Drivers

charged

THE NORTH Vancouver RCMP and motor vehicle in-
spectors issued numerous charges and warnings Wednes-
day as a result of combined commercia! and private
vehicle inspections held at the Main Street on-ramp to
Highway 1 and at the 300-block of East Esplanade in

North Vancouver.

Inspectors charged 45 drivers for various equipment
violations and other infractions. In some cases trucks
were found to have air-brake deficiencies and brakes
contaminated by air and grease.

Inspectors found the spring hanger broken away from
one truck. An axle was not attached to the frame of the

vehicle.

The police issued 89 warnings and 19 inspection

notices.

Four commercial vehicles were removed from the road

for equipment violations.

Similar inspections will be carried out regularly on the

North Shore.

Squamish band denies selling
discount cigs to non-natives

THE SQUAMISH Band is
not = selling discount ciga-
rettes .to..non-natives, ac-
cording to Squamish Band
Chief Philip Joe.

Last month the provincial fi-
nance ministry pulled the sales
permit of a vendor selling dis-
counted cigarettes from a store
near Park Royal South on the
Squamish Band's Capilano
Reserve.

The band’s Capilano and Mis-
sion reserve stores are reportedly
’ financed. by Mohawks from the
Six Nations Reserve in Ontario.

But said Squamish Band Chief
Philip Joe, ‘‘They are private
operations. That is all I know.

“‘The law allows any retailer to
buy and ‘sell. It’s not the
Squamish Indian Band. They are
private entrepreneurs. The only
operation that we've got in terms
of cigarette sales is the one in the
(band) office, and we sell only to
the band membership,”’ Joe add-

Natives -who buy ‘cigarettes for
status-Indians living on reserves
do not pay. the 7% GSi' or the

Plan has raised

From page t
_ Bell said between April and July

is a period of high risk due to the -.

corresponding lifecycle of the
moth. The banning policy will be
subject to annual review.

’ Agriculture Canada, meanwhile,
has yet to secure the necessary
provincial permit to allow for an
aerial spraying program to combat
moths believed to be already living
on the North Shore and in other
Lower Mainland areas.

Individual gypsy moths have
been trapped on the North Shore
each year since 1988.

Aerial spraying programs are
planned in the spring for Tacoma,
Washington and Portland,
Oregon. Bell said seven Asian
gypsy moths were found in
Tacoma last year. ‘‘(In
Tacoma)...they’re looking at
128,000 acres, that’s even bigger

. than ours. Portiand will be spray-
ing 10,000 acres for one moth.”’

Meanwhile opposition to a pro-
posed local aerial spraying of the
insecticide Bacillus thuringiensis
kurstaki (Bt) tc combat the moth
is heating up.

A $5 million aerial assault
covering about 43,000 acres
throughout the North Shore, Bur-
naby and Vancouver is tentativley
set for mid-April. The plan has
rajsed health concerns.

This week North Vancouver
District Council asked North
Shore Health medical health of-
ficer Dr. Brian O’Connor to in-
vestigate the health issues stemm-

$20.48-per-carton provincial con-
sumer tax. The federal govern-
ment collects excise and duty taxes
directly from cigarette manufac-
turers.

A spokesman with the consumer
taxation branch in Victoria links
the local appearance of native dis-
count cigarette stores to a B.C.
Supreme Court decision made last

year.

The Tseshaht band from Port
Alberni successfully challenged a
Provincial system of agreements
limiting the amount of tax-exempt
cigarettes available for reserve
purchase.

In October the province set up a
new system that in effect ‘licenses
reserve cigarette sellers.

The spokesman said that in
most: cases bands are collecting
taxes where applicable.

. But he said, ‘‘There are one or
two difficult areas, and we’re in
contact with those people.”’

Added the spokesman when
asked if the North Shore was a
“difficult”? area, ‘‘I’d rather not
comment on that -- I think you
can See for yourself what’s going
on down there.”’

health concerns

ing from the use of Bt in urban

areas.

Said O’Connor, ‘‘There isn’t
really a great deal of literature on
this substance. I can only say to
you that based on the preliminary
information I have received —
and this is in concert with my col-
leagues who are medical health
officers in Burnaby, Vancouver
and Richmond — we believed that
this was an acceptable way in
dealing with this particular in-
festation that we have.

“At the moment I don’t have
any reason to change my mind,
but I have not seen this other lit-
erature which we will review,’’ he
added.

SPEC (Society Promoting En-
vironmental Conservation)
research director Dermot Foley
said that his group’s research has
shown adverse health effects to
some people exposed to Bt and its
micro-contaminants.

“We are concerned that these
micro-contaminants may be par-
ticularly harmful to immuno-
compromised people, especially
those suffering from AIDS,’ he
said.

But said Bell, ‘“We feel there is
no health risk or problem with the
use of the Bt. There have been
many studies. The product has
been used over 3% million people
in the eastern United States in the
last three years — in aerial spray
programs. We're talking major
cities back east.”

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The situation, she said, had
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suggested that lighting the box '
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The box, when constructed, was
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