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Rory Pinder, 17, of North Vancouver received two stitches to his abdomen at Lions Gate Hospital on Easter: Sunday following.a fight with a 20-year-old male arising from a dispute over an old girl friend. Police said Pinder also received a broken left knuckle during the brawl in the 200-block West 3rd Street about 3'a.m. Sunday. The “weapon allegedly used was a kitchen knife. A companion

- Jater took Pinder to LGH for -treatment. The matter - remains under investigation. |

- "Dog-snatching’ charge likely —

Frederick James Harris, of 1611 Fell Ayenue, faces possible charges under District by-law for unlawfully taking a dog from the North Vancouver animal pound.

‘RCMP are investigating following a complaint filed by the SPCA |

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An 8-year-old Vancouver boy, who was scaling a 150-foot cliff face Fridny In the Nita Lake area north of Squamish, was fatally Injured In a rock slide. Squamish RCMP sald the youth, identified as Alexander Frederick James Bradshaw, was killed instantly after he was pinned under a boulder. The victim and three

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That’s the made by Capilano MLA Gordon Gibson, who says that. almost all of the 10 MLAs named by the gov- ernment to conduct the inquiry ‘‘have close and enduring connection with the

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province.”’ |

As a_ result, declared Gibson in a statement issued last week, the committee’s findings will lack credibility, because it should include equally strong representa- tion of the consumer's interest.

‘‘For too long now the proverbial Nero has been fiddling around trying to decide which group is the

culprit while our pocket books have been getting burnt,’’ he said. ‘'The

farmers blame the distrib- ators, the retailers blame the marketing boards, the super- market chains blame the

wapes being paid to the checkout staff.

‘What was needed was a close-up, behind-the-scenes whole indust

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_ The inquiry into food prices recently.set up by. — the provincial government is rigged in favor of the | farmers and is likely to do little or nothing for the person bearing the brunt of high food costs—the customer at the supermarket checkout.

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The committee of inquiry consists of seven Socred and three NDP members. The government has refused to ‘expand the group to 12 members, so that Gibson, leader, and Conservative. leader Scott. Wallace could be included. Each is the sole representa- tive. of his party in the present legislature. |

“Each of us,’’ Gibson

maintains, “represents a philosophy that is very distinct from the Social

Credit and the NDP. In the last election there were 145,000 voters who suppor- ted the non-Socred, non-NDP alternatives and if public opinion polls mean anything, there are many more today.’’.

That alternate philosophy, said the Liberal leader, has some very important impli- cations for questions such as the use of agricultural land, the structure of marketing boards, the concentration of corporate power in the food industry and the rights of consumers generally.

_ "Those philosphies have a right to be heard in connec-

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