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BY G. MacLeod Ross
This was the first public act
of the Queen after the peace Which
„ ended the Crimean'War,, Appro•
Canada . has a consideeable re• priateli► the tQllowin ere placed
utation for destroying the, old in in a copper box to be embP.4ded
favor of lie new and while early in. the foundation stone: A Crim -
u ted can medal -with 'four clasps; a
woohlenconstr coon invited
fires, theireimi beefs a good. deal •
.. "
rec
Victoria Cross, newly instituted
in Jeanuary 1856, same coins of
•: tife realm and .a vellum record-
ing the event. .After the Com.
Paulding Royal Engineer hadpre.
sented the plans to the Queen,
these to o . were• placed in the
Of .premeditated knockingdown
as well. Ttx Goderich for 'example eeve
we burnt the " Canada Company
. s the:Cqurt Hous
, _. the, ...
e,Coolie'
British Hotel, Tautdepnplished the
. Town. Hall., As someone once reg
marked: If Westminster Abbey
had been built in Goderich, there • A community college,' or Area
woul d not be one.stone upon
another today.
I dim not inferring that the En.
glish were any more careful, but
they seem to have got the fire.
bug out,of their systems earlier.
3Q0 years earlier to be exact. -
It was 1666 when they disposed
of most of London Town and, of
course, Vit. Paul's Cathedral went
at the same time; In an old
country you are conditioned to
architectural monuments from
birth, because they enshrine so
much of •your history. But in
a young country,, there is. even
more reason to preserve with'
discrimination. It is an oblig.
action to. posterity.
Consider for a moment, how
people, will revere that fortress.
like pile on the southern shore
front in A.D. 2267. You many
argue as you wish, but if we
still had Dr. Dunlopbs original
log cabin, flanked by Felty Fish.
ee
14, the counties of Perth,. Hur-
on, Waterloo and Wellington, 1s
still in the distant future.
A Spokesman for , the Area 14
community college board, which
held its inaugural session at
Stratford Thursday, said a site;
may not be picked .until 1970.
The meeting was attended by
Reeve Herbert Such, of Goder.
ich.
The Area 14 board, overseer
of the college of applied arts and
technology that will serve the
four counties, was the second,
.•last board set up in the province.
Peter Mason, Kitchener, was
elected chairinan of the board,
Vice-chairman Is A. F. Klink -
hammer, Galt. - -
The rest of the meeting was
devoted .to familiarizing board
"members with the idea of a
college of applied arts and tech-
nology and with their duties.
N. A. Sisco, director of the
er's grog shop in Harbour Park, " ' •
think .,what a tourist magnet it/
would . be. Someday , someone
Fat mers
will realize the tourist potential
of Goderich. ����ng
._._, All this is a pre u e o a
report that the Royal Victoria
Hospital at Ramble is beiiigdem.
olished. It may be more familiar
to -the, ever decreasing band of
'''World War 1 veterans if we
call it Netley Hospital. It is
familiar to me because for some
18 months in 1937.38 I was re.
sponsible for its maintenance -It
was then 81 years old and crumb.
ling: rapidly. Built on a lovely
wooden bank, overlooking. South.
ampton'at' could sit on
the • benches under the pines and
see all the world's finest ,ship.
ping go by, Just a stone's throw
away. The 'Queen', the Bremen
and the Ile de France among
many., others, all enhanced this
beautiful setting as they steamed
purposefully by.
The main building has a fron.
tage of 1,400 feet, faced south.
west and consisted of a central
ilkblock,fla. iliedby-two'e tall wings:
The whole was thr e storeys
.high and comprised 1,000 beds.
y • Quarters, kitchens, stores and
other ancillary buildings' were
dotted about the grounds. The '
foundation stone was laid on May
19, 1856 by Queen Victoria, who
arrived at the pier in the 'Vic-
toria and 'Albert', accompanied
by the 'Fairy' and followed by a
flotilla of gun -boats, Prince 'Al.
.. bert the consort, the Prince of
Wales (Edward VIII), the Prin.
cess- Royer -and he-Huchess of
Wellington were in attendance.
CLOTHING
CARE HINTS
From•
BLUEWATER
CLEANERS,
MENS
Bogie 4, Mont emery 7;
Dauphin 2, Sowerby 9; Vanstone
17, Westbrook 0; Roberston 11,
Johnston 7; R. Fisher 11, R. Ginn
7. Harman leading 4 Wins plus
13.
Pete McCauley says:
DO:—
Give your clothing regular
dry cleaning care. Perspiration
stains and deodorant stains will
discolor fabric if not removed.
