A24 - Wednesday, November 25, 1981 - North Shore News TOR ONTO The changeover from imperial to metric measure for food sold in random weights will begin in January 1982 in 21 areas of Canada and extend gradually over the whole country until the process is completed by the end of 1983, Metric Commission Canada an- nounced Tuesday. At a news conference where the transition schedule was released, Commission spokesman Frank Dugal said the changeover would allow retailers at the start of each conversion period to ad- vertise products in both metric and imperial prices, as long as the metric prices SEATTLE - No Canadian g.oup or individual has ‘officially protested the U.S. govertment’s proposal to increase the size of tankers allowed in the Juan de Fuca Strait, according to American authorities. A spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard expressed surprise Monday that despite highly publicized protests in January during supertanker testing, “there hasn't been one’ official written sub- mission from Canadians, groups or otherwise.” There were, however, “volumes and volumes” of objections from American groups and individuals, he said. Washington State senators earlier this year managed to get a clause attached to the U.S. government's proposal, yo waged it until next year. Haida Thermo Glass Takes the chills out of your late night viewing. RIES WILL INCREASE Order now at 1981 prices and make no payments hilliag drafts Caused by - can make yout home , ble Our C onvcrston System can reduce wan dow heat loss by up to san. reduce Condensation and oon . meee oN crease the valac of vour herr THE Ree cat's Call ton a free cstunvate on X fain SYA advuic 980-7511 rH py 407 Mountain Highway, North Vancouver, B.C. were the more prominent. At the end of each period, which ranges by area from two to several months, retailers would be required to have all retail food scales weighing in metric units. Dual advertising, however, would be permitted until the end of 1983. Under the schedule — in Ontario next year — the first stores in Ottawa, Vanier; and Hull, Que., switch to metric . measure between January and the end of July. Metropolitan Toronto will follow suit from March through November. In Victoria the change will take place January through April, requiring at least one more public hearing on the issue before a final decision is made. The deadline for filing for leave to present submissions to the final hearing passed Monday. It has not been decided whether the hearing will allow submissions from objectors who had not filed interventions. Members of Greenpeace environmental groups in Seattle and Vancouver, using inflatable boats, demonstrated in the strait in January when the U.S. Coast Guard conducted tests with the 133,000 DWT §super- tanker B.T. San Diego. In Vancouver, Green- peace Canada director Patrick Moore said Green- peace’s Seattle organization window heat boss miphty uncometort rodiac C HOrse, 1983 and in Van-: couver it will occur May through February 1983. Dugal told reporters the Commission, ‘which has cost taxpayers some $35 million so far since it was first set up 11 years ago, could. make no estimate of the total nationwide cost to retailers in converting to metric. He said some retailers already had modern metric scales and the. number of scales would vary according to store size. “We do not have any definite figure,” he said. “There are too many variables. It is impossible for anyone in Canada to quote a. meaningful figure.” The Commission first tried anker issue slips protest had submitted a written protest. “It saddens me that not one single Canadian politician (opposed the proposal to allow larger tankers in the _ strait),” with natural winner atl 40 states, “ENTREE” Start your department IN CANADA FRUTTA a whipped fruit juice made fruit the Texas Show, already distnbuted in more than Now on the canadian market HERE’S YOUR CHANCE! business with a basic inventory tor as low as $7,500 e f{xclusive strategic locations will y be SELECTED FOR YOU by = our speciahzed agency @ [f you are accepted asa FRUTTA distributor, your inain task will be - to serve your chentele (ona part, or a full time basis ) ®@ No recenmables, all cash sales e@ You can recuperate mentan 6& months or less Unlimited potential revenues Grab this unique business opportunity '! reget out the metric food-scale conversion program in test projects in Kamloops, B.C., Sherbrooke, Que., and Peterborough, Ont. 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