Week
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contributor: W. Blakemore
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1911-02-25
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note: The Week _\ British Columbia Newspaper an, Published at Victoria, B. Vol. IX. No. 8 Eighth Year THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUA' |a prompt settlement The Provincial Government deserves he thanks of the citizens of Victoria for aaving made a prompt settlement in the patter of the municipal muddle. It is possible that the settlement will not please werybody, indeed The AVeek Avould have I .referred another method of dealing with ne situation, but there were interests involved which had to be very carefully considered and safeguarded by the action of ;he Government, and when it is remembered that the chief obligation resting up- >n the supreme authority was to relieve he situation as quickly as possible and set he municipal machinery in motion again, O'that the public interests should not suf- 'er, it must be conceded that the solution qund is probably the best that could be ipvised. It invol\'es the minimum of de- ay ; it provides the machinery for carry- rig on the government of the City; it pro- ufes the preparation of neAV lists by an independent authority, and the holding of 11 election as soon as the lists are ready; nd this decision will have been embodied i.a legislative Act Avithin three or four ays of the disqualification of the Mayor nd Council There is one feature of the ise which may not have occurred to Vic- mans, but Avhich must have been present i-tbe minds of the Government; viz., the importance ;of. avoiding, anything which ould create the impression* iii Eastern riancial circles that, a position of any iriousness had been created in connection (ith Victoria's municipal affairs.- All that iinains now is for the Revision Comniis- on to get to work at once, to employ as irge a staff as possible and' to hasten the pie of election. Meanwhile the citizens ould do well to devote the next; few Aveeks a careful consideration of certain facts Ihich have been brought out in connection nth the present situation. The first is liat the very careful and sound judgment m…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: publisher not identified (1904-1906) The Week Publishing Co., Ltd. Offices (1906-1907) "The Week" Publishing Company, Limited (1907-1918) publisher not identified (1918-1920)
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Victoria (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0344033
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : ""The Week"" Publishing Company, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text