Articles recovered by R.C.M.P. following series of thefts from Shawnigan Lake summer homes,

guns taken from Wilson and Lenfesty, and costume articles owned by Victoria Girls’ Drill Team,

examined by Constable Wilfred G. Lambert. instrumental in recovering property valued at $1,000

Ex-Provincial Police

Get Pay Break

IT LOOKS AS though members of
the provincial police force taken over
by the R.C.M.P. are getting a break
in pay.

There were loud complaints at the
time of the transfer over lower salary
schedules in the national police force
and to compensate for the difference
in pay it was agreed by the province
to make a severance grant to the men.

The grant was the difference in
pay at the time of the transfer for
the period up to March $31, 1952.

It was to be paid in two lump sums,
one this month and the second before
the end of March next year.

Increases in the federal scale were
announced from Ottawa recently and
the feeling in provincial circles is that
the new R.C.M.P. salary rates will
have no effect on the severance grant.

This means the ex-members of the
B.C. Police force now in the R.C.M.P.
will be the best-paid Mounties in
Canada up to the end of March, 1952.

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Ex-Mounties Well Represented in Vets

Association's Book °

UBLICATION of the Veterans’
| eects of the Royal North

West Mounted Police, ‘Scarlet
and Gold,” marks its 3Ist anniversary
with an impressive 150-page issue
which provides an opportunity for
former members of the force, from

the time it was the North West
Mounted, to publish interesting
reminiscences.

While reports of secretaries of dif-
ferent divisions, membership rolls and
other articles on the veterans’ associa-
tion activities make its appeal mainly
for ex-members of the famous force
there are a number of articles which
will interest the general public.

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