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“üblication.
T
is
hereby
brought
to
public
notice
|
that
the
sum of Fres.
246.50,interest
on
Former
Controller
of
Customs
and
Estate
Owner
in St.
Croix, Peter
Corne-
lius Bireh
and Wife Rosaline
Antoinette,
born
Cantor’s,
Legacy for the poor
and
needy
of St.
Croix,
will be
on hand
for
distribution
on August Ist,
192,
Applications
for
participation
in
this
distribution,
duly
certified,
should
be
forwarded
to
the
Government
of
the
Virzin
Islands
of
the
United
States
of
America
on
or before
July 20th,
1920.
Despatching
Secretary’s
Office,
St.
Croix
Virgin Islands,
June
17th,
1920.
FRED.
B. COLEY,
Despatching
Secretary.
Publication.
OTICE
is
hereby given
that the
sum
N
of
Fres.
255.724,
income
on
their
Royal Highnesses
Crown Prince Fred-
orik and Crown
Princess
Louise’s Silver
Wedding
Memorial
Fund,
will be
avail-
able
for distribution
on
the
28th
July
1920.
Applications
for
participation
in
this
distribution, duly attested,
should
be for-
warded
to the Government
of the Virgin
Islands
of the United
States
of
America
on
or before
July 20th,
1920.
Despatching
Secretary’s
Office,
Chris-
tiansted.
St.
Croix, June
17th,
1220.
FRED.
B. COLBY.
Despatching
Secretary.
lst
Member
for Christiansted
Country
District
(Stakemann)
in
answering-
the
last speaker
said, —I will explain.
Every
man
has
the right to do what
he chooses
with
his proverty.
The
Food
Commis-
sion
is
to be blamed; there is
a pgragraph
in the
Ordinance
which provides
punish-
ment
for
violations
of
the
law.
Why
don’t
tne rood
Commission
enforee
that
law.
st
Member
for
Frederiksted
Town
(Coulter)
asked
Ist
Member for
Chris-
tiansted Country District
(Stakeman)
to
read
the
paragraph
of
the Food
Com-
mission
law to which he referred.
Ist Member for Christiansted
Country
District
(Stakemann)
read
the
para-
graph.
Ist
Member
for
Frederiksted
Town
[Coulter]
said,
I don’t think that applies
tn the price of sugar
as sold by
the Fac-
tories,
it is for violations of
the law.
It
is not
applicable to the
member’s
state-
ment.
Ist Member for
Christiansted
Country
District [Stakemann]
said, 4th
Member
for Christiansted
Country District
[Ram-
say] has just remarked
thai the Factories
have*put
up their price higher
than
that
ST
CHIVEX
AV LD
which
the Food Cor?lission
decided
on.
Ist
Member
for
¥rederiksted
Town
[Coubter]
answered
the
last
soeaker
and
said,
If
the
Honorable
Member
says
sc
he
is wrong
the Food
Commis
sion
canmot
fix the
price
for sugar
for
the
Faetories,
that
is fixed according
to
Pajagraph 4.
:
th Member for Christiansted
Country
District
(Ramsay)
in
reply ‘to
the last
speakerxsaid,
I said that
the
Food
Com-
mission
after getting the quotations
take
that
as
a
basis,
and
after
adding
the
expeuses,
fix
the
price
of sugar;
if that
isn’t fixing
the price then
I don’t know
what is fixing a
price.
Ist
Member for Frederiksted
Country
District
(Andersen)
remarked:
Mr, Chair-
man.
[
understand
that
some
of
the
factories,
not the one
I have
to do with,
did not want
to sell sugar
in large
quan-
tities whiie the price
was
in the air.
4th Member for Christiansted
Country
District
(Ramsay)
remarked:
Mr. “hair-
man.
1 will recite
an incident
th=t
hap-
pened in one of the
meetings
of the Food
Commission.
It was agreed
upon
to
sell
50 bags
of sugar
to
a
certain
individual,
a
certain
“representative
o:
a
certain
factory
advised
that
individual
not
to
buy,
that
individual
believed
the
repre-
sentative
and
did-not
buy,
sugar
was
oniy
$3Z.00
then
and
now
the
price
is
raised
to $51.00.
2nd
Appointed
Member
(Noll)
re-
marked:
Mr.
Chairman.
I was
Chair-
man
of the
Food Commission
some
few
months.
