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“What is the most. unpleasant .
job you ever had?’ a

; ‘The food | was, lousy and so was

a pat Knight
“The question for today is, |

North Vancouver .
_ Working - in a. restaurant.

i. ‘figures. Hes said “we s are quite”
pleased with the restraintexer-

TG cised by all of the depart

In the provisional 1 budget

presented to council, Lester .
said that the Library Board —

agree with the iibrary.

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Said that: “reductions te the ~
library. budget. suggested. by in
the manager ‘would enable the

ohjestive of ro 18% imoreass te
be. ‘met.” .

The provisional: budget, i ine
cluding the library budget: will

create a mill rate of 6.65 mills.
Council will study the docu-

ment and meet March 22 with —
staff for an all-day discussion —

before final revisions and
eventual adoption.

In spite of the possible tax |
increase because of the library —

budget, the municipal mana-
ger appeared satisfied with the

PETER WILLIAMSON |

Six North Shore residents
were installed in executive or
directoria! -csitions when the
Real Estate Beard of Greater
Vancouver held its 59th An-

nual General Meeting on.

Wednesday, February 22, at
Hotel Vancouver. ,

Peter M. Williamson, step- |

ped down as president, but
remains on the executive com-
mittee of the Board as past-
president for the coming year.
Peter Williamson is sales
manager of North Vancou-
vers Crest Realty Ltd., and
lives with his wife Dorothy in
their home at 995 Belvedere,
North Vancouver.

Yan G. Dennis of Cumber-
land Mortgage Corp., a North
Shore resident at 3142 Travers
in Weat Vancouver,

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“ments and their responses to -
the further reduction imposed —
‘upon’ them by: our. earlier
review.” :
had requested that their bud-
get be: presented to council —
without change. And: the -
municipal manager does, not -

He ‘excluded ‘the library

budget i in his comment.

Ina statement accompany-—
ing. ‘the’ provisional ‘budget, .

ano

Lesier pointed ou that the

Lester claims that the cur- ‘province's | inflation ‘rate. is.

‘rent atmosphere of restraint eight | per cent but West Van’ s.

should — prohibit _ the board |
from the: large. increase, He

operating, budget, again: with

. the excention of the library, is

feimommetione: Feny oles 2
se Vy Piest

aly 3.2 percent.
“spite of ‘wage. increases of
about 6.5 per cent,
Capital ime
been cut from $2.miilion in .
1977 to a projected figure of ©
$1.5 million for 1978. ‘Another.
reduction of $800,000 came:

when the manager reviewed, |
then cut. budget. requests. b J

various departments.

The. effect of the. possible.
6.65 mill rate on the taxpayer”.
cannot be estimated at present —
because. of changes i in assess-_

| ment process ‘dictated: by the”
| Provincial. government, ° vs

"NELSON CURRIE

Reulty Board names NS Residents

royements i have . Bene F Raéie

” Nancy Nash
North Vancouver -

~ Once ! was'a waitress; it was

New and expanded services

for the community include — |

additional. fire fighting sup-
-port,. senior. citizens. pro-
grams, additions and i increas-
es to parks, additionai person-

nel for ‘parks and. related.

departments along with a new

clerk for the * Police. depart-
ment. oy

They :

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‘Rickard 3 ‘ohnson, 22, Robert
Allan’ Funk, also’ 22, Laurie

if, 21, and Fren-
ees Ane Wright, aise 21.
Charged’ with cultivation
along with one, juvenile are
‘James. Ralph Peterson, 22,
and 17-year ‘old William
Reynolds, “of: the’ basement

- suite - at ‘the’ same Sechelt |

address. mt
-Murray. Kenneth Gotto, 23,
‘of 1511 ‘Philip,-N. Van, was

charged. with | Possession of
LSD. re

IAN DENNIS"

named a. vice-president of the | by those members.’ . o

board, and Nelson N. Currie,

owner-manager of Currie.
Paddon Realty Ltd. in West
Vancouver, will serve a sec-
ond term as treasurer of the.

. Board.

Elected directors include
North Vancouver residents
Maurice Butler, of Mitten. :
Realty Ltd., Dean Lapointe, |
of lapointe & Associates Real-

ty .Ltd. and P.F. Kearney of |

A.E. LePage Western Ltd. a:
long-time resident of West

Vancouver.

The Real Estate Board of
Greater Vancouver is an.as-
sociation 750 member
agents Tocited throughout
the metropolitan area, and the
2,800: sales people employed

It provides Satie; pro-
motional, educational and in-
-formational material to mem-

bers and the public, main-
tains the multiple listing ser-
vice for'use by members and
investigates complaints and
initiates disciplinary .

dures for infractions: of the
Standards of Business Prac: .
tice and Code of Ethics of the .
industry, written. to uphold
the provincial Real Estate’

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