net has played a distinguished role in com-

Everything in bating crime and no less valuable has been

Hardware, Plumbing, Tinsmithing, its help where fire, flood and disaster called

Furniture, Electric Appliances,
Beatty Pumps and Barn
Equipment

McLennan McFeely & Prior,

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Successors to

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for immediate aid to stricken communiti
and individuals. =
On many occasions medical instruct
have been radioed to northern p
planes have been summoned to
sick and injured to hospital,
portable sets operated from co
munities isolated by storm or flood
have been the means of summoni
much needed supplies and medi
Wartime duties have incre
the value of the police radio
the personnel has been consider
increased. Working in close
operation with the armed fore
every police operator is now, r
than ever before, alive to his res

ae

Mortgages, Loans, Conveyancing Corner of the workshop, showing SrLVESIMEber being sibilities and ready for any &

Vernon, B.C. erected. Police build all their own equipment.

gency.

“MOTIVES of private interest or State
rr ee
ake p
NATIONAL HOTEL her allies. But though France may have
WHEN IN VERNON Allies, it is impossible that the French
New — Modern — Up-to-date Republic can have any, who are~so sin-
FULLY LICENSED — REASONABLE RATES cerely.”

DELL ROBISON, Proprietor From the leader in The Times of October
Vernon, B. C. 3rd, 1798, in which the news of Nelson’s
victory at the Nile had been announced.
Even in those days the British Press ap-
parently tried to draw a distinction between
Sidney Spyer a people and their Government, and if the
words “Germany” and “The Nazi Govern-
COSSITT, BEATTIE & SPYER ment” were substituted for the words in
italics, this paragraph might have been

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Vernon, B. C. PROMOTED

ANOTHER well-earned promotion an-
nounced from Headquarters in January,
was that of Chief Clerk James S. Lord of
VERNON HOTEL Vancouver Motor Licence office, who has

T. J. Broderick, Manager just been made Sub-Inspector.
Where Personal Services Make Your Sub-Inspector Lord joined the British
Stay Enjoyable Columbia Police in November, 1926, and
REASONABLE RATES — LICENSED PREMISES during ‘his 16 years’ service has handled
e

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° many important administrative tasks in the
Motor Branch. A few years ago he was

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Motor Licence headquarters.

Page Seventy

NEW MEMBERS FOR THE
“THIRTY YEAR CLUB”

ANOTHER couple of old timers in
police were inducted into the “Thirty
Club” when Const. W. B. Stewart (K
meos), completed 30 years’ service
the force on July 1st, and right on
heels (July, 3rd), Const. Conrad F. O
(Prince Rupert), rounded out his th
decades of public service.

Few newcomers give thought to what
behind those five green stars on the
cuff of a man with 30 years’ service, bu
a force such as the B. C. Police whe
policeman’s duty takes him from the fron —
tier to the city, from coastal fog to 30
below, there’s enough action packed in 30
years’ service to fill a couple of good sized

books.

Salute, old timers, for your long
faithful service.

THE FIRST TEA TAX

THE first tax on tea in England was —
imposed in 1660. It was not on tea in the ~
packet but on tea in the cup. Sixteen cents _
a gallon was levied on all tea brewed for sale
This was because it used to be brewe
large quantities and then drawn off by
pint, like beer.

COLONEL: “Why on earth are you n
climbing trees and crawling through |
bushes?” ,

Private: “Well, sir, we camouflaged the
guns before lunch and now we can’t find
them.””-—Annapolis Log.

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