also a very good source of meteorological FAIRWAY GROCERY data, sending this information by radio. | Phone 350 MUMFORD'S purine oe Pee of ee Corfield Motors Limited If you get it at , cases, the police boat is oiten used as a : 2 ee it's Oe » hotel, as well as a conveyance. Where the Sales + Service secs Oil crime occurs in a sparsely populated area, Ford — Monarch Cars CUMBERLAN Dk and there is no accommodation available, || AND B.C. technical investigators and others work- | Courtenay, B. C. ing on the case use the boat as quarters, so that they can stay “on the job” till the work is done. “Home was never like this’ Some of the trips are not too comfort- | KING GEORGE HOTEL able, even in the relatively protected P. LEO ANDERTON ) waters of Howe Sound. On one occasion . FRANK ECCLES, Proprietor | the writer was going up the Sound in one Notary Public | LICENSED PREMISES of the police boats and met a “Squamish” Real Estate and Insurance R ie e or wind which blows down the sound | Phones 42 and 364-R easonable hates | from the narrow valley of the Squamish | Courteney British Columbi Fully Modern | River. With the tide just right, this can * raise quite a “dust-up”. It became neces- CUMBERLAND B.C. sary to make a turn, bringing the vessel as — ,—— _ abeam with the seas. This requires nice timing, seeking a relatively low wave || han | when making aturn. The writer had gone | BILL RICKSON below to get something, when suddenly | f WAVE RLEY HOTEL the ship appeared to roll on her beam Men’s Wear | HE Enoprislors ends. Landing in one corner, followed |) e Pasig L) by a shower of cups and dishes, and |} ; LICENSED PREMISES ) finally with a Pyrene fire extinguisher, Union Street Courtenay, B. C. e indicated that the “nice timing” had not : CUMBERLAND B.C. been quite “nice” enough. But outside of a bump or two, no damage was done.

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tightened. But this action saved the boat | Vancouver Island e from slipping off the ledge. Later, the | 4th and Angus Port Alberni, B. C. skipper organized the salvage of the boat, and after lightening her by removing

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