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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

Schreck now trails

Davis in Seymour

SOCIAL CREDIT would likely have won in all

three North

Shore ridings

if the provincial

election had been held last Thursday — a marked
turn-around from the situation 10 days earlier
when the NDP appeared to have a reasonable
possibility of capturing one of the seats.

This was the finding of a
North Shore News poll
conducted April 28.

Among decided voters it
showed an increased Socred
lead in the dominant_West
Vancouver portion of the
West Van-Howe Sound
riding and a reversal of the
previous position in North
Vancouver-Seymour — with
Socred incumbent Jack
Davis overtaking and
outstrippng New Democrat
David Schreck by eight
percentage points.

Meanwhile, in North
Vancouver-Capilano the
poll indicated that Socred
incumbent Angus Rec.
though still maintaining a
comfortable lead, had lost

NDP’s Olga Kempo com-
pared to the earlier survey.

In all three ridings the
minor parties have also
began to make modest
inroads, according to last
Thursday's poll.

This was especially the
case in West Van, where 12
per cent of the decided
voters opted for the Liberals
(six per cent), the Con-
servatives (four per cent)
and “others” (two per cent).
The Socreds gained seven
percentage points over their
earlier showing — while
NDP support dropped by a
surprising 16 percentage
points as against 10 days
earlier.

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NEWS photo Terry Peters

ELECTION LINEUP of North Shore candidates faces Carson Graham students for all-candidates meeting.
Pictured among the panel representing all parties standing in the North Shore ridings of North Vancouver-
Seymour, North Van-Capilano and West Vancouver-Howe Sound are (foreground to right) Ed White (Western

It should be noted,

significant ground to the CONTINUED ON PAGE Al6

‘Re-elect us |
first’-Bennett
tells school
trustees

By CHRIS LLOYD

SCHOOL BOARDS in
North and West
Vancouver, who have
to adopt thelr budgets
and pass their mill rates
by May 17, are being
denied the necessary
documentation from
the education ministry
until after the clection.
At least two North Van

couver trustecs have vorcd
suspicions that letters sent

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by Premicr Bennett imply
that funding ts dependent on
the re-election of the Social
Credit government

Macklin Report:
Vander Zalm’s
parting shot

PAGE A3

Bennett has wntten to the
board informing them = the
ume limits for sending final

budget information to them
from the ministry will be
extended to May 7 a

Saturday two days after the
clection

Even West Van school
board Chairman Norm

Alban, while showing what
he calls) “statesman like
restraint,” comments to the
News on the timing

“May 7 may have some
significance to you and to
me, although tn all fairness
May 7 ts not that far off for
(the ministry's usual) im Ing
The casual observer may

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Canada Concept, Seymour); Olga Kempo (NDP, CapfMlano); Claus Spickerman (NDP, West Van); David Schreck
(NDP, Seymour); Angus Ree (Socred, Capilano) and Jack Davis (Socred, Seymour).

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