Scratch or rub a stain_in. the
new man-made fabrics. This
could break - the fibres, • and
cause the stained area to remain
dark ,after the stain • has been
removed. -
If, .you are NEW -TO -TOWN or
have just moved. into .8 new
home •
GODERICH'S OWN .'. .
MIXED FARMERS
Fisher 17, Baer •4; Jewell 5,
Moore 6; So.3verby 5, Westbrook
7; Hallam .. 3, Lobb • 9; Durst, 3,
Montgomery 6. Durst -leading
7 wins. 3
4
ti.ends
ting_.
technological and trades train-
ing branch of the Ontario de.
partment of education, discuss.
ed with the board the , educa.
tional goals which The colleges '
have been designed to,meet,
The first problem ,,facing the
new board is the selection of
a name for the college. Once
the name has been officially app-
roved by. the Council of Regents
and the Minister of Education,
the board will be incorporated.
'Basically the duties of the
board of governors are to de.
termine._ the general and special,
education needs the ` college
should meet; supervising con.
struction of new college build.
ings, and staffing and opera -fig
the new institution.
Dr.. H. H. Kerr, chairman of
the Council of Regents, was also
present 6.nd outlined the mem.
bers to the board their duties
box. in those days Queen
toria personally signed the gen,
era) elevational plans of all m
nary barracks and hospitals.
They were still to be foundt . in
the sub.sub l .sement of OW War
Office in 1925, where They •were
in my, charge,together with some
wonderful surveys of suchislanda
as St. ° Lucia the, work, surpriss
ingly, of an `s 1fieer :of:the Royal
Welch•Fusiliers.
- 'T=he -Queen:.. ilea the stone
with, plummet and leyel'and-taap•--
ped it in the usual form, take
ing counsel with Lord Panmure
as to the correct andtruly mas•
onic method of doing so." The
.trowel was elegently chased and
bore an inscription, whilethe
mallet "was of tasteful design" -
both designed by'Mr, J. E. Hell.
yer of Cosham, near Portsmouth
and not to be confused with 'our
Hellyer' of integratio n notor.
M.O. This done , the Queen at
once boarded the Royal yacht
and left for Osborne. The pol-
iticos followed the yacht a short
distance.,and then partook of ,a
grand banquet with fireworks to '
follow. The occasion was'marred
by the premature explosion of
one ofthe guns on the gunboat
'Hardy'. Two seamen wereblown
to bits. Thus Netley rose!
I will not bmre you with accounts
of ni r-bwn tribulations at Netley.
The walls were damp, the paint
failed to adhere, ceilings collap-
sed, the problem of getting food
and responsibilities.
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Rivett 12, Ginn 2; Westbrook
4, Young 10; Feagan 5, Sturdy
15; Johnston 1, Vanstone 15;',Young
leading 5 wins.
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to the patients hot Proved Wool.
ubie, while the operating theatre
was insufficienly heated; On top
of all these problems, the War
Office decided to proof the whole
immense pile against ges,.blast
and collapse, .,Hitler's Luftwaffe
was rubbing its .wings,. bat •can .
you imagine such a proposition?
I collected one good story. In
the main entrance hall, ..whio?
resembled the Bxitisk' M'uSeu ,
was. a.40,ssas,stutt_od;
birds..,nrP ,ho�-..,_Insitle:1th
a fad44paleblue:crocheleTaliawl
the work atthe Queen herself;.H�ei+
instructions were that it should
. be placed round the- shoulders
of any soldier when about to die..
You can imagine the effect this
threat had upon • the inmates.
Every patient was for Barer watch.,.
ing the door. of the ward td see
if the Queen's shawl was t being
brought in.
Starting in 'December 1666, the
demolition of .old Netley began.
On Oec., 'i the'cdpper box' which
had by this time become a bronze
box, was dug out and, opened
by, the OoMmanding Officer, Col•
ones 1FH Murphy. `RAMC. There ..
4o.f9104 the Victoria Cross and
the crimean meda. The suggest•
ton .that -this Netley VC' was the
prototype haus been disputed, In-
cidentally the Russian • bronze
gun, captured iii the Crimea,. from
•which 'tib metal for. all, VC's is
cut 'Is at Woolwich Arsenal; .still
With lots of metal ; to spare,
. S o,.111`etiey is coming down, but
will rise again on the same site
in all the .lavish appointments and,..
improvementswhich the medical
profession has devised 'over 110
-years. -The first Netley cost,,.
in 1856 sterling, sinne 200,000
pounds, Heaven only knows what it '
will cost today)
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