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Your tax dollar may be broken down as follows in the Dunbarton area: Education - 52.8 % County - 12.9 % Roads - 10.68 % Police - 10.12 % General & Government - 5.2 % Garbage - 3.68 % Fire - 2.87 % Welfare - 1.75 % In 1946 the Province set up a Department of PLANNING, which permitted local Municipalities to organize their own Planning Boards, and permitted them to exercise certain authority over the use of land. In 1948 this Township appointed menbers to such a Board, whose duties are to plan the future development of the Township. It has been agreed that with costs to the taxpayer of $500.00 per child for secondary schooling, and $l00.00 to $150.00 per pupil for primary education, we would not permit large scale "modest"homes to be built until sufficient industry be secured to offset the service costs. Consequently the Board has not approved any new sub-divisions for the past five years where there is not municipal water, but do permit the old sub-divisions to be built up under certain restrictions. The minumum sized lot permitted with municipal water is 7,500 square feet with a 60 foot frontage and where there is no municipal water, the lots are required to be 15,000 square feet with 75 foot frontages with reservations. Should an owner wish to divide his property and sell less than 10 acres, he must first get a "consent" from the Board. The Board meet monthly or more, to plan restrictive By-laws, zoning, etc. However, all zoning By-laws and sub-division plans are subject to Metro Toronto approval. Ajax, and Pickering Hospital is one of the adjuncts of the new growing population Facsimile of invitation reads: The Board of Directors of The Ajax and Pickering General Hospital Ajax, Ontario request the honour of your presence at The Official Opening on Tuesday, February the twenty-third nineteen hundred and fifty-four Third and Harwood Avenues two-thirty o'clock The Clerk of the Municipality is a Deputy Registrar of all births and deaths which occur in the Township and issues marriage licenses. All births occuring in the Township must be reported to him on proper forms within thirty days, while death certificates must be presented to the Clerk before he may issue a burial certificate.