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provincial
Lieacs. fm nae is

‘Finarice,”

omeowner “grants
ren a spacey trick by

ugh. 4 ays.
paid out Syste fay — fs.

-‘money.— norm
being: held up hecause of.a temporary cash
flow problem. Moreover, he notes, there. is

actually-no legal obligation for the govern-
ment to hand ft over before next March.
Hanging on jo the money, of course,
enables Victoria: © earn record high interest
from: rt-term deposits — interest that the
municipalittes:. ‘themselves thereby lose. At
the - moment “‘ghe ~ three North Shore
és ute still waiting for over five
million doliars.°$5 million invested at 20%
would ‘yield $19,231 every week — which is
hardly peanuts.

City halls need this interest 1 revenue badly
during the summer. and fall months. It helps
counteract the iriterest they: have to: pay. on
borrowings during the following winter and
spring to cover running expenses until the
next July tax daté arrives.

The obvious solution, already proposed by
the Union of .B.C Municipalities, is for
Victoria to permit. the collection of
municipal taxes half-yearly or even quar-
terly. This would greatly ease city hall's cash
flow headaches and save many thousands of
tax dollars new: spent on usurious loan in-
terest payments. Taxpayers themselves
might well prefer graduated billing to the
annual horror that pops through their
mailbox each June.

- That's the way to go, Mr. Curtis — rather
than lining the province's coffers by short-
changing the juntor kids on the block.

Not fo worry

To the ever-growing list of things that can
do you in — from smoking to sunbathing —
they’ve just added two more. A new survey
suggests cancer may be caused by eating

. And the Science Council of B.C. is
probing the harmful effects of electrical

fields on people living or working near power
lines and sub-stations.

One day, no doubt, researchers will get
around to the dangers of WORRYING

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THIS PAPER (S RECYCLABLE

By RICHARD BLACK-
BURN.

President,

N. Shore Tenants Ass'n

Dr. Walter Block, the
developers’ front man,
pleads, “Don't behead the
Messenger” in the August
16, 1981 issue of the North
Shore News (Page A6).

Dr. Block's philosophy
that greed is not something
to be despised is clearly out
of touch with reality.

The speculators’ role as an

“economic messenger”
according to Dr. Block is
not true. The speculator’s
role is to invest the least
amount of money into land
and housing that will be sold
at a later date in the tightest
market conditions to
squeeze out the highest
profit margin possibile. The
speculator is not the
messenger of the problem -
the speculator is the
problem.

As evidence to refute his

claims, we. submit your
‘Inquiring Reporter's
Column’, August 16, 1981

(Page AlO), “What are your
hopes of ever owning a
Home?”

No one interviewed in the
column could see themselves
being able to buy a home in
their community. Would Dr.
Block send them to Spuzzum
because they can't afford the
speculator’s prices?

The builder/ developer
community has emphatically
told the various levels of
government that it cannot

MAY DAY? Hope it
wasn't a portent of things to
come for TRANSPO 86.
Vancouver's controversial
world exposition five years
hence, when U.K Consul
Peter Rogan, U.K.
exhibitions chicf Ted Allan,
Deputy Mayor George Pull,
Provincial Secretary Evan
Wolfe and Exposition
Commissioner Partick Reid
got together recently to
celebrate the announced
participation of Britain in
the big fair (see picture
below). What could be more
appropriate for the occasion
than to be photographed
holding the Union Jack?

Unfortunately, the camera
caught them holding 11
upside down. An upside
down flag ts an international
distress signal

ene

No distress signals flew at
the highly original wedding
of North Vaacouverites lalla
Aanc Shepherd and Danicl
Brace Manro last) month
Phe mites were conducted by
Dr. John McLean on the
Matthu cruising
around Bowen Island with
120 guests aboard from as far
away as Scotland Ihe
honcymoon took the
newlyweds to London tn
time for the royal wedding,
then on to Paris

one

Princess

and does not want to build
“affordable housing.” If Dr.
Biock’s supporters had their
way, people would never be
able to save for and buy a

home of their own.
Dr. ~Block spoke at
Vancouver's recent ob-

servance of the housing
crisis shortage (last spring's
‘Housing Shortage Week’);
there Dr. Block was
questioned by members of
the N.S.T.A. executive. I
asked Dr. Biock, since he
recommended the use of our
available agricultural land
for free market develop-
ment, didn’t he see any
problem for a British
Columbia food supply; Dr.
Block’s answer was that he
saw no problem in being
dependent on another
country for our food sup
plies.

