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Rory Pinder, 17, of North Vancouver received two
stitches to his abdomen at Lions Gate Hospital on Easter:
Sunday following.a fight with a 20-year-old male arising
from a dispute over an old girl friend. Police said Pinder
also received a broken left knuckle during the brawl in
the 200-block West 3rd Street about 3'a.m. Sunday. The
“weapon allegedly used was a kitchen knife. A companion

- Jater took Pinder to LGH for -treatment. The matter
- remains under investigation. |

- "Dog-snatching’ charge likely —

Frederick James Harris, of 1611 Fell Ayenue, faces
possible charges under District by-law for unlawfully
taking a dog from the North Vancouver animal pound.

‘RCMP are investigating following a complaint filed by
the SPCA |

Child dies in rock slide

An 8-year-old Vancouver boy, who was scaling a
150-foot cliff face Fridny In the Nita Lake area north of
Squamish, was fatally Injured In a rock slide. Squamish
RCMP sald the youth, identified as Alexander Frederick
James Bradshaw, was killed instantly after he was
pinned under a boulder. The victim and three

expedition when the

companions were on a climbing
incident occurred, Police sald.

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That’s the
made by Capilano MLA
Gordon Gibson, who says
that. almost all of the 10
MLAs named by the gov-
ernment to conduct the
inquiry ‘‘have close and
enduring connection with the

“apricultural interests of the

province.”’ |

As a_ result, declared
Gibson in a statement issued
last week, the committee’s
findings will lack credibility,
because it should include
equally strong representa-
tion of the consumer's
interest.

‘‘For too long now the
proverbial Nero has been
fiddling around trying to
decide which group is the

culprit while our pocket
books have been getting
burnt,’’ he said. ‘'The

farmers blame the distrib-
ators, the retailers blame the
marketing boards, the super-
market chains blame the

wapes being paid to the
checkout staff.

‘What was needed was a
close-up, behind-the-scenes
whole indust

accusation

_ The inquiry into food prices recently.set up by.
— the provincial government is rigged in favor of the |
farmers and is likely to do little or nothing for the
person bearing the brunt of high food costs—the
customer at the supermarket checkout.

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from the farmer to the
consumer’s shopping cart. ”

The committee of inquiry
consists of seven Socred and
three NDP members. The
government has refused to
‘expand the group to 12
members, so that Gibson,
leader, and
Conservative. leader Scott.
Wallace could be included.
Each is the sole representa-
tive. of his party in the
present legislature. |

“Each of us,’’ Gibson

maintains, “represents a
philosophy that is very
distinct from the Social

Credit and the NDP. In the
last election there were
145,000 voters who suppor-
ted the non-Socred, non-NDP
alternatives and if public
opinion polls mean anything,
there are many more today.’’.

That alternate philosophy,
said the Liberal leader, has
some very important impli-
cations for questions such as
the use of agricultural land,
the structure of marketing
boards, the concentration of
corporate power in the food
industry and the rights of
consumers generally.

_ "Those philosphies have a
right to be heard in connec-

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