EARLY SETTLERS IDEA.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2113, 2 April 1914, Page 3

EARLY SETTLERS IDEA.

SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY-

The Eiirly Settlers' Assooktion a : f« cte-, sirmis that next Anniversary Day, tthwJiwill mark t-he completion of soveiity-Jivo years siiiee tjjo foundation ef lon Province, shall be celebrated us ft manner toflttin.g thft occa-sion anxl.tte city. Yesterday a deputation fwni the society, bended liy tke Hon: J.-E. Jcn■Wnsou, waited on the Mayor (Mr. .1P, Luke), anil ana-do tta stAggf>Btwn that same special effort ought to fie made to make the occasion a rncmor-. { able one. They specially askod that tho-Carnival authorities slfflnld not- ar-. j-aiiße dates which would dash iv.itJi tho '.two days' RTiaiversarj- functions. 'Ih«bo two days would bo Anniversary Day aiUl tho day following, with, perhaps, special thanksgiving servises on Sunday. Jir. Jonkinsoii suggested that tlie Eai'ly Settlers' fflignt work in with the Carnivel .t)(?&P% *•■> that both fic-lfibratiovis could be lleM ;"»*• the same time. In that event ti:e Early Settlers' Association woii.ld .iffit wish' to interfere in tlie running of the Carnival, but would eoiicentrate t-ucH , f.forts o» makiii" proviswi-i for the proBer entertoifunen't of all early settlors who misht bo present, He a.sfcpd the Major to os-tcud his sympathy t_'.i the sfiftente. and to assist the association i'i fiamiitf! the sympa% of the eotincit. " Sir. Ltike, k reply, said that Ie thought the suggestion a very good we. The celebrations, on tlio occasiaft o , thfl fiftieth a-iH-nverSary, had -excelfcut, 'and his ojjinion was that sametirma should certainty he,de-no to. tingly mark tlie sevcnty-fiMi ftHfiive-f' sai-y. , Concerning tiro suggi?st.ioii tlvat the anniversary celcbratiaris slipnld .be merged .With the Carnival., ho. could am? ■raica his oini opinions. Ho thought that it- was an excellent, idea, find -one that dosew-ed. the sor.ious consideration

by th© Oarji.ivsi} Committee. ' Be -evw tknißhi? that it would bo a good idea !«/' fix the' carnival dates so tkit thoy sljovM inclttie- Anniversary Bay every year. Ho woitld put the sttgßSstiaius by . deputation before the parmvaS Committee, and also. brferft tho City Co'unoil, and he hoped that they.would be taken up enthusiastically. , Tho as* saetatictn liad, he thought, been Very Wise ill bringing \tp the matter ca.rly.