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Courtenay Local’s New Offices

NEW QUARTERS, LOCAL 1-363, Courtenay, recently built by membership on lots recovered from
. Housewarming was held on October 27, when the members found them-
selves in possession of commodious 32’x24’ premises which house an office and meeting hall with

70-person capacity: Seen in front of building is Financial Secretary Jacob Holst, (left) Miss Elaine

hye, stenographer, and IWA member .Charles Wilson.

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NEW AMBULANCE secured for Salmon River Logging

Co. takes
to the road. Purchase was made after representations made by

officials of Local 1-363 regarding necessary transportation of
injured men to hospital. .

Peuclry - Clothing

12 Years Service to 1.W.A. Members

© A COMPLETE JEWELRY LINE :
Including the World's Finest Watches, Diamonds, Silver-
ware, otc.

© THE LEADING LINE OF CUSTOM-TAILORED CLOTHING
Warren K. Cook, i
Aristocrat of Hand-Tailored Suits.

GOLDBLOOM and SON.

701 Dominion Bank Building Vancouver, B.C.

Got His Goat

A tax collector, annoyed be-
cause his next-door neighbor
kept a goat, taxed the animal
four dollars.

The outraged owner protested,

but the ssor insisted that it
was strictly in accordance with
the statutes. “All propercy abut-
ting and abounding on the pub-

lic street,” he read, “shall be
taxed at the rate of two dollars
per front foot.

| Sask. Health Plan >
- Outshines BCHIS

| Here «are highlights of the
. contrast between Saskatche-
wan’s health insurance plan
and the scheme introduced by
British Columbia’s Cvalition
government:
|. The B.C. Plan requires “co-
‘insurance” payments of $2 to
| $8.50 daily for the first ten days
of hospitalization; it’s a scheme
of “ten days deductible” hospital
insurance. Saskatchewan bene-
ficiaries are free from this extra
charge, have personal hospital
bills eliminated by the Provincial
scheme.

| The B.C. Plan excludes “chro-
Inic cases”. The result is arbi-
jtrary “long range diagnosis” by
| government officials in Victoria.
One policy has been to exclude
many hopeless cases from hospi-
| talization benefits, make: them
pay extra to die in hospital. Sas-
katchewan coverage is all-inclu-
sive.

Administrative costs in B.C.
run to 8.5% of total cost, in Sas-
katchewan to 5.2%. Administra-
tive personnel totals over 600 in
| B.C., about 150 in Saskatchewan.

Hospital budgets are subject
|to arbitrary control. by govern-
j ment officials in B.C. The Van-
|couver General took a cut of

$194,357 in its annual budget
without notice. In Saskatchewan
officials sit down with hospital
authorities, help them werk out
financial problems.
Saskatchewan rates are $10 a
year for a single person, m
mum of $30 for a family. Thi:
a tax for the cost providing hos-
pital care as a provincial service;
it’ upplemented by general
evenue raised according to abil-
y to pay. B.C. rates are
30 annual
$40 for

married couples. These

BETTER SRRING 18 BETTER LIVING.

YOU SEE WITH YOUR MIND...

+. the eyes are simply the windows. The actual seeing
process devolves upon the brain which interprets what shows
through the windows. . . . That is why. glasses are not the
answer to all visual problems—and that is why you should
never simply “buy glasses.” . . .Instead, seek
the counsel of a professional vision speci
whose profession is helping your vision,
spective of whether or not you require glasses.

man Oplical

J. J. Abramson |. F. Hollenberg

I ’ x OPTOMETRISTS
_ 734 Granville St. . Vancouver, B.C.

“heft — [Grourd Floor of Vancouver Block}
| Formerly at W. Hastings St.
pe :

now |
for single persons, |

are premium payments designed
to provide individuals with-cover-
age against their personal health
risks.

Collections are 98% complete
in Saskatchewan; evasion is re-
portedly widespread in B.C., be-
cause of inefficient administra-
tion, high fees and a lack of pub-
lic confidence in the Coalition
goyernment’s scheme.

Cost of the Saskatchewan
scheme in 1949: $10,410,444; of
the B.C. scheme, covering only a
few more people, all of them less
adequately, for the year ending
March 31, 1951: $18,075,077.

‘WATSON'S
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WATSON’S «

No. 337

Reversible

| LUMBER MITT

Cut from Davis Extra Heavy
Pearl Mule Split Leather,

These mitts are double sewn
with waxed Irish linen thread

and reinforced with rivets.

A B.C, Product
Manufactured by:

JOHN WATSON

LIM rims Dp

127 EAST SECOND AVE.
VANCOUUER |B.

This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control
Board or by the Government of British Columbia,

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