October 23, 1919. THE DAILY NEWs Page 3 "Just Arrived - Fresh and Crisp CHRISTIE'S = MARVEN’S \sst. lee Wafers Cocoanut Bar { inut Bar Cocoanut Fingers anut Brittle B Fluted Vanilla swiss Choeolate Ginger Wafers | Bar | Social Tea Ginger Nut Fig Bar teed Animal S Fancy Wine tus Creams Sy itanas Peach Bar Arr yroot . Ginger Bar As Fruit Sandwich Honey Fingers Abernethy U Apricot Wafers \sst. Biseuits Lemon Snaps {pple Blossom I Royal Milk Lunch Cherry Rings Chocolate Drops Cafe Noir Popular Mixed jelly Wafers T Sultanas Lemon Snaps Special (set. Marshmallow S Apple Blossom Marshmallow Fingers fHloney Fingers yal Canadian Afternoon Tea SPECIAL! SPECIAL! 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Grills, Irons, Toasters, and Fixtures. ates furnished on House wiring and Motor installation MARINE DEPARTMENT Agents for Regal Gasoline Engines for trolling Caille Perfection Motors Titan Storage Batteries Mosier Spark Piug lug that was chosen for the Transatlantic flights Our service department will help you to plan your Lighting Equipment. A full line of Dynamos, Storage Batteries, Switch boards, Conduit, Cable, Lamps, Searchlighis, ete. We make Lighting Sets to Sult Your Boat Batteries charged and repaired (no time lost while ittery is being charged, we have one at your disposal. Avenue (opposite Post Office) PHONE 125 Estin The Pp ey t ga Your Third. See ALBERT @ McCAFFERY before you purchase Anything in the Building Line We handle ce Rupert Spruce Co.’s Lumber B. C. Mill’s Fir Cement Plaster Shingles Laths — Albert & McCaffery, Ltd. Prin Lime Brick | PRIVATES GET MOST JOBS IN CIVIL SERVICE Only 22 Officers Given Positions aud Nine of Those Enlisted as Privates. COMMUNITY SETTLEMENT 18 A GREAT SUCCESS — Special Correspondence. VICTORIA, Oct. 23.—Criticism has heen leveled at the Provincial Government from time to time by reason of its alleged indifference to the lot of the returned sol- dier. Lacking either the desire to be accurate or any inclination to discover the facets, an impres- sion has been created that the Civil Service Act has failed ut- terly to redress the wrongs of an obsolete system, which had scant | regard for merit and was equally indifferent to a Government's ob- ligation where the returned man was concerned, Detecting an attempt on the part of some ‘who still owe their allegiance to a former regime and ittracted by the more recent ut- terances of the Leader of the Op- position himself—who declared from the public platform a few days ago that, as far as he could see, the only soldier who stood a chance with the present govern- mefit was the officer—the Hon. J. D. MacLean, Minister of Bdu- cation and Provincial secretary, has just completed a survey of the appointments made since the ‘ivil Service Act went into force on July 1, 1918, up to the pres- ent time. Shows the Facts The result of that investiga- tion is now authorized for publi- cation. It reveals the fact that during the sixteen months in whieh the Act has been in oper- ation no less than 220 former members of the Canadian Expe- ditionary Foree have been re- nstated in thein former or bet- ‘er positions in the public ser- vice of the Province. The re- port also gives the number of the new appointments filled exclu- sively by returned soldiers dur- ing the sixteen months in ques- tion as 146, Out of this number, however, it is pointed out by Dr. MacLean, only twenty-two have been filled by the “officer class,’ which alleged by the Opposition Leader to have had all the show. Even with this small number of posi- tions going to those members of the C.E.F. who possessed com- missioned rank, the official statis- tics disclose that no less than nine of that number’ entered Canada’s army through the pri- vate’s door. That is to say, 124 members of the Civil Service were either privates or non-com- missioned officers at the time of doning and at the time of doffing khaki, and that nine out of the twenty-two officer-members of the publie service became elevat- ed to commissioned rank during their career in the army abroad. In the light of this information —-which is accessible to any Brit- ish Columbian who considers the information the subject of suffici- ent importance to direct his or Her inquiry to the Civil Service Commissioner—it will be seen ‘hat to all intents and purposes thirteen of the “officer class’* on- ly were appointed to positions and that the remaining 133, re- ferred to as having been appoint- d within the period under review, were privates or non-commis- oned officers. Community Soldier Settlement. It is interesting to note, more- over, British Columbia's progress in other phases of repratriation: This Provinee, for instance, has set the pace for the British Em- pire in its community soldier settlement. undertakings. Al- though dubbed “economically unsound” by the Federal author ities, the original proposal e- volved on board the Empress ef Asia on her long trip from Liver- pool to British Columbia was not to languish in official pigeon holes. The Provine ial Land Settlement Board its possibilities and purchased large tracts of land at Courtenay and at Creston—other areas will be ac- —_ later—in order that every ractical clement with definite economical possibilities could be put to test. It is, of course, plon~ eering work; but popular consent already has been given a unani- mously favorable verdict. Apropos of clearing work in its relation to this class of settle- is allowed saw ment—-in itself a prime economic factor in the working out of such an ambitious project it is in teresting to obserwe the official figures just issued for publica pLion by the Hon. BE. D. Barrow, Minister of Agriculture. particu larly in view of the fact that alarming reponts are abroad hinting at abnormal capital charges to be borne without hope of resulls commensurate Feverse, in fact, is the Di rector W. 8. Latta, of the Provin cial Land Settlement Board, the authority for an offcial jJoinder to the suggestion referred to. He deals with the following operations at Melville—Courten ay’s chosen name for its settle. ment shows that actual clearing has been carried out by the soldiers themselves at a sub- stantially lower figure per acre than estimates given to the Gov ernment for similiar work by out case, is re. and side contractors. Colonel Latta states that the actual cost of clearing 147.7 feres——which ineludes blasting fonkey work, burning, ete., leav ing the land ready for levelling ind plowing, has averaged $210.- 24 per acre. And it must be remembered that Merwille’s rain fall is in the neighbirhood of six- ty inches per anntim, that fact alone accounting for heavy timber and.rank growth; but also for deep and excellent soil. Rough clearing in respect of 72.8 acres he pointed out, cost $91.04 per acre, Cheap Ready-Made Farms Fach farm—referring in this instance to Farms No. 32 to 40 has ten to twenty acres cleared, Continued on Page 5. 16} OAR D A. W. EDGE CO. 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