http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0315421
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issued: 2016-08-24
issued: 1913-09-06
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note: Tfi&*". iP&E* CHINOOK Vol. II. No. 17. VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1913 Price 5 cents Five Thousand Pupils Attend South Vancouver's Schools One Quarter Million Dollars Is Teachers' Annual Salary Mr. William Kirk'.and, Secretary Board of School Trustees, South Vancouver Municipal Solicitor is Prosecuting "Chinook" for Alleged Libel Mr. Colin H.Clarke Places His Case in Hands of Attorney-General Bowser's Law Firm and Demands Unstated Damages From Greater Vancouver Publishers Limited, for Calling Him Inefficient Fifteen Big, Modern School Buildings, Containing One Hundred and sixty-eight Class Rooms, Accommodate this Army ��� 9 * Schools Cost Ratepayers Nearly Million and a Half and A re Finest in British Columbia Mr. Colin M. Clarke, South Vancouver's solicitor, with offices at the Municipal Hall, through his lawyers, Me'ssrs. Bowser, Reid and Wallbridge. of Vancouver, has brought a libel action againsl the editor oi the "Chinook" eever an article appearing mi the editorial page of ihis paper last week. Mr. Clarke, who was appointed to his present position about "iu- year ago, and whose tenure of office has not been one long season of peace and tranquility, branded the "Chinook's" statements a* being false ami cowardly, and declared thai unless an apology and retraction was promptly made, or the truth of the statements proved, he would resign Iiis position. It is quite probable thai the matter will go to the courts, and if such developments lake place, the newspaper will be forced to prove wherein Mr. Clarke, as a public servant, is inefficient. Much interest is centred on the libel action, li is believed testimony will be required of many persons associated with municipal life in the district. Mr. Justice Morrison, according in the alleged libel, reprimanded the solicitor, and in the event of an action, Ilis Lordshlp'i exact words in rebuking the South Vancouver man may be repealed as evidence. The article in question was as follows : "Inefficienc…
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