Dr. Block has the un-
mitigated gall to suggest that
British Columbians should
build their houses on our
agricultural fand and rely on
the most targeted state of
our southern neighbour to
supply us with food.

Greg Richmond, First
Vice-President of the
N.S.T.A., asked Dr. Block,
“If two families were en-
deavoring to acquire the
same housing and one of
those families could pay
double, did that mean that
the family who could pay
doubie had more of a ght to
that housing.” The answer
from Dr. Block was simple -
YES.

Further questioning by

Richmond on the morality of
the free market system's
premise that those. who
could afford to pay more had
more ‘of a right to housing
than the rest, was to the
effect that the Fraser In-
stitute did not concern itself
with the morality of the
system, but more with the
financial feasibility of the
system.

sunday brunch

by Noel Wright

GREY POWER: That new
Seniors’ Lottery launched by
former Vancouver mayor
Tom Alsbary has more to it
than the $100,000 jackpot
and tens of thousands in
other prizes. The important
spin-off will be free mem-
bership in OAP and seniors’
groups for every one of
B.C.’s 294,000 seniors. This.
says Tom, will give seniors
“more clout” in talking to
government about jmproved
pensions, better health carc.
senior citizens housing and
battling rent hikes.
out, Victoria and city hall
They're on the march and
there's an awful lot of them

The final open-air rally of
the Charismanuc Christians

| BRITS JOIN Tramspo 86 ... with distress signal. |

Watch.

this evening at Mahon Park,
North Van, kicks off with a
half-hour “Run For Hunger”
in support of missions,
starting at 4:30 p.m. Get ont
those Adidas, says Pastis
Doug Knoll, and warm op

for the 6:30 closing
celebration — which starts
with Rev. Paul Powers

presenting the gospel by
ventnloquism ...

ooe

PRIZE LIST: Shanng in
the half million dollarsworth
of midsummer handouts by
the Canada Council for
assorted cultural projects
were West Van's Donald
Graham ($2,232 for a history
of west coast lighthouses)
and North Van's Nora
Minogue ($2,128 for her

NLIVE AND Weil fe
INCANAD

The N. Sif. A. would. like
to ask Dr. Block publicly:
“Would he sooner see the-
people organized to the
point where they would out-
“Jaw the free market develop-
‘ment of housing or would he
recommend that existing

governments take action
now to provide affordable
housing for
residents?

Canadian

EAINING 18 |

“multi-disciplinary approach
to teaching reading and
writing skills to handicapped
adults”). They were among
the 85 awarded grants from a
field of 349 aplicants across
Canada... Congratulate
Shahis Kanji of Handsworth,
winner of a two-year Duke
of Edinburgh scholarship to
the Lester B. Pearson World
College of the Pacific near
Victoria ... The same again
to Molra Shaughnessy and
Mark Kayfl of North Van
who've won $1,000 Nancy
Greene scholarships for B.C.
high school athictes ... North
Shore students also took (wo
of the 10 runner-up prizes in
the GVRD Schools Essay
Contest — Usura Dear of
Handsworth for her study of
cnergy alternatives and
Shona Meyer of Sentine! for
her dissertahon on housing

Meanwhile, last Sunday.
the West Van Lawn Bowling
Club's 1981) men's cham-
pionship was won by Mayor
Derrick Humphreys . Came
Thursday cveoing the final
of the women's cham,
Pionship and who should
fight her way through to take
that tile but “Mrs, Mayor.”
Margaret Humphreys. Kinda

neat when you remember
Dernck and Muatparct biest
met way back oo bow lenge
vee

WRIGHT Of WRONG:
Domt try toe hard to gct
what you deserve It wall
cithe: be fens (han you
expect — or more than you
bargain for.

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