Six weeks travel course will study Australian education ‘Next July and August a group of 15-20 persons irom Canada and the United States will visit Australla for ‘six weeks to study -educationsl programs which bridge the gap between school and: community, The course {s planned for university students, teachers and principals, .community ‘school co-ordinators, school council members, agency workers and interested citizens, People may enrol in the course for university stedit or on an audit basis, The course organizer is Dr. Gary Pennington who teaches in the. Faculty of Education at the University of B.C. He had led similar ‘Bummer atudy tours -for teachers in both England and Scandinavia and has just returned from a six month slay in Australia where he andi seminars with govern- was Visiting Education Fellow at Ballarat College, ights of the course will include week-long visits in small groups to both urban and rural schools, lectures ment officials and educational leaders, on- gampus atud at colleges and universities, short-term Internships with. community agencies, and planning workshope with Australian jedchers and .community group will leave y air in late workers. ‘Ine tour Vancouver Value-added tax plan could produce ~. a million jobs for Canada says bank seriously Nonethless when his economists produced such a plan inst fall, Richard M. Thomson, chairman and chief executive officer of the Toronto Dominion Bank was a tile ureasy. After aii, it wan his job to make the plan public. “Are you people sure about this?” he asked, “Have he thought it ho coleag yeh Loaiebuy n abd Boyes. A GOOD START will require Dew jobs in the 1960's the bank’s scheme can only en Ne to... the: Tak Foret on Canadian Unity, the Hoxal Canadian an Legion is taking its Odd Claims — A chef eamplednhis rich * sauces 0 often that he was stricken with gout—and he applied for workmen’s compensation from his - surance. company.” oa och ilngenthuntst trousers after a successful day at the race track. But his windfall went up in amoke when he accidentally set ‘his pants on fire while lighting a cigarette. He tried to collest the Joss from his insurance company, Those are two of the manx humorus cases that came . geross the desks of Actna ‘tying Protect the (dentities of the Gaiman ta, ’ AFloreda man who set out for a fun-filled day of water — When Sister Arlene Violet entered the convent Ln 1961 at the age of 18, she never dreamed she would become a lawyer and take the bishop to court. Now ahe says that is part of her work to serve God and her community. Sil a member of the Sisters of Mercy, Sister Violet saye she does not mind the: ‘fact that ‘she is sometimes at | ‘with the estab: church, “When I have a differing. point of view, I have a dif- enamel be considered a good start. Peters.admits, in fact, that the plan may-not create a " million jobs. . ' “What we're saying is that there ip. a potential there for one million - jobs,’ ’ he said in an interview. ‘That's a target we should shoot at.” "If we even get a half million new jobs, it would be well worth it.” Peter's team would create ihe jobs by creating in- centives to boost manufacturing the industry produces finished goods, For struggling : manufacturers the bank plan would change its tax and hence, its tax rate. It would mean manufacturing dirms would not have to pay income tax but a tax on what the bank calls Its “value- added." ‘ ply put, value-added refera the Canadian content fight against separation to all 600,000 members. ’ The legion’s own task force, headed by Robert McChesney, immediate past’ More than face was red skiing ended up being imocked unconscious by a fish and his boat wrecked after si into a tree, another claim . shows: The | ~ ‘ gkipper “and “three’'com:'. derstanding betw | two “pantons who were skiing'in a-~ yas" that He would drive: the river apparently stirred up the water so much that fish | became overstimulated. One fish leaped out of the water, shattered the boat’s wind- shield and knocked the skipper unconscious. The pi- less boat crashed into a tree. : AT WITS’END Another Aetna policy holder was at his wits’ end a deal oni gone hyperactive ‘mosquitoes, the middle of the night, he leaped cut of bed and, unable to stand the torment any longer, sprayed the insects into oblivion. When he woke discovered he has stayed verted he spra his entire bedroom with red paint—not = In- fering point of view, but 1° realize that they have a right to thelr opinions, too,’’ she The battle with Bishop Danie! Cronin, ofnneatby Fall River, Mass., happen in the.summer ofnl975 over confusion about the lease on a day-care centre in a building owned by the church, . The bishop ordered the centre to vacate, and Sister - Violet took. himi’ to Suffolk County district ‘court. “The bishop locked us out © on added value is - year-olds.” dn manufacture goods. - Every rise in the Canadian content of a product is noted as value-added. Of course, the more alue added, the lower the tax rate. ADD LABOR COSTS For. the bank’s purposes the alue can be in the cost of materlals,supplies. energy and particularly labor, acquired or made in Canada. “For example," sald Peters, “‘If.a manufacturer imports a $90 item and. puts $10 on the value on It in Canada, then sells it, the tax going to be higher than if he imported a $lditem and put $90 of added value on it.” Thus, the bases of the tax rate would not be on earning but on value-added. Aim of he plan is to en- courage manufacturers to add as much value as possible to their product. To Legion will fight for unity — national president, presented Friday Its case to about 50 executive members of the Saskatchwan Com- mand, The legion has 28,000 secticide. Aetna says a woman filed a claim fora stolen car after she lent her car to a man she planned to marry. The un- StH Jotween the two car cross-country and meet her for the nuptials, Aetna said, Several months later, the woman concluded that her fiance had gone weat with the car and had “forgotten” about the wedding, In another daim, mortician filed a claim seeking payment for a strained back he said he recelyednfrom lifting one too many coffins into is hearse, Aetna asked a New Jersey woman to explain how she was hit by # toilet seat that fell on her head. She told an Aetna claims representative that the seat. was. hanging from an overhead display In a variety store andnfell as she walked beneath it. and the court ordered him to keep it open,” he said, “J found out later—I didn’t know it then—that- under canon law you can be ex- communicated, bringin automatically for ga bishop to a secular court, I didn't know that you could be excommunicated for vin- dicating the rights of three- Sister Violet was not ex- communicated, and she says’ ’ she is on good terms with the bishop now. “ * Adopting from overseas TORONTO (CP) — Helke'’ prepa Ferrie, director and co- founder of. an adoption - foundation, saya difficulties with the federal immigration department may force the foundation to end its adop- tion work in Canada. - The Kuan-¥Yen Foundation helpa to bring children from the Far East to North .America ‘for. medical treatment and adoption. In th foundatton's anual Teport, 1 Ferrie 68 personal prejujices of staff members. of Canadian Commission. In. New India, have resulted in gthy delays for. some of , dhe pn involved. - Mra. Ferrie said in a tele- poe -inte-view from Bur-. lington, Ont., that she has redina list of 16 children the foundation has tried to bring into the country during the past twd years only to be opposed’ by Canadian authorities. ‘ - She said one case involves a battered child whom Canadian: authorities said could be treated. in India. Indian doctors had referred - the child to the foundation. 2 CULLEN TO. GET LIST . She said she plans to send | the list to Bud Cullen, me- nister. of employment ‘and immigration: «. Poter Current, special aasistant to Cullen, said the minister wants.to meet Mrs, “He wants to hear exactly ,, What her goals are and how “they ‘are being thwarted,” mT . ae a gration problems = ef Current sald. “On the other hand, he wantsher to be sure... ‘that she understands our. particular ‘obligations : with respect to the Immigration ct,” . . Mrs. Ferrie returned from | India last weelmwith five children who are medceally fit. But she sald three other children, one waiting. to come to Canada for treat-. ment; have. been delayed ficials, ay The foundation has been “brino. mtatah abgren.. children in need of medical - help to North America each year, she said, During 1976-77, about 200 children were referred to the | foundation for help. . of a company's Her private practice, -because of Canadian of-. do this, they will have to increase production and aiso jobs-at least one million, so the bank ho; Valued adged is calculated by defining the value of sales profucts Manufactured in ita own Canadian plant minus the cost of materials supplies, fuel, and electricity. 