$23M TRUCK DEAL
Entrepreneur

Dear Editor:

This has reference to your edition of Oct. 22,
regarding the recent $23 million sale of trucks to
South East Asia by Pacific Truck & Trailer Ltd. The
management and. staff are to be congratulated for
securing this contract.

It may be of interest to your readers 1o know that
this custom truck manufacturing business was started
40 years ago by Mr. J. ‘‘Mac’’ Billingsley, as principal
owner and president. Pacific Truck has always built
custom, quality trucks, primarily of the “off high-
way’’ size for the B.C. logging industry.

Over 20 years ago, when the local industry was
stagnant, Mac Billingsley started to roam the markets
of New Zealand, Australia and South East Asia, in
search of new business.

Girl Guides

congratulated

By visiting these countries, year after year, produc-
ing a quality product and the necessary service to
support the equipment, Pacific Truck sold trucks and
earned export sales for Canada in these off-shore
markets.

This recent sale is no doubt the result of the fine ef-
fort of Pacific Truck’s present management but it is
also the product of the work and reputation of Mac
Billingsley.

B.C. needs more entrepreneurs like him who are
prepared to compete in the world markets, instead of
sitting in Canada and asking for government hand-
outs.

F.A. Grobb
North Vancouver

want 100-metre buffer

Dear Editor:

In response to the article Girl
Guides continue NVD eagle nest
fight in the News, Oct. 25, we are
not. recommending a minimum
buffer of 40 metres around the
eagles’ nesting site.

This was a figure given to coun-

cil from the B.C. Ministry of En-
vironment, When speaking to the
ministry, | was told that they had
grave concerns about whether this
would be an adequate amount of
space to ensure the eagles returning
and successfully using their nest.
Because of this, we recommend-

ed that council support instead, a
minimum buffer of 100 metres,
with no development or activities
whatsoever, as is recommended by
several provinces in Canada with
protective policies alrvady in place.
Mary Huntington .

Guider-In-Charge 2nd Seymour Co.

Seymour
school
needed

OPEN LETTER TO PREMIER
VANDER ZALM

You may not have heard, but
the people of the Indian River area
in North Vancouver-Seymour are
in desperate need of a new school. °
There has been a considerable in-
flux of people, as part of the
orderly development of Seymour
in line with North Vancouver
District’s community plans.

The houses are there, the roads
are in, the children are ready and
land has been set aside for the
school. Your Ministry of Educa-
tion, however, has failed to ap-
prove this school apparently for
lack of funds. In the meantime, all
the children are crowded into other
schools with a detrimental effect
on their education.

Now, I happened to read, Bill,
that you have just found tax-
payers’ money to bail out the B.C.
Lions Football Club. It’s some-
what puzzling to me that an avow-
ed- free enterpriser would take
money from the pockets of the or-
dinary (taxpayers to give to a
private free enterprise. I don’t
remember your party doing this
for the Whitecaps (to use an ex-
ample).

Be that as it may, I] sincerely
suggest that you make up your
mind whether you are a free enter-
priser or an incorrigible hypocrite.
If, as you claim, you are for free
enterprise, then I suggest you take
that money and use it for the pur-
poses for which it was -collected
from the taxpayers and that cer-
tainly includes needed schools such
as the one in Indian River.

Ernie Crist, alderman
District of North Vancouver

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