Why wear
the Serge?

REASONS why a few North Van
a Mounties joined the Royal
8 Canadian Mounted Police
instead of a municipal police
BH force:

f 1}To get rich. Ha! Ha!
1 2) To live in Alberta for seven years (I'm from
7 Kitsilano).
3) Job security.
4) Opportunity to travel. (I've been doing a

lower Mainland tour for the last 22 years.

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ON the North Shore there are the officers in red serge . North Vancouver Royal Canadian Mounted Police and
the officers in blue (a municipal police force), the West Varcouver Police.

Dick Francis
leads seliers

| Originally from Edmonion).

§ 5) To ride a horse.

a Exchange

rate roster

THE following rates are supplied by Park
Royal’s Thomas Cook Foreign Exchange.
The bracketed figure is the ameunt $500
Canadian will buy.

8 US Dollar = 1.377750 (363)

Australian Dollar = 1.084378 (461}

Hong Kong Dollar = 0.186381 (2683)
French Franc = 0.249460 (2004)
German Mark = 0.840697 (595)
Greek Drachma = 0.005488 (91,108)
Italian Lira = 0.000855 (584,795)
Japanese Yen = 0.01 1488 (43,524)
Mexican Peso = 0.217817 (2298)
Netherlands Guilder = 0.751038 (666)
New Zealand Dollar = 0.999902 (501)
Swiss Franc = 0.963133 (519}

U.K. Pound = 2.225058 (225)

These rates are subject to change.
For more information contact Craig Roberts, Curren
Consultant at Thomas Cook Foreign Exchange, 2069 So

By Park Royal Wesi Vancouver or phone 913-0034

:

CRAIG Roberts (left) heads up the Thomas Cook
Foreign Exchange in ‘Vest Vancouver's Park

Royal South.

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