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Another long one
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VICTORIA -- Three more

journing to give MLAs a

NUMBERS DOUBLED

North Shore municipalities
set record for tax sales

NORTH SHORE properties were sold at a record
rate this year as municipalities held their annual tax
sales Friday to collect taxes owed.

A9 - Wednesday, October 5, 1983 - North Shore News

While the other municipali-
ties showed a better success
rate — in North Van City the
list of 36 was pared down to

Palmer.
And in North Van City,
treasurer D.A. Moulding

says the number of sales is
ree 21 in West V th 1 ble 1 ,
pieces of provincial  nine-hour break between All three municipalities By MARK HAMILTON srOpertice listed turned out 7 nue, double last year's
government restraint debates and _ represen- held the auctions under yma be 17 by sale time — it was The public sale held Friday
legislation made it tatives may find legislation which permits still not as great as it has
through the legislature themselves in the same them to sell properties on

Monday as the provincial
government gave indica-
tions it would continue to
hold marathon sessions.

The legislature sat until

Ottawa questions

position as last week.
Then, the government
adjourned debate ‘‘early’’
on Monday and Tuesday
before plunging into all-
night sittings later in the

Cyprus presence

OTTAWA -- External af-
fairs minister Allan
MacEachen has indicated
that Canada may want out

has said the government
has to question *‘how long
a peace—keeping force
should be kept in that

of its 19-year-old peace-  country.’’

keeping role on the Ottawa, he said, will
Mediterranean island of continue to push for a
Cyprus. political end to the dispute

While MacEachen has
pledged to keep the Cana-
dian troops on the island
to separate warring Greek
and Turkish factions, he

BEIRUT -- It’s still called
a cease-fire but isolated
incidents of sniping have
escalated to pitched bat.
tles in Beirut.

To mid-week the latest
ceasefire in Lebanon, the
179th in the past decade,
was holding despite shell.
ing from Druse gunners
and battles between

Lebanese lull
holds - for now

over the island, which is
split between the two
countries.

Canada has about 500
men posted in Cyprus.

troops.

Indications are,
however, that both sides
are uSing the lull in all-
out fighting to shore up
defenses, in anticipation
of battles resuming again

While that is going on,
Lebanese president Amin
Gemayel is attempting to
set up peace at negotia-
tions for later this week.

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which back taxes are owed.
In North Vancouver City
there were 21 properties sold,
in North Vancouver District
38 and in West Vancouver
17. In all cases, spokesmen

higher than they have been.
It is usual for lengthy lists

of properties for sale to be
published in the weeks pre-
ceeding the sales. But it is
also usual for the owners of
the properties to pay the
penalty before the lots go on
the auction block.

perties listed and 38 of them
turned up at the tax sale.

been.

West Vancouver treasurer
L.H. Ormiston says this
year’s Sale in that municipali-
ty had ‘‘one of the highest’’
number of properties that he

than double the 16 that
reached public sale a year ago
according to treasurer E.M.

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doesn’t, however, mean that
the purchasers will auto-
matically gain control of the
properties.

There is a one-year waiting
period, during which anyone
with a legal interest in the

“ss oe has seen in the past 20 years. property can claim owner-
1 a.m. Tuesday before ad- _ week. for the municipal finance In the District of North In North Van District, the ship
departments said, those Van that didn’t happen. . id * “Tes actuall
numbers are substantially There were originally 39 pro- 38 properties sold are more S actually very rare that

anyone gets to own the pro-
perty they have bid on,’’ says
Palmer.

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