A20 - Wednesday, May 23,

1984 - North Shore News

Hee B.C. news

Besa

Lions want investigation

LIONS CLUBS

investment decisions.
It was recently revealed
thal the society faces a loss

ot $263,000 on its

invest
ment of $1.2 mithon on
second, third and fourth

throughout
beginning to join calls for
ot the B.C. Lions Society

the province are
an Outside investigation
for Crippled Children’s

mortgages on a number of

Greater Wancouver. area
properties.
Kenneth Wright, a past

president of a Wancouver

FOR NEW LEADER

Challenge now

branch of the Lions Club
and a 35-year member of the
service group, says that an
independent inquiry 1s the
best way to clear the air
about the situation and
restore confidence in the
SOCIELY .

The

financial situation

‘party unity

BOB SKELLY,

a number-three contender in the
race for the B.C. New Democratic

party leadership

has carried his red and black campaign colors to a

first-place finish.

The 41-year-old MIA
from Albermi was elected as
the new leader of the provin-
cal NDP May 20, the third
and final day of the leader-
ship convention held in Van-
couver’s PNE Agrodome.

Amongst the close to 1,100
delegates and the red and
black banners of the NDP,
Skelly went from the political
dark horse to the top spot on
the fifth ballot, edging out
fellow contenders Margaret
Birrell, Graham Lea and
David Stupich, by the third
ballot

Skelly trailed front-runners
David Vickers and Bill King
for the first three ballots but
bounced into second place
behind Vickers on the fourth

By the fourth ballot, with
1,068 votes cast, Skelly had
cornered 349 votes with

Vickers ahead by 34 for oa
total of JRI votes

Although Skelly trad) pick
cdoup votes from Birtell and
Stuproh. af was Bill Kay
forthe whi

labor oqminister

cast the deciding
Skelly waictoey,

ped out of the tac

warte fora
when he drop
after thre
fourth teadlot wath ۤh votes
for the E068 ballots cast
King threw tas
bohind Skelly
porters to do the sarve duriay

Kaingp

SAULp prea

iva eee tis Surge

a hastily called Caucus

said he supported Skelly
because he felt commited to
the Alberm) MLA’s strong
socialist stand.

Delegates were left with a
choice on the fifth ballot bet-
ween David Vickers, former
Liberal, who, many felt,
would take the party to the
right, and Bob Skelly, with
his traditional NDP lean to
the left.

Results of the fifth ballot
said at all. Party faithful
swung their vote behind Skel-
ly, giving him 606 of the
1,058 ballots cast David
Vickers Cook 4§2 votes

To the screaming chants of
Skelly supporters, Skelly,
MLA tor Alberni since 1972,
took up the
from
Barrett

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choice, asking the party to do
the same but added that he
would be a candidate in the
next provincial elecuon.

Bob Skelly has called fora
party mobilization, ‘tin the
legislature, around the pro-

vince and in the constitu-
encies.”’
“When the election rolls

around in 1986 this party 1s
going to be sitting in the seats
of government in the
legislative assembly of
B.C.,”’ he told a wildly cheer-
ing body of delegates.

““We are going to have to
pull together harder than we
have ever pulled in our lives,
we're going to have to put
together policy alternatives

that will bring people our
way.”’

Skelly’s surge to the front
of the leadership race was

one of the few surprises that
the first NDP convention in
14 vears seemed to hold
brom the beginning, as the
delegates cegistered and pro
vinctal leader Barrett
and tederal leader Ed Broad
bent addressed the crowded,
planks
NDP

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how
were added ote the
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marks the second time in as
many months that the
society has faced adverse
publicity.

Larher, the
nounced that the high cost
of providing transportation
to thes physically disabled
was forcing the society to

group) an-

stop offering its
transportanion services

own

Instead, the society said it
would lease its fleet of
specially -equipped buses to
community groups tor $1 a
year and turn Operation over
to those groups

Some groups

have pro-

tested that the Lions

Society's decision merely

passes the cost of running

the transportanon to. the

community level

where the
to raise funds 1s not
as developed as tt is for the
province-wide society.

ability

NEWS photo Eric Eggertson

A TRIUMPHANT Bob Skelly heads for the podium after the announcement of fifth ballot

results made him a winner