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Point Atkinson
Wednesday

_Increases coming
_in North Van City

GARBAGE RATES for North Vancouver City will
be increased 11 per cent this month.

Council approved a
schedule Monday which
will see the annual rates for
once a week pick-up at all
residences. and dwellings rise
from $46.to $S3:56. _

Commercial rates will also
rise to $51.56 for once a week
pick-up, $112.49 for twice a.
week, $196.85 three times. a
week, $824.90 four times a
week and $1,406.08 five
times a week..

The 11 per cent hike for the
average resident is due to in-
creased dumping costs. The
right to such increases was in-
cluded in the five-year con-
tract with Smithrite which
was awarded last year.

**] don’t approve of sub-
contracting and if I had been
on Council at the time I
would have argued against it.
We lost eight City employees,
and are getting the same ser-
vice,’” commented Alderman
John Braithwaite.

According to the City
Engineer’s report to North
Vancouver Council,

Smithrite’s service is produc-
ing. virtually the same results
with: the same number of
complaints and problems.

City staff may have been
able to continue to provide
the service without i increasing
rates..City wages have not in-
creased, while tonnage col-
lected is down-due to-the new
newspaper collection subcon-
tractor who is serving North
Vancouver City and District
and West Vancouver.

City staff attempted to re-
tain. the garbage service but
were unable to streamline
their operation to underbid
private enterprise.

West Vancouver has also
contracted out its garbage
collection, but the District of
North Vancouver and the Ci-
ty of Vancouver continue to
provide this service, believing
that staff should be able to
do the job cheaper without
need for making a profit.

NO FOUL PLAY

Bones found

on hillside
in North Van

NORTH VANCOUVER
RCMP are investigating the
grisly discovery of human re
mains on a hillside off Moun
tain Highway

Bones found tn the area are
believed to be that of an adult
malic, say police, who add
that because a number of
bones appear to have been

removed from the arca by
wild animals, it ts unlikely
that idenufication can casily
be made

Foul play 1s sot capected as
a belt and tic were found
hanging in a tree near the
bones, leading police to
believe the remains may be
those of a suicide victum