Thieves dash

potters’ hopes

JUST AS North Vancouver
potters George Matheson
and Nick Meissner were
feeling good about having
gol enough stock together to
go into business, luck turned
against them.

They had spent the past
few months making por-
celain teaware in the old
construction trailer behind
Meissner’s home at 1059
McNaughton Crescent in
North Vancouver

By the end of
they had more
preces oof hand painted
porcelain which they had
been busy turning out since
Christmas

The

last week
than 100

pleces represented
their opportunity to break
oul of the ramshackle

surroundings they had used
to start off their venture, by
providing the Start-up
capital for them to become
commercial potters

Their facilites were so
cramped that the potters had
packed up the 20 teapots, 60
mugs. 10 tea canmisters and

vanous other

pieces into
boxes and lett them in a
panel truck next to” the
trailer, ready to deliver to
stores which had orders.

Sometime Friday or
Saturday ecvening the
boxloads of porcelain were
stolen from the truck.
on Sunday

tt was
that the potters
discovered their stock had
pone — and with it their
hopes of going into busimess

“We have been working

under the most adverse
condtiuons.” said Matheson.
“We were just at the point

where we could start to see
some oreturn and oa tur-
naround in our situation.”

Matheson can’t un
derstand why the tmef took
the porcelain. while leaving
all the tools that were in the
trailer

He wonders how the tmef
would consider being able to
dispose of the porcelain
since each piece is) so
disunctive, hand painted and
bearing the potters’ iden-
tifying mark

Quayside
Park gets
go-ahead

CONSTRUCTION of a
waterfront park at Lonsdale
Quay was given the go-ahead
by North Vancouver City
council Monday mht

The work wall involve con-
touring and laying sod so the
park can be in use by this
summer

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- Wednesday, March 17, 1982 - North Shore News

ONE OF THE FEW
pleces of pottery
remaining after last
weekend's theft is held
by George Matheson,
who hand painted each
of the porcelain items
stolea from the back of

the panel truck.
(Ellsworth Dickson
photo)

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accident m Staniey Park in tne early
momunyg of August 23 1980 in wnichn
a motorcyChst was wmyured @#nd who
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