2 pages 25C gp 4 Cool weather style PAGE 13 Youths receive honors PAGE 39 NEWS phato Terry Peters y QUEEN ELIZABETH and Prince Philip say farewell to British Columbia as the Royal couple board the plane to Regina Friday. The Queen was in @ Vancouver last week for the Commonwealth conference. For more Photos of the Queen, see page 3. WEST VANCOUVER District Ald. David FinJay has re- quested the Inspector of Municipalities conduct a conflict- of-interest review of his actions as a council member and his work for a development company. He made the request to clear any doubts over the propriety of his work as a lawyer for International Land Corp. (ILC), the company proposing a luxury condominium development at Fisherman’s Cove. Finlay had made a surprise an- nouncement at a Sept. 28 public hearing into ILC’s proposed West Vancouver development that he would withdraw from any further discussion or voting on the cor- poration’s rezoning application at Fisherman’s Cove because he had By TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter been doing conveyancing work for the corporation but on unrelated matters. The issue of Finlay's possible conflict of interest had been raised by a private citizen at the hearing. In an Oct. 7 letter to West Van- couver deputy municipal manager Doug Allan, Finlay states that he began conveyancing work for ILC involving company projects on land outside West Vancouver in August 1986 with his old law firm Croft & Finlay. The West Vancouver alderman subsequently set up his own prac- tice Jan. 1, 1987, and resumed his conveyancing work for ILC. Finlay, who is currendy on a business trip and was unavailable for comment to press time Friday, said in his letter that he has not done any work for ILC in West Vancouver since January and that he believes Croft & Finlay did not do any work for ILC in West Van- couver before January. ILC president Gilbert Bradner stated in an Oct. 5 letter to Aflan that Finlay had done some con- veyancing work for his company over the past 13 months, but ‘‘the work has been of a minor charac- ter and involved only slight contact between the officers of Interna- tional Land Corp. Lid....and Mr. Finlay has not performed any legal work for us in West Vancouver.’’ Because of the concern raised in the Sept. 28 public hearing, Mayor Don Lanskail directed Allan to provide a summary of all ILC pro- jects in which West Vancouver Council has made decisions since Finlay began work for the com- pany. Finlay said he requested the matter be referred to inspector of Municipalities Hector Topham for a ruling that ‘‘will give guidance to all members of council for the future.’’ Mayor Don Lanskail said Thursday council promised at the Sept. 28 public hearing that all details of Finlay’s involvement with ILC and his votes on all the company's West Vancouver developments would be released. “I’m trying to run an open gov- ernment here,’* Lanskail said. He added that Finlay’s request to forward the matter to Topham was an attempt to ‘‘reassure himself, council and the people of West Vancouver’’ that nothing in- appropriate had been done.