them active, say officials from
the gold commissioner’ 3 office, “
‘What companies can do Is
 assemble.a block of claims,.do
“work” on! ssomne, of .them .but
‘dolla: ‘value out to

i ‘TERRACE. — The ‘provificial

gold. ‘commissioner ig expected ‘_
to séon ‘felease a. decision affec-

. ting the Wwnership of a block of
: ims worth millions of .'
he ‘Eskay Creekiarea.
take is a 30 metre gap bet-
ween. a block of claims on which
Corona? Corporation: wants to’.
build a mine in the area, north, of .

But ‘that’ acy ‘only’ effective if
the claims’.touch ; each’ other,
says Rick Conte from the gold
- ‘commissioner’s office.

Ini this particular case, Conte
‘consinues, -the claims, called. the
TOK: group, were first staked itt
1978 under regulations i in \ effect

because, ‘of. Pa regula-
tions ‘which’ Tequire’ work to’ be
done on’ claims by. companies
that have: staked ‘them: to keep."

square block with TOK, {and

TOK 2 side by side dn the ‘bole.

tom, TOK 3 and TOK 4 side by

side in the middle and TOK 5 ¢

and’ TOK 6 side by side ‘at the

The ‘upper boundar
TOK land 2: become. the: bot-

tom. border for TOK'3 ‘and 4

-and the upper boundaries, of

those two become the’ bottom.

border for TOK § and 6: .<
But what was discoveréd

TOK: | to 6 group resembies. a

of.

bang

L

‘1989, during legal nateey work |

done on the claims, was that
TOK-1 and 2 were really 1,600
feet from their bottom -to. ‘the

top, says Conte.

And. because provincial: st
ing regulations state that the

distance is measured from the

bottom, there was now a sap of
30 metres, or 100 feet, from
where TOK } and 2 ended at
their upper boundary to where
TOX 3 and 4 begin at their bot-
tom boundary.

‘And that affects the abilities
of companies to spread the

TERRACE - ‘Although an in-
formation pamphlet produced by
the federal GST Consumer In-
formation Office claimed in-
troduction of the Goods and
Services Tax would mean a drop
in the price of a case of beer, the
manager of a local hotel says
prices have instead gone up.

Noting the seven per cent
GST replaced the ofd 19 per cent
federal sales tax, the pamphict
had suggested the net result
would be a 23 cent decrease per
case, ‘

Not 50, says the Inn of the
West's Debbie McIntyre. As of
Jan, 1, the hotel is now paying
10 cents more. There have also
been increases of as much as 55
cenis.a boitle on some wines,
sheadds.

Asked about the contradiction,
the GST project manager with.
the provincial liquor distribution
nch explained ihe new price

fis reflected iftore than: just the
introduction of the GSTy.. ¥

‘While ‘the tax Tale figures

TERRACE — Terrace's White
Cane Club has no idea where
the money is that was raised for
the local ‘blind support group
through -sales of tickets to a
Christmas variety show that
_never.went ahead.

Club president Felix Goyette
said last week the money raised:
by promoter John McDonald —
who was in charge of selling the,
tickets: — is all gone and the
RCMP have seized all the books
and records relating to the
ticket-selling drive. .
Nearly a month has’ passed

’ since the newly organized club's

variety show was cancelled, but
McDonald remains unavailable

“I for comment and the mioney

raised remains unaccounted for.
When ticket holders showed
up at the: R.E.M.. Lee Theatre

in question. .

doltar valueof their work over a
group of claims because they
are no longer touching, ‘says
Conte. ;

News of. that. gap was acted
upon by ‘a company. called

Tagish Resources Ltd, which

has asked the gold commis. .
sioner to find that ownership i is,
Tagish is asking the ‘gold’
comiftissioner to -declare that
notices of. work filed on the.
claims are false because the-gap
means that doflar value for the
work done could not have been

Fed beer price
forecast off mark.

cited by the Consumer Informa-
tion Office were correct, Theo
Kellner said GST had been part
of a larger piece of legislation
which had also included changes
to the excise Lax ratcs levied on
alcohol by the federal goy-
emmcnt

Jan. 1 had also been the date a
number of changes both under
the General Agreement on Trade

and Tariffs (GATT) and the Free

Trade Agreement had come into
effec.

‘Kellner said the LCB had
calculated the effect of all these
changes and then told their sup-
pliers (brewerics and wineries)
“‘what would happen to the price
of their products in the liquor
stores if their unit price to us
remained the same.””

