Order in Council 2058/1956
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2058 Approved and ordered this 13th day of August , A.D. 19 56 At the Executive Council Clunnher, Victoria, PRESENT: The Honourable in the Chair. Mr. Bennett Mr. Black Mr. Kiernan Mr. Chetwynd Mr. Martin Mr. Chant Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. To His Honour Lieutenant-Governor in Council: The Artincivisaaanctratitarroatt The undersigned has the honour to recommend: - 411‘/4 •1 49 lia.4 THAT in accordance with the provisions of section 33 of the "Provincial Elections Act, 1953", being chapter 5 of the Statutes of 1953 (Second Session), an election be held in all the electoral districts for the election of members to serve in the Legislative Assembly: THAT under the provisions of the said section 33 of the said Act, the fifth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and fifty- six, be appointed the day in all the electoral districts for the nomination of candidates for election as members to serve in the Legislative Assembly, and that,writs of election be issued in accordance with section 40 of the said Act: AND THAT the undermentioned places be appointed the places for the nomination of candidates for election as members to serve in the (",to-lett Legislative Assembly in the respective electoral districts, the A4L4t...:, names of which are set opposite such places, that is to say:- Electoral District Place of Nomination Alberni Court House, Alberni Atlin Police Office, Stewart Burnaby Municipal Hall, Burnaby Cariboo Court House, Quesnel Chilliwack Court House, Chilliwack Columbia Government Office, Golden Comox Court House, Courtenay Cowichan-Newcastle Court House, Duncan Cranbrook Court House, Cranbrook Delta Municipal Hall, Cloverdale Dewdney Police Office, Mission City Esquimalt Municipal Hall, Esquimalt Fernie Court House, Fernie Fort George Court House, Prince George Grand Forks-Greenwood Court House, Grand Forks Kamloops Court House, Kamloops Easlo-Slocan Court House, Kaslo Lillooet Court House, Lillooet Mackenzie Government Office, Powell Aiver Nanaimo and The Islands Court House, Nanaimo Nelson-Creston Court House, Nelson New Westminster Court House, New Westminster North Okanagan Court House, Vernon . L, [ORDER IN COUNCIL No. Electoral District Place of Nomination North Vancouver City Hall, North Vancouver Oak Bay Municipal Hall, Oak Bay Omineca Government Office, Burns Lake Peace River North Government Office, Tort St. John. Peace diver Jouth Government Office, Pouce Coupe. Prince Rupert Court House, Prince riupert Revelstoke Government Office, Revelstoke aossland-Trail Court House, aossland Saanich Municipal Hall, Royal Oak Salmon Arm Court House, Salmon Arm City Similkameen Government Office, Penticton Skeena Court House, Smithers South Okanagan Government Office, Kelowna Vancouver-Burrard ) Vancouver Centre ) - Court House, Vancouver. Vancouver East Vancouver-Point Grey) Victoria City Court House, Victoria Yale Court House, Merritt AND THAT a Proclamation to that end be issued. DATED this day of August, A.D. 1956• PROVINCIAL SECRETARY. APPROVED this day of August, A.L. 1956. PRE6IOING MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. No. 1. VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE Legislative Assembly of British Columbia Thursday, February 7th, 1957. THREE O'CLOCK P.M. This being the first day of the first meeting of the Twenty-fifth Parliament or Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia for the dispatch of business, pursuant to a Proclamation of the Honourable FRANK MACKENZIE Ross, Lieutenant- Governor of the Province, dated the 24th day of October, 1956, the members having been sworn took their scats. His Honour FRANK MACKENZIE Ross, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province, having entered the House, took his scat on the Throne. The Hon. IV. D. Black, Provincial Secretary, said:— Alentbers of the Legislative Assembly: I am commanded by His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor to announce that His Honour does not see tit to declare the causes of his summoning you at this time, and will not do so until you have chosen a Speaker to preside over your Honourable Body. His Honour hopes to be enabled to declare, during the afternoon, his reasons for calling you together. His Honour was then pleased to retire. The Hon. W. A. C. Bennett, Premier, addressing himself to the Clerk, moved, seconded by Mr. Strachan, Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, that Thomas Janes Irwin, Esquire, first member for Delta Electoral District, do take the Speaker's chair and preside over the meetings of this Assembly. and it was so Resolved. E. K. DeBeck, Esquire, the Clerk of the House, having declared Mr. Thomas James Irwin duly elected, he was then taken out of his place by the mover and seconder, and conducted to the chair, where, standing on the upper step, he expressed his grateful thanks to the House for the great honour they had been pleased to confer upon him by choosing him to be their Speaker. And thereupon he sat down in the