24 - Sunday. December 2, 1990 - North Snore News

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Ltd’s Rockums Cancar Disasion
Of Surres. will receive a SO00 00K)
loan from Victoria and Ouawit.

Federal boresty: Minister Frank
Oberle and B.C. International
Business and -mmigration
Minister Elwood Veitch, chairman
of the B.C. Frade Development
Corporation, said the funds will
help support a $4.05 millian,
three-year market penetratian and
development phase of what is en-
visioned to be a long-term
business activity servicinize the
Soviet Union's forest products in-
dustry.

The Soviet Union controls the
largest forest reserves in the world
and operates 30,000 sawmills. It is
interested in improving industry-
wide efficiency and Umber recov-

; ~ —~— NEWS photo Mike Waketield
TWO BC Gas employees work on shutting down a area, 900-block West 16th Street in North Van-| “5,051. and Veitch said. the
natural gas leak caused recently when a construc- couver, was closed for about an hour while the line | soviet. have expressed a. prefer.
tion worker unintentionally ruptured the line. The was repaired. See Sawmill 26

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