Week
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contributor: W. Blakemore
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1910-02-26
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note: ^inryinrrjrrsTfVTnnnnnnnnnnf Let us show you the new Pocket Edition Gillette Safety Razor TERRY CASH CHEMIST a^ S.B. comer Fort an 1 Douglas „. CfcH 8 9 tt V.9JL_UL_ULSL_VL_l_UL_VL_l_ULs3 Vol. yl No. J The Week fl British Columbia Review, Published at Victoria, B. &. gyyffTrrgyyyyrryK^niiTTTinraa HALL & WALKER 3 Agents "j WELLWCTOII COLLIERY 3 COMPANY'S COAL 3 1232 Government St. Telephone 83 3 pSaaiittitBB*ia*aaaooooooo^ftSg THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY a6, 1910 One Dollar Per Annum THE POLICE COMMISSIONERS The Police Commissioners of Victoria are bad men. They are appointed under a vicious system, which ought to be put an end to at once. This is tlie Jeremiad of the Victoria Times, which refuses to be comforted, even though Alderman Bishop and Mr. Leonard Tait are by its own admission citizens of irreproachable j character, who have been before the public for many years without the slightest complaint having been lodged against either of them. The only difference between the two men is that the one lives within land the other a few yards without the City I Boundaries, and yet, according to the I Times that few yards makes all the differ- lence. If between sun-down and sun-rise [some enterprising contractor should move |Mr. Tait's house one hundred yards south, lthe principal objection of the Times to Ihis appointment as Police Commissioner Iwould be removed. If this is not a re- luctio ad absurdum The AVeek is unable Ito recall one, especially as Mr. Tait, although not residing technically within the fcity limits, possesses considerable property }n Victoria, and has for more than twenty ^ears pursued his business avocation there. )ne would think that a man of the highest liersonal character, who had honourably lilled the position of public school master, Jvould possess special qualifications for a Police Connnissionership, in that he Ivould be bound to aim at a high standard, Ind to do his utmost to rid the City of liny abuses which might have crept in; Indeed, af…
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: 10.14288/1.0344254
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