chair. and the mace was laid upon the table. Prayers by the Most Reverend II. E. Sexton. DD., Archbishop of British Columbia. c Lir./ -r% 12 . "" FI KY 7111 His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor again entered the House, and taking his scat on the Throne, the Speaker-elect (standing on His Honour's right) then spoke to the following effect:— MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HoNouR: The House of Assembly have elected me as their Speaker, though I am but little able to fulfil the important duties thus assigned to me. lf, in the performance of those duties, I should at any time fall into error, I pray that the fault may he imputed to me. and not to the Assembly, whose servant I am, and who, through me, the better to enable them to discharge their duty to their Queen and country, humbly claim all their undoubted rights and privileges, especially that they may have freedom of speech in their debates, access to Your Honour's person at all seasonable times, and that their proceedings may receive from Your Honour the most favourable interpretation. The Hon. W. D. Black then said:— MR. SPEAKER: I am commanded by His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor to declare to you that he freely confides in the duty and attachment of the House of Assembly to Her Majesty's person and Government, and not doubting that their respective proceedings will be conducted with wisdom, temper, and prudence. he grants, and upon all occasions will recognize and allow, their constitutional privileges. I am commanded also to assure you that the Assembly shall have ready access to His Honour upon all seasonable occasions, and their proceedings, as well as your words and actions, will constantly receive from him the most favourable construction. His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor was then pleased to open the Session by the 0 following gracious Speech:— Mr. Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly: I welcome you to the First Session of the Twenty-fifth Parliament of British Columbia. Last month the people of the Province suffered a great loss in the passing of a valued counsellor, Mr. Ernest Edward Winch, who had represented the constituency of Burnaby since 1933. Mr. Winch will not only be mourned by his constituents, but by all those who knew his unselfish and untiring devotion to public affairs. During the past year British Columbia has been favoured with a visit from Field Marshal the Right Honourable Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. Also during the year, we have enjoyed the opportunity of welcoming Right Honourable S. G. Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand, and the Right Honourable A. R. W. Low, Minister of State, Board of Trade, United Kingdom. As a result of a great increase in the population of British Columbia, a redistribution of scats for this Legislature was approved at a previous session. The total membership in the House is fifty-two members. Since last you met, two new Ministers have been appointed—the Honourable Leslie Raymond Peterson, Minister of Education, and the Honourable Earle Cathers Westwood, Minister of Trade and Industry. Because of the growing importance of the tourist industry and the tremendom industrial expansion in British Columbia, my Government deems it advisable to set up two new departments—the Department of Recreation and Conservation and the other to be known as the Department of Industrial Development, Trade and Commerce, thus eliminating the present Department of Trade and Industry. FEBRUARY Tin. 3 To this end you will be asked to approve an amendment to the " Constitution Act.- As it is my Government's policy to encourage exploration and the development of our natural resources, the Department of Mines is being reorganized. My Government is exploring every possible means of encouraging the development of a basic iron- and steel-smelting industry within British Columbia. Certain measures will be laid before you that are designed to hasten this development. In relation to our rapidly expanding oil and natural-gas development in British Columbia, you will he asked to give consideration to certain steps that will assure the Province not only of continued development in this field, but also of wise and practical conservation of this resource. It is with gratification that I note that my Government has removed the tolls on passengers crossing on bridges operated by the British Columbia Toll highways and Bridges Authority. The Agassiz-Rosedale Bridge was opened last year. This coming summer it is planned to open the Middle Arm Bridge and the Oak Street Bridge system in the Vancouver area. The bridge at Nelson will likewise be opened. Favourable progress is being made on the Deas Island Tunnel, the Second Narrows Bridge, and the Okanagan Lake Bridge. My Government has signed with the Federal Government an extension of the Trans-Canada Highway Agreement, which calls for a new route through Rogers Pass in the Selkirk Range and a new route crossing the Fraser River east of the Pattullo Bridge.