40 TOURING QUEBEC AND THE MARITIMES

t0 the clamour of bells and hoarse-voiced horns, when their green lights quiver and their red ones look like a faint blush in the mist, the sheer beauty of the scene grips one.

Driving to Rockwood Park, we saw a large tractof wooded land, with navigable lake, bird sanctuary and bathing. This park is the centre of world and international skating championships. ‘

On the way home, we met a school van, carrying pupils from oneof the consolidated schools, of which New Bruns- wick has several. On inquiry I learned that consolidation ‘ is working out well there. ‘ ,

' Everywhere we looked we saw fragrant lilac bushes in bloom, some as tall as fifteen feet.

We viewed King Square and Queen Square with Mem- orial bronze statues and restful seats. This is the rendez- vous for band concerts. .

The Market Slip at the foot of King Street, is where the Loyalist founders landed in 1783, twenty schooner loads of them. A memorial boulder, Plymouth Rock, marks the site, and. the first log cabins were hewn and erected nearby.

We were also interested in the historic Court House on King Square, 1n pure ancient Grecian architecture, and the old Martello Tower. .

We observed that preparations were under way for a government outlay of $5,000, 000 on St. John’ s new water front.

At the conclusion'of the afternoon sight-seeing drive, we had evening dinner in the Admiral Beatty Hotel, and were honoured by the presence of The Hon. J. B. Baxter, Premier of New Brunswick and Dr. W. W. White, the Mayor of St. John, who were eloquent speakers. The former emphasized the fact that huge quantities of fish, potatoes and lumber were exported from New Brunswick,