1974 TAX BASE Based on 1974 figures the value-added as percent of salea for the priamry metals industry would have haan 41.7 percent or-$2.7 billion. ” That would be its tax base. Its tax rate would be five percent. The bank calculates that for manufacturing ag a whole in 1074 the average lax rate, computed on a value- added vasis, would have fallen to 5.3 percent from 7.8 percent reducing: manufacturers’ corporate members in 300 branches. seen id the legion esney faid the has formed its own task force to discuss the brief,. which it has seat to the federal task force, with each of the provincial commands. He anid the. provincial commands will form their own task forces and carry . theword for national unity to ail members of the legion as wellas other members of the comamalen ties in which they ve, |. oo, “Cariada isin great danger breaking up and the legion - would not .ait. idly by. and; “watch the dismemberment < of the country, but rather, would take an. active tion in in- preservation of a single nation,” he sald. “There must be a ‘prompt & and significant change ‘in attitude in every part of our nation.” a Jules Daigle of Montreal, president of. the Quebec Command, also said Canada “must. rémain united.” He said it is ‘‘useleas to de- bate the past” and “all Canadiana. must work: together on today’s problems and to .do this, racial prejudices must he. set ’ aside. Nun takes Bishop to court 7 located in a. small Main Street office, concentrates . on environmental law and civil ‘reghts for the han-° dicapped, She lives with six other nuns. Everything Sister Violet -earms goes back to the Sisters of Mercy, She receives a monthly stipend of $560, - DATE: covering the year 1977, In order to be eligibte to v HOSPITAL SOCIETY | ~ Annual Meeting Wednesday, June 7), 1978 . TIME: = 6:00 p.m. PLACE: Lecture Theatre ; Caledonia Senlor Secondary School ~ The business will consist af the etectlon'of members of, | tha Society, the electian of the members to serve on the’ Hospital Board of Trustees, and presentation of reparts ; CoS 2 Su purchased before Sunday, May 7, 1978. Membership A may be purchased at tha foltawing locailons: Mills: Memorial Hospital Royal Bank of Canada Toronte Dominion Bank taxes by about $900 million. There is an international competitve advantage too because when these goods are’ exported the tax is rebated at the border. In other words the manufac- turer will be able to sell his goods abroadmuhe value- added tax making them more: competitive. European Common Market countries currently sell their goods abroad minus a value-added tax. The only difference between the two systems is that the European plan has a fixed tax rate. Peter’s scheme proposes a variable tax rate, or one that varies with the degree of value-added by the business. — June, 1978. The first week will be at Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Eduecatidn. Week two will be spent in Melbourne area schools. During the third week students will be at Ballarat College which lies approximately 70 miles economists hope that acheme will help the nation move away from a branch plant ecanomy heavily dependent on imports of manufactured goods. REPLACE IMPORTS They would like to see Canada follow a policy of import substitution that Is substituting goods, “Look, out market is twice the size of Japan," said Peters, “Yet, Japan imports only about $14 miilion in manufactured goods. Canada imports $28 million to $30 million." Toronto Dominion bank experts say the value added system will be a boon to auch labor-intensive areas as the furniture, rubber, plastic. , Vic Stephens reprimanded ‘VANCOUVER CP -Vie , Stephens, leader of British Co umbia’s' Progressive Conservative Party, was cited. in’ a split-vote Friday for conduct unbecoming a member of the Law Society of B.C.- a reprimand that will be included in his con- duct record. a veteran and. Stephens, recently-elected MLA for . Qak Bay, said the case against .him threatened freedom of the press and would ‘‘strongly —in-hibit freedom of speech.” The censure vote, taken hearing, was a split decision by 20 of the 24 eligible ben- _ chers casting ballots, It was dssued onthe grounds. that. by Stephens to the news media about new storefront legal services practice in Vancouver the. constituted advertising. - _ “TL want to ensure my right to answer questions from the right of the public to hear. these answera,’"’ Stephens said his harshly-worded lence, ; “Let the public decide, . Don't gag and tell people what they can and ‘cannot Stephens made the con- troversial.comments during interviews granted shortly after his new practice opened on Ap 4,1977 though be did not seek out the media or blatantly ad- vertise, he did detail the new. operation, its methods and fea structure when - questioned by reporters, . AGAINST ADVERTISING | Law cousel Jack Giles said the public appearance constitued advertising: stricly forbidden by the society’s code of ethics. The practice . offera reduced rate advice and ‘services on such matters as divorce, estate issues and setting up companies, at fees - which are coparatively low. D DISTRICT - SH ote, membership “must ub a. ‘comments made, last spring . Stephens called it" a new concept in legal services”, and said he knew the in- terviews would. result in increased business for the storefront operation. But, he ’ said, he felt he had a public respongibility to bring the “gelf-help: style of legal services” to people’s at- ‘tention. ; Giles told the benchers the - public discussion of the storefront was contrary. the public Interest and the interest of the profession and Stephens, actlons tended for ‘lower public esteem for following a four-hour society la Wyers. . He said it was inherently acceptable to discuss in the ~media matters of public _interest,: including. legal “linies: but it.is ‘not ac- ceptable when the purpose is to promote the member's own _business.’’ COLLECTION TED . TORONTO (CR) — The Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire has presented a - collection of 38 Winifredn- Petchéy Marsh watercolors to the Prince of Wales Museum at Yellowknife, ‘N.W.T. The paintings depict thelife-style of the Padiimuit PRESEN- Tribe of the Caribou - Eskimos. ee ee ee ee fo April 8th at the Bo00C2C0C000COO eee ee eee 244506000020 0C00C0G8 THE HERALD, Monday, north of Melbourne, In week four people will be distributed in pairs throughout Victoria at small country schools, The group will travel to Adelaide for the fifth week of the program wherethey will visit community and school Programs and meet with outstanding people in the field of. community education. The final ten days are left free for people to travel individually or in groups according to their own atrangements to areas of interest, The group will aasemble in Sydney in mid: August for the return flight to Canada, Dr. Pennington . em- phasizes that weekends, most evenings, and many afternoons will be left open so that people enrolled in the course may take advantage of the wide variety of cultural experiences available to them in Australia, Bush walking, surfing, theatre going, an- tique hunting, weekend safaris, orienteering, sailing, football matches, the opera, and pub crawling are among the many things which will form the very important optional ‘‘in- formal curriculum” of the course. . Accommodation is scheduled for hostels, private homes, and college dormitoreis, Where possible participants will stay in the mea of host teachers and others so ag to experience as fully as possible the Australian culture, Friends and colleagues . in Melbourn,’ Warrnambool, Ballarat, Adelaide and coutry areas have ; guaranteed thelr help in making the Canadian visit.a memorable one, Anyone who has experienced Australian Canada. April 3, 1978 PAGE 3 every attempt has been made to keep costs to a minimum. Dr, Pennington indicates that he is pleased that the overall nay alightle six week tour is on tl more than the cont of one regular return alr fare to Australia. With respect to: ground transport a very attractive course feature is that each participant will be given a 17,000 mile bus pass. Since travel specifically Telated to the course will we only a small portion of the mileage allotment people will haveia means of tran- ‘sport for much of their free e Dr. Pennington says, “Canada and Australia are remarkably similar coun- tries in many ways. The parallel stages of growth education and other aapects af our cultures certainly suggest that we should get together to share our ex- periences, our plans, .and our problems. My recent six month visit to Australia was a tremendous eye-opener. The stereotype I carried around with me about Australia and Australlans has been replaced by a much better understanding. North Americans have had a fixation on Europe for = educationel and travel. purposes. It’s high time we ted our energies and searches to Third World and Pacific .Rim countries. I'm excited about this venture into Australian culture and education. It is certain a provide a bow at worthwhile experiences for those who take part.”’ People interested in the course are invited to contact Dr. Gary Pennington, Faculty of Education, ° University of British. bia, Vancouver, B.C. VéT ° 1W5. hospitality will know the Telephone: B: 228-6986, 228- uarnates is a good one. Cost for the course in- cluding course fees, air travel, ground transport, and food and lodging, between $1,965 and $2,050 - (Canadian). The final cost figure within this range will be dependent ‘upon enrolment, In planning ‘5H, R: 926-4641, SINGER MIGHT. PLAY ROLE Singer Michelle Phillips may be offered a role op- posite Laurence Olivier and Robert Duvall in a screen version of Chicago Giri. ‘Contracts for moorage at MK Bay Marina for the 1978-79 season have been circulated. A If you do not receive yours in the mail and’ Wish to retain a moorage spot, please contact elther Custom Sports at 632-4655 or the Regional District a? 635-7251. 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