A10 - Sanday, May 9, 1982 - North Shore News reporter by Ellsworth < . Dickson " More Statistics came out this week about how many Canadians are out of work. But Statistics are just numbers. On Friday | talked with people looking for work to find out what the unemployment situation is like at the “street” level. Today’s question is: ‘What is the unemployment situation really like?’’ Joe McCamley North Vancouver I've only been in Canada one year, but the Situation is worse here than in Britain. The problem is keeping your job once you have found it. There are so many businesses closing right now. Tim Cartwright North Vancouver It is very bad. That's all there is to it. The job I held for four years ended. Business was just too slow. My job prospects right now are nil, either in town or out of town Anne Becker North Vancouver ]l think the situation is absolutely ghastly 1 have just been told at the Canada Employment Centre there are no yobs Also. there are very few ads in the newspaper Generally speaking. most people T talk to say it tus pretty bleak. I don't know what will happen to me Ron O'Connor North Vancouver Its terrible Phere ate SO many for work people looking T have sin years caApenicnce in welding and |}candt fined a pobo fim gotng bo school to learn a new trade Maybe [ll Nave better luck with that Alea Cannon Vancouver Its You dont get the whole story from quate bad Reox,ernment statisthes ] thiok cithes Province ral cos Pederal governments are daing much to help the situation Em trying to get don t the work in the restaurant trade | didnt know how bad things were uoul | started looking for work No time left to carry FROM PAGE A1 comparatively minor, it would have had two effects. On a municipal level, industries would have been left to make up the tax differences that homeowners would have saved through their resulting marginal reductions. On a provincial level, it would have transferred more of the education bill to Victoria as a result of the provincial schools funding formula. Since North Van City taxpayers received no assessments rollback they would have been paying proportionately more than those in the District for the costs of the school district shared by the two municipalities. Whereas the decision has to be formally made by District council, it is probable Distnct will admit defeat over this year's assessments. Unless it totally jams up the tax bills process, the municipality has run out of time. Neither Mel Palmer, Director of Financial vices who Distnct’s case, nor Mayor Don Bell feel the appeal board's decision was just. But since Distnct has to mail its tax bills out by mid-May and to continue the fight would mean taking it to B.C. Supreme Court, neither the Ser- represented thinks District prolong it any further. should Next year is a completely different matter though. And if the municipal chiefs feel the next assessments unfairly hammer District property owners, they will almost certainly take up the fight again with renewed vigor, applying the lessons they learned from this year’s experience. Their case for a rollback was based on declining real estate values and supported by data showing sales trends. The figures showed about 30 per cent of District houses sold in the final months of last year had fetched prices lower than their assessed values for taxation purposes. But the assessment authority managed to convince the appeal board that a significant number of those cases were misleading as they were not bona fide sales but merely title changes occurmng as a result of divorce settlements and other deals. Disallowing the reduction, the appeal board declared the decision by the court of revision, was not supported by proper evidence and did not result in true actual values as defined in the Assessment Act. Assessor Harry Jones comments he is satisfied that the decision returns on assessments fight District's residential assessments to their accurate levels as of the close of last year. He acknowledges that some of them may appear a lide Mgh now because of the continued decline in real estate prices but says that if this trend is maintained it will be reflected in next year's assessments. Palmer said the defeat has been a lesson to him in presenting District's case to the appeal board. He says it has shown him the board ignores market price and does not consider ‘t im- portant in reaching decisions. THE COST He does not attempt to price the appeal on the basis of the hundreds of hours spent on it by his department and other consultants but agrees it must total many thousands of dollars. The cost of this has been paid by matters which would otherwise have been dealt with during that time. Assessor Jones says he has a ballpark figure in mind as to what the assessment authority's appeal cost taxpapers but that he is not prepared to reveal it for publication. Whatever the price, Mayor Bell comments: “I think it was worth it. If we had time I would like to Jewett wants freedom of information y; a f) yy f ; * Pauline Jewett NDP cxternal affairs crite Pauline Jewett was guest of honor at the North Van couver Caprlano May ASSOC LALIOn Ss Day social Jewett who consistently speaks outoin the House of OMMons against the cexcalating arms race was introduced to the guests by Olpa Kempe newly nominated as the loo al riding's proving tal can didate In support of a nuclear arms freeze Jewett pomted to the urgent necd for oa freedom of information act She claamed the putolic and ther clected tepresentatives denied mnformalion On agreements being negotiated often in contravention oof Canadas pranks tes Jeweth cated as the most recent example the agreement reached with the LS allowing testing of the Cruise Massie on Canadian soul despite Eaternal Affairs Mark Mie Crutgan s denial ol Minister cachicn such dealings to the Standing Committee on External Affairs and National Defence. of which Ms Jewettis a member She reported that the highly successful peace march in Vancouver, has --------COUPON------- Offer Expttos May 15 ' Westview Bakery & Konditorei § Westview Shopping Centre, N_V. 1 8’’ After Eight Cake : With real whipping cream only r Reg $12 50 ry SAVE $1.50 a Onty *11° ' With this Coupon loz : i 987-6937 , made an impression in Ottawa and mail on the subject) of disarmament is extremely heavy. Her advice to Canadians was to keep up the pressure, promising she would continue to so on their behalf Qes aco ce OP GD @® ao GF Gb GF GP GD a 6 > &® ae aw GR a aw ow HARRISON GALLERIES Presents an Exhibition of recent paintings by George Bates G67 Howe St Thursday May 2/ S 40g mM 6449 00114 oF Ht By invitation onty Other Gallery | ocations /O2 2 Park Moyal Uoperl evel 88 9. Cararrville Sot Vian ouver ta ¢ 16. to WH Og Mm wud! Autumn Light South Mas. West Vane ouven iv ee a Per, hae 217 Pye cyavy pursue it further. We made a good try. It was not merely a show try. It was an honest effort and I think we made a good effort.” Bell also thinks it will serve to put the assessment authonty on notice that District will not hesitate to challenge it next year and hold it accountable for its decisions. MATTHEW POLLARD, aged 16, a Grade XI pupil at SMU, is one of three students from B.C. and fifteen from across Can- ada, to win an all-ex- penses paid four week trip to Germany organiz- ed by the Federal Repub- lic of Germany. The award was made on the basis of a tough written examination open only to those having no German family background. (Fif- ty-two B.C. students competed.) This is the third successive year in which one of Mrs. Hedda Thatcher's SMU _ pupztis has placed first or second in BC Matthew Pollard, an all rounder, 1s the son of Mr and Mrs Christopher Pollard of Oak Bay. Victoria. For information about SMI), call 592-2411, or write John Schaffter. M A.. Headmaster, St Michaels University School, 3400 Richmond Rd., Victoria, B.C. 20°'x24'° oll