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with all the trimmings. (Ellsworth Dickson photo)

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU, TOO, say North Van's Ken and Brenda as they limber up to grect 1981

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By GILL SHAW

fore

Davis wants the govern-
ment to put controls on
foreign real estate deals.
Some realtors say he is
exaggerating the extent of
foreign investment in
residential property and
controls aren't necessary.

Ree said Davis might be

By CHRIS LLOYD

Few men will admit
they do it and not many
women tell anyone it
happens to them. But
though most people
don't want to talk about
it, wife beating is
alarmingly widespread.
And it has been
established that the
North Shore, with {its
high income middle
class image, fs no more
exempt from the
problem than anywhere
else.

Staff at) Emily Murphy
House, the North Vancouver
emergency home which
offers temporary accom-

...but realtors don't agree

North Vancouver MLA Jack Davis is blaming
ign buyers with bottomless bank accounts for
high house prices on the North Shore. But many
real estate agents here don’t understand why he's
so worried and another area MLA, Angus Ree,
seems inclined to agree with them.

overstressing the foreign
buying. “Canada needs a lot
of foreign capital over the
next 10 years,” he said.

But, he added, the
government should take a
look at the situation and

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WOMEN RARELY ADMIT IT
Wife-beating
commonplace
on N.Shore

modation and support to
women fleecing situations of

CONTINUED ON PAGE A4

weather

Possible showers with
a few sunny breaks,
continuing mild.
THURSDAY:
Litde change.

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