"..._The canoes you sent up last fall arrived safely. Everything was in order with the exception of one or two destitute items in the displacement._" * * * * * "_I am very thankful for the increase of salary accorded to me by the Commissioner. Now that I have my new eyes_ (meaning glasses) _I am able to see better, and my new teeth help me to masticate my food better, which aids the "deegestion" and keeps me in better health so that I can do more work now. Now I think I am capable of taking charge of a much larger Post than the one I am at._" * * * * * "_I could not make my cash agree with the books, but it agrees now, because I made an entry 'To cast to cook the account, $60.00.'_" * * * * * "_I am sorry that I caused you so much worry last fall when I wrote you that I was at death's door and asking you to send my successor, as I expected soon to enter the pearly gates._ "_I am sorry to say I recovered soon after and the black suit I asked for to be buried in was not required. I had no mourning envelopes on hand, so I blackened the edges of an official envelope with ink, to advise you befittingly of my approaching demise._" * * * * * "_Hereafter I am to receive my instructions from Fort ----. I am sorry to leave you. We have differed sometimes about the orders issued from time to time, but I have endeavoured to carry out the instructions when I thought they were for the good of the post._" * * * * * "Some Reputation" In looking over an old Hudson's Bay wharf with a view to repairs, the contractor remarked: "Well! the piles are so badly eaten away, I'm hanged if I know what keeps the wharf up." A bystander promptly replied: "Nothing but the Company's reputation is keeping up that wharf, sir." Suggestion Competition--Labrador District In connection with awards made in the 250th Anniversary Suggestion Competition (Fur Trade department) it is to be noted that H.B.C. men in Hudson's Straits and Ungava (Labrador District) were without the opportunity of participating, owing to their extreme isolation in the far north. First word of the competition was conveyed to these men by the Company's supply ship in August, 1920. With the landing of the supplies and preparation of the annual accounts, there was no opportunity for the men to write out their suggestions before the sailing of the supply ship on her homeward voyage. Since that time there has been no communication whatever with these posts. It is regretted that owing to the short time between the receipt of the instructions regarding the competition and the date by which replies were to be in Winnipeg it was impossible for northern Labrador posts to participate. FORT McMURRAY NEWS