A2 - Wednesday, March 17, 1982 - North Shore News

strictly personal

The long metric mile

There are moments that make it all worthwhile.

The other day. | ran into

Bruno Gerussi, who has
recently taken on the
assignment of being a
spokesman for the federal
governments metme con
version program.

Hey. I don't knock the

guy. I take on all sorts of
freelance jobs myself.

Its just that. well, the
metme conversion program
is a perfect: example
tyrannical bureaucracy
inflicung its will on a sup:
posedly free citizenry
without so much as an tif you
please.

You know? Bruno's a
perfectly nice guy otherwise

1 got to be the one to tell
him that Japan had just given
up on its metic program

Ah, it was a joy to watch
the expression on his face

] couldn't help chuckling

As a spokesman for the
metnc team, Bruno un
derstood the implicauons at
once. If Japan isnt going to
Carry on with her metne
program, a good part of the
argument in favor of Canada
converting to metne
out the window

We've been told over and
over again that in order to
Stay up there in the big
leagues (gee. what's metnec
for league?) wed have to
convert, just like our mayor
trading = pariners. of
whom happen

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by Bob Hunter

measomme toa for builders
and waulors, amonp others.
who comtmnmed to use the sun
and shmaka

United States and Japan.
But Japan is throwing in

the towel, or at least the it warsed gest a matter of
oshi-mort cloth rebclhoersmess. Li turned oul
A report out of Tokyo yoo cast make a uaditonal

recently said that Japanese
authorities have quietly
admitted defeat in their 30-
year drive purge
traditional units of
measurement from daily life.

kimono or fix historic
temples without resorting to
the old mecasuremenis.

Tike others fag reason for
converumg to metnc in
Camada_ you'll recall,was the

to

It was !14&S when Japan argeamcni that the
signed the international Agsecmcaum were going to be
metric measurement makamp iis switch any day
agreement, but at wasn't and we woukdal want to be

until 1951 that a strict set of
laws were passed ordenng
everyone to convert

left asme premitive old in-
ches wim the Yanks were

happily hogse-trading in
Since then, the “sun”  sviiame«nres.
(inchl and “shaku™ (foot) Ace"l happcuing
have been banned { presummrc everyone heard
This proved to be a oo tead - ube comments of

bonanza for Japan's highly:
organized pangster element.
Organized criminals moved
into to the void to pronde

US. Ambassador Pau!
Robamsom who told a news
conmferemnoe that Canada will
oe u6atl Ua «OC definite | = diusad

Mini-vandals own up

A VANDALISM | incident
which left a vacant house on
Westridge Avenue damaged
to the tune of $3,500 has
finally cleared up five
weeks after it was reported
to West Vancouver police

lo
the

thar parcets Saturday
own ap 10 causing
damagr

A repomi oa the racident ts
being sca to crown counsel
and dhe probanon officer
and restutmizon ws being paid
to the owners of the housc.
wiech s anoccupred and up
for salir

Four 10-year-olds walked
into the police building with

vantage” of it) sucks
schedule of conversion to
metne by the end of next
year.

lo oa

The ambassador told us,
as plainty as he could, “most
Amencans don't Like metnc
at all.” predicted 1t would be
many years, if ever, before
the U.S. switches. and added

that he thnks metnc ts
“rubbish”.

There goes Japan There
goes the States. So much for
the big partner trade
argument.

On other fronts, | sec that
the federal metme com.

mission has been accused of
hiding the results of a Gallup
poll which supposedly shows
that 53 per cent of Canadians
are opposed to the metnc
system.

And of course the ann
metne movement now has
is first martyr - 48-year-old
Neu Fraser. the Kingston,
Ontano, civil servant who
was fired by the government
for speaking out in public
against the “heavy-handed
way” in which the metnc
system was being imposed
on the Country

109 per year

Finally. there's the news
that not even the students in
BC. who are a capuve
audience if there ever was
one — are catching on to
metnc And if Japan ts an
example. why should they?

So hike I said
Gserussi, Sayonara!

to Bruno

|
Ob it was wonderful. fro
look on his face

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