Coke fine

A 31-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver man was recently
fined $6,000 in connection with a charge of trafficking

113 g (4 02.) of cocaine.

Trevor Ross Redpath pleaded guilty to the charge
stemming from a Feb. 16 incident near the North

Vancouver City Nbrary.

The street value of the cocaine was estimated at
$4,800 by North Vancouver RCMP drug squad mem-

bers.

Redpath also received two years’ probation.
Judge Doug Moss fined Redpath oa Oct. 11 in North

Vancouver provincial court.

Free passage

B.C, SENIORS can travel free as passengers on B.C.
Ferry Corp. vessels on Remembrance Day this year.
Usually, the seniors’ discount does not apply on
Fridays, weekends and statutory holidays, The B.C.
Ferry Corp. makes an exception on Remembrance Day
in recognition of the contributions seniors have made to

the province.

B.C. Ferries also reminds travellers that traffic will be
heavy at times over the long weekend. Terminal parking
lots will fill up early and there may be sailing waits,
beginning Thursday evening and running through

Sunday, Nov. 13.

Pub decision postponed

From page 3

the survey results. Council was
urged to alter the format of the sur-
vey to give a more balanced
account of the application.

Council then decided against
including any extra information in
the survey and voted for it to go
ahead as is. At the time, Coun. John
Braithwaite stated that he felt the
residents of the area would turn
down the proposal anyway.

In his conclusion, Vavaris asked
council to delay its decision for one
week in order to appear before

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decided to not only hold off on a
decision, but also to have an inde-
pendent auditor investigate the
manner in which the survey was
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1943, H force. woich included
Holmes’ unit. consisted of 3,270
British, Dutch, American and
Australian PoWs, Over the uinc
month course Of the Burma/Sum
nulway construction, 880 lost their
lives.

When Holmes thinks back on
his experience, he marvels at his
luck in surviving am ordeal that
killed thousands. “TP was extremely
lucky in that E Rept fit for most of
the time.” he mused. “UH you got
sick, you never got well.

“Ethink many peaple wanted to
live. But one or (women PF knew of
walked into the river at night
because they could not stand the
stress any more.”

When Holmes recalls the veirs
between 1941 and 1946, his over-
whelming sense is that he and his
comrades were Jet down by their
government.“We were thrown into
a battle for which we weren't pre-
pared, We were sent to this *bas-
tion’ of Singapore and it eas really
like a paper tiger. a enstle an the air.

“For allof us, the war was a
waste of the best years of our
lives.”

After the railway was complet-
ed, Holmes’ group — whit was left

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of it returned lo Singapore,
Holmes himself worked a bit on
Changi airport anti] (945, when he
and his coharts were transported to
Changi jail. That's where they were
living when the US. dropped the
atomic bomb on Tirashimia.

Holmes acknowledges that the
results of the bombing were horres-
dous. But he also knows that enemy
soldiers had been instructed to kill
all PoWs if the ULS. ever landed in
Japan,

“Ulonuitely he said. “Cire.
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