‘That prompted a flurry of ac-
livity which saw suppliers
‘change the prices on more tan
000,0f the 5,000 products car-
eit by! ‘tie L.CB

away al the door. Similar shows
that McDonald was involved in
organizing for community
groups in Kitimat and Prince
Rupert either didn’t go ahead or
were hastily reorganized at the
. fast minute. ;

R@MP say they are in-
vestigating McDonald's ac-
tivities, but have laid no
charges.

Goyette was greatly upset by

the show's failure, prompting |

B As‘a result, he:
“yal. about’ two » thirds" of the
prices ‘went up, 20. per ‘cent

Missing money remains
mystery to blind club |

spread out, said Con

“What! they want ‘is fc
claims to be eaincelled; that’
were void from the, ‘begin ag
he said. :

“AS a result, Corona has been
told its request for a mineral
lease on the property. has: been”
put on hold pending: a decision.

 Conte'calls the‘decision‘a dif-
ficult one as all activity 1 from the’.
original staking to subsequent *
work to the 1989 ‘siirvey which’:
found the gap was done in good. :

faith.
Cont'd AZ

dropped and the remainder es

slayed the same," .

uke

Patrons of local bars are |
discovering the price of drinks
have gone up substantially morc
than the extra the establishment
is now having to pay for the
beverages. .

That, says McIntyre, is
because ‘the beer is “goods” and
we're providing a ‘service’ so
we have to pay GST on each
drink we sell.”

The additional seven per. cent
means ‘a beer costing $3 before
the tax mow costs $3.20. Al-
though the increase has
prompted angry reactions from
some customers, she adds,
They scem to understand it’s a
price increase because of GST
andnotbecauseofus."”

Also raising. the ire of those
not drinking-and-driving is the

— extacthey now have to pay on

cab fares. ““It begins to add. Op," :
Metniyre poinls cut.

the money collected, they. said,
and he would be responsible for
paying all the bills out of that.

- McDonald was also supposed
to give the club weekly. status
reports on how many tickets
had-been sold and how much
money.:had been’ collected,
Goyette..said, but: that never
happened. -:

Goyette ‘gaid he had to co-sign

_Cont'd A

him to go to Vancouver When it Fiz

became ° apparent the show:

wasn’t going to go ahead, |
‘When it fell apart, I had to
leave town,’’ he said. “I just
couldn't take it anymore.”
Neither Goyette nor anyone
‘else within the club knows if
McDonald ever actually booked

performers for the show, And.

on Dec. ‘15, they were turned _ the absence of any monitoring

a : : of the sales by the club means

deme a 7 they “don’t even know how

bast that piece, nw known as ‘Area much was collected.

Pas | —_ id ““T don’t know how many

prope it was ed That ‘request reflects concerns tickets were sold and I don’t

"disappear. when ‘the: gol boi. » whid at alléd d Aiea: Ay ‘the ‘sub-_raised byghothxprovincial and know how much money came

ois. constructed; arid _dget ofthe: ‘chttent agreement. ul fisfiery agencies about in,” he said. “Everything's at
* provision ‘of a: ‘satisfactory, : “Although” Orleans indicated the effe devélipment on the RCMP. The tickets, the
ds | rier -for a and: other he needed, agreaditiona 20.Sha fish habitat-in this'parcel. books - = ere NE an :
stllitle: servic ng. those proper- te week oyette ani ite Cane vice- ei
tee ese , ’ adjacent, to: réaAtoconstruct Yardley.sai Test eck that president Elizabeth Hong said Do

. the ‘golfcourse, lands: said he

study. thas: ‘ngt yet been carried
- would have-to catry outa. detail-

out and: therefore the fate of
Area B “remains, essentially i in
timbo, at this point.”

“On the ‘Lands ‘branch’ side, .

mi Yardley says:all that remains is
“to survey the area to. establish for enveonmental impaet ong

: exact boundaries for the parcel: | before it would ponsider: selling
“98a whale and the 50m setback: .. ay ite!

McDonald was hired to sell the
tickets for the concert.
McDonald would receive half of

One: those ‘boundaries ‘have ¢*,
Bedis bet, a timber cruise will be itt
‘carried’ out to determine how. |
much .'merchantable.. timber. ;
that is available’ to berenioved'*

is located on the land. ~

| by. & large amount.
“Alderman : Foster, Husoy.. —

INCE RUPERT Coun
“heté:tan’t happy with 8

fare wise amount each in

te ra cou he conditions :

will, not, “however, be charged
‘for: timber located! -withla: the
aetback area because this cannot

7 ~ Orleans’ will be charged. for ssid targe “trucks passin Be on thelr. phone. bile fo

: to the \agreement,. WaYyR ‘ministry ‘decision re passing -

ok gieehed sald Shae "had dine | ‘that timber based on Forest Ser- me truck by-pass reute to shsrough the-city sirecta rales -~
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