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Vital North Shore
statistics in the provincial
general election called by
‘Bennett last
Tuesday are as follows:

A. Three provincial
ridings:'. North -.Vancouver-
Seymour, North Vancouver-
Capilano, .. West. Vancouver-
Howe Sound. -

2. Results” ‘at the i975.

, provincial ‘general election -
" were:

North Van-Scymour --
Davis. (Socred) 14,359,

_Gabeimann (NDP) 9,583,

Kanngiesser (Lib) 2,091,
Calder. (Cons) 914.

North Van-Capilano -

* Gibson (Lib) 8,762, Andrews

(Socred) 8, 472, Copes (NDP)

«2,346.

West Van-Howe‘ Sound -
Williams (Socred) 14,371,

_ Miller (NDP) 3,243, Maracle

(Lib) 2,764, Jameson (Cons)
871, Kellner (League for

_ Socialist Action) 40.

3. Province-wide
standings in the 55-seat
Legislature at its dissolution

Local Tory candidates
have been fast off the mark
with the opening of cam-
paign offices for teh May 22
federal election. °

Campaign headquarters
for Ron Huntington,
Progressive Conservative
MP for Capilano who is
seeking re-election, were
opened yesterday at 659
Clyde Avenue, West

election on May. 10.

Nominated Candidates to
date in North Van-

- party |

“ast week were: : Socreds 34, “
_NDP_ 18, Conservatives. A, -

vacant seats 2.

Premier Bennett had
earlier called byelections in
the two vacant seats of North
Van-Seymour and North
Van-Capilano for May 31.
These byelections are now
cancelled by the. general

are Jack: Davis (Socred), the
former “incumbent, Joy
Langan (NDP) and Joy
Gilmore (Cons). -

Jev Tothill, the recently -

chosen B.C. Liberal leader,
has been indicated as the
Liberal candidate, although
not yet nominated.

North Van-Capilano will
be the scene of a four-way
fight tomorrow (Monday,
April 9) for the Socred
nomination between Reg
Cooke, Gus Kroll, Angus
Ree and Keith Winter.

Denis Gandreau is secking
the Tory nomination and

Tories open office

Vancouver
1301).. -

(phone

Chuck Cook, Progressive
Conservative candidate .in
North Vancouver-Burnaby
has two campaign offices in
operation — at 353 Lynn
Avenue, North Vancouver
(phone 986-5381) and at 3795
Williams Street, Burnaby
(phone 294-8401).

Fireworks fizzle
at school board meet

If the 60-70 taxpayers who
attended West Vancouver
School Board's public
“budget meeting” Thursday
night were expecting
fireworks, they went home
disappointed.

There were plenty of
questions from the mostly
middle-aged audience --
particularly on the theme of
ever-increasing education
costs at a time of declining
school enrolment in the
“aging” West Van com-
munity. But for the most part
the questions were smoothly
ficlded by the four trustees
present (Carl Hunter,
Katherine Newman, Mark
Sager and Audrey Sojonky),
backed up by schools
superintendent Ed Cartin
and board = secretary-
treasurer John = Casscy.
Trustee Norman Alban was
absent.

The audience listened
attentively to well rehearsed
explanations of the board's
approach to budgeting, and
the question period, though
busy, brought no dramatic
confrontations.

Except, perhaps, for the
gentleman who complained
he was over-taxed because

his four children who had
gone through the West Van
system were illiterate. He
was gently corrected by their
former teacher in the

’ Williams

_ Shore riding? iny

925-

‘ofan NDP candidate.

Incumbent MLA Alien
(Secred), the
present Labor Minister, will
presumably . tun. for re-

election in West Van-Howe -

Sound. No candidates: for
‘opposing parties have so far

emerged.

ts, figures and can-
dines the two North
olved in the
federal ‘electién” — “North
Vancouver-Burnaby ~ and
Capilano — were sum-
marized in the Sunday News
of April 1.

PEI voters.
suffer too

B.C. citizens aren't alone
this month in having two
elections on their hands at
the ‘same time.

“Less than 24 hours after
Prime Minister Pierre
Trudeau called the federal
election for May 22, Prince
Edward Island Premier
Bennett Campbell an-
nounced. a_ provincial
general election for April 23.

Campbell’s Liberals
presently tie with the
Conservatives at 15 seats
each in the P.E.T.
legislature, where the
speaker holds the deciding
vote.

audience who recalled that
one had won a scholarship to
UBC, while another son was
now managing his father's
business.

Provincial and
: campaigns 1 may be provided «-
* pomudk Wantierecn is reported
Sane ‘
nod. * .

§ Go for
more shopping.

For your convenience...
Park Royal Shopping Centre will be open

for evening shopping until 9:00 p.m. on
Wednesday, April 11, due to the Good
Friday holiday falling on Friday, April 13.

Shoppers therefore have two evenings to
April 11 and Thursday, April 12.

rules in each case.

‘Provincial ‘election | ad-.
vertising in the media can

begin: immediately: and

Federal
vertising in the media is not
permitted until April 22 —
one month | before polling’ .
day.

TRE DOMES”

~ he ‘owever,

federal .

election. ad-. -

a . rejuvenated
_ provincial Tory under
Vic Stephens, with its-ap-.
pealing platform of reduced.

taxation and a -list of:

- comparatively strong “|
candidates, may make -
‘substantial inroads into the’
' frée’ enterprise vote hitherto.

> ¢laimed * almost. exclusively op

by the Socreds.

At this early stage the
principal beneficiary of. the
confusion created by. the
dual election’ campaigns
would appear to be the NDP.
If they win or make a strong
showing in the May 10
prowincial poll, their federal
colleagues in C. could well —
~ reap a “rub-off” advantage in’
the national poll 12 days
later. _

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