian in the O'Leary district since Dr. L. Kirk left in mid-February

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taurant was started with -side-' | walk service on ice cream, hot | dogs, etc.

ting two veterisariass to wie In March of 1959 the dining into that district as soon as the | new crop of graduates are avail- | tables sington dairy building and have | able. Dr. Kelly has talked lo two color scheme. an up to date veterinary build- men from the university at St. |

portion of the restaurant was completely remodelled with new booths, complete new

, drapes, etc.. completing renovations started

Hyacinth, Quebec who seem | the year before-to the front of There have been only the two | interested in coming to the pro-- the restaurant which included

veterinarians there since Dr. | vince.

new coffee bar and stools, etc, |

Last year the total current re- venue .was $1,550,540 while the total expenditures amounted to $1,544, 097. In 1960 the revenue was $1,397,669 while the ekpen- ditures were $1,461,030.

The increase in revenue was said to be largely due to an in- crease in tax rate and also to a concerted effort to collect the arrears of both secured and un-

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5-year has seen a new area come | Vince. . On }under the r ions of th RAN wail maGA | vision, In the 17 villages.there Province up to a an estimated population feet from the’ 10

re and parts of su-!" What Mr. Smith consid a a | What Mr. Smith considers a,

tions for improving such condi-

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“Greater attention, also, will be devoted to low-rental hous- ing. The commission will be in- terested, too, in co-operating

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is} In outlining the advantages of of ¢ommunities becoming incorpor- ated, Mr. Smith said that grants un to $3.75 per capita are avail- very important addition to the) able. for . community « ‘improve-

| over the sizes of lots, added, tion can be had. sof rere of Mainly, the regulations cover| “We give assistance to com- and the cation the size of lots on which cottages munities so that they can be'p buildings themselves,” said Mr, Smith.

He also pointed out that he feels

ly planned and poorly construct- ed houses which are a blot on our country side.”

Other members of the com- mission are Al Belliveau, vice-

| can be built. Lots must now have | »/ a minimum of 7,500 square feet.

aude “there's @ In the past, when the lot size there are several communities chairman, Alfred Hennessey, for everything; for im- was not governed, cottagers in the province that are now architect; Gleason Williams, . Industry does not fit In-| were running into serious sew- ready for incorporation, building inspector; William Me- a residential area.” age problems because cottages| ‘All that is needed for incor- ggison, manager. { The division's control is exer- were built too close together. | poration is that.the community Provincial town planning dir- eised through the granting z Also recent amendments to the have a population of: at least ector Claude Smith is_an_advisor}-—

‘act govern: the layiig ott 67 100," he said. ‘to the commission.

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