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Survey shows shoppers spending less

IF YOU'VE decided, after all, to splurge a Little
on your gifts for others this Christmas, be warned:
the majority of your friends and relatives don't

plan to splurge on YOU!

That's the conclusion to be
drawn from a North Shore
News survcy on Christmas
shopping intentions which
indicates that three out of
four North Shores residents
will be cutting back on the
value of the presents they
buy this year.

The telephone
conducted last

survey.
Monday.

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asked a geographically
balanced sample of 418
houscholds from Deep Cove
to Horseshoe Bay “Are you
spending more, tess or about
the same on Christmas
presents this ycar as you did
last year?”

Only 10 per cent of the
respondents said they in
tended to spend more this

year, while 44 per cent said
they definitely planned to
spend less.

Another 33 per cent said
they would spend about the
same as last year. In these
cases, however. the inflation
factor would obviously
reduce by around 12° per
cent the value of the
presents they could have
bought with the same
oumbcr of dollars as in 1980

Overall, therefore, a total
of 77 per cent of the

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Collection
charge
inequities
show up
in W.Van
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A CONFUSING can of
worms has sprung open
in West Vancouver in
connection with

charges for garbage
collection since the
service was taken over
December 1 by a
private contractor.

Ever since the new
collection system by Haul-
Away of Surrey was in-
Stituted three weeks ago
there have been loud and
insistent protests from strata
apartment owners who say
they are paying two or three
times as much for garbage
collection as they did under
the former municipally
operated system.

As a result, council voted
last week to adopt a policy
whereby strata tithe owners
would be restored to
“relatively the same
position” regarding charges
as they were in when the

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