It
seems
to
me
that
the
ar-
gument
today
is,
about
the
price
su-
gar
is
sold
on
this
island.
1
have
never
bheen
an
advocate
of
the
Food
Commission.
The
prices
of
articles
of
foodstuffs
is
based
on
honest
competi-
tion.
In
the Food
Commission
meeting
the
great
advance
in the prices of
food-
stuffs
wvas
reached;
one
merchant
sat
there and
saw the invoices
of the
others
and
he
knew
how
he
could
undersell
him,
and
the
result
was,
there
was
thrust
upon
this community prices
which
were unbearable
and that condition
is ex-
isting today and will always
exist
on this
island
under
such circumstances.
Why
not
talk
about
other
articlesbesides
su-
gar?
It
is
well
known
that
a
man
with
two
thousand
doliars
can
order
cornmeal
at
a
lower
price
than
a
man
who
orders fifty or
one
hundred
dollars
worth of cornmeal.
That’s
one
funda-
mental
reason
for
the
whole thing.
If
you
are
going
into
a
food
commission
why
not
go
into
a
cloth
commission?
I know
not
of any food
commission
that
will
ever
be
put
in force in
this
island
that
will not be
of conflicting interest.
The milkman
wants
an increase
because
the
cattleman
is making
money
and
the
cormeal
man wants
an
increase
because
the sugar
man
is making money.
I agree
to
abolish
this Food
Commission
and I
will never
vote
for another.
4th
Appointed
Member
[Blackwaood)
remarked:
Mr.
Chairman.,
Our
Food
Commission
originated in
a time
of war,
but
the
aftcimath
seems
to
be
worse
than
in times of
veace.
Under ordinary
conditions I believe
we
can
do without
a
Food
Commission.
1 believe if
Govern-
ment
would
take the matter
into its
own
hands
and
fix prices
and allow
a
reason-
able
margin of
profit
conditinns
would
thereby
be greatly improved
1 certain-
ly think
the repealing
of this
law
wii!
not
work any hardship
on
the
commun:-
ty;
I believe
we
would
get along better
without
it; at
vresent
prices
are
high,
but
there
is
every
hope that prices
will
go down gradually.
4th Member for Christiansted
Country
Distriet
[Ramsay]
ramarked:
Mr. Chair-
man.
What
the last
speaker
has
said
is
true in some
respects,
but
it seems
as
if
he
is
not acquainted
with what
is
going
on
in
the
mercantile
world
Does
the
Honorabie
Member
know
that
we
are
facing a flour famine
and
now is the best
time
to have
a food
commission?
The
Chairman
cloged
Ist
Discussion
and
gave
a recéss
of 50 minutes.
To
be
continued.
The
theatre
was
again
a
very
crowded
house
last night when
the Gilmore
broth-
ers
made
their
second
public
appear-
ailce
and
daisplayeld
acirobatic
skiil
ithat
drew
loud
and
continuous
applauses.
These
youngsters
are
undoubtedly
to
be
highly commended
for their
singular
performance
which,
while
not absolutely
foreign to this
community,
are
neverthe
less
unlooked
for in actors
of such
tender
years.
CORRECTION.
In
yesterday’s
Avis,
first
page,
2rd
ecolumn,
21st
line
from
top
please
read,
“Adanted
May
17,
1820"
inatcad
of
‘“May 28.”’
TELEGRAMS.
ST.
CROIX STATION.
Delaydd
in
Transmission.
l.ondon,
June
4th.—ln
the
race
for
Oaks
Stakes
run today the
results
were
as
follows:
Dharlebela
first, Cinna
se.
cond,
and Roselet,
Third.
London,
June
3rd.—The
Daily
Chron-
icle
publishes
a
special
interview
withe
General
Smuts
at
Capetown,
in
which
he
.reiterates
that
the
war
had
trans-
formed
the Dominions
into sister
states.
““Unfortunately the
old
machinery
still
remains’’,
added
the
General,
‘‘and
it
is astonishing
that
statesmen
have
not
yet
realized
the
anachronism.
{
have
insisted
on
a
constitutional
change
in
the
Empire,
and
I
am
also.
astonished
that others
have
not
been
equally
im-
pressed
with its
inevitabilitcy.
The
Brit-
ish people must
realize
this great
consti-
tional
fact.
There
must
be
compblete
equality
and
freedom
enjoyed
by
the
sister
states,
and
your
constitulional
problem
is
to find
new
formulas
to
fit