Letter from Masset; THE HERALD, Wednesday, December 15, 1976, PAGE A7 ~ Queen Charlottes — 3 + Atthe rate time continues _ basis -By Elvira Bryant ‘ torace along, this could well ~ be the Christmas edition! I should send prpetings in this edition to all those we have -known at Nass Camp, Terrace and’ Kitimat. ‘ong as I continue to write > for columns such as this, other Jetter communication is going to be on-a scattered ‘throughout the year. ‘Last letter, was written . Just before Vie and I drove to Queen Charlotte City for the special meeting. This was also the night when candidates for the "municipal elections spoke at Fi an Masset, so it was gratifying : to find that quite a number of people still managed to atten the | Salmonid Enhancement meeting. The Library of the Queen - Charlotte school was full and to quote the Observer: “Clearly the Islands’ public is concerned, not nearly so, much aboul enhancement as about protection." “Vie Bryant made a very strong presentation, deploring weak en- -forcernent by the Fisheries Depariment and its quite ‘patent inabilit to follow and implement the Fisheries - Act, He went on to give ‘instances of spawning bed ‘destruction’ and ruining of watersheds, Emphasis in this failure to hew the act must be set not at the door of companies or Individuals but at the Department of Fisheries itself. In an hour long presentation Mr. Bryant referred to the in- sanity of pouring millions of dollars inta hatcheries whilst .these glaring inadequacies on the part of the department were allowing continuing, often irrepairable harm ta an existing, functioning natural resource. ; Ric Hendrickson, in the same vein pointed out how relatively few dollars it would take to restore numerous smail salmon streams on the Islands, In some Instances same straight forward stream clearance might be all that would be required. Masset Rod and Gun's Dick _— Bell Rroposed. amongst other things the posting of bonds by com- panies ‘Hefore they entered watersheds’ rather than trying to prosecute after damage liad taken place. He also ‘spoke -of the need to keep vil tankers routing outgide the new 200 mile limits. Island Protection showed ‘before and after’ slides of Indians had been -gtream and watershed damage. Their emphasis was on. the importance of establishing for the record what existing situations are in creeks and watersheds so that future damage, and indeed future improvements could be accurately references. Al Porter, Dempsey Collinson and Percy Williams spoke oul on equally vital aspects of the resource. Mr. Porter has intimate knowledge of east coast creeks ‘and the needless damage caused by inadequate placing of road culverts. Mr. Collingon put his bit very simply: "Let's stop procrastinating and get something done,” was nis stance. Mr. Williams, last speaker up outlined from rsonal experience what 2 fishery had been like in the past, so that people had some reference with which to compare the fishery of today. A saddening ex- perience. He also cited several instances in which denied access to the food fishery. Program organizers were asked for printed results of this series of ‘Enhancement meetings’ so that com- parisons could be studied and’ any consensus noted The labour market | The following bulielin is based on the results of the Labour Force Survey of Statistics Canada, reference . week ended November 13, 1976, . SUMMARY In November the number of unemployed increased by 7,000 persons from 61,000 ta 98,000. This is in accordance with the usual seasonal pattern at this time of year. Thus the seasonally ad- justed unemployment rate registered no change over jast month, constant at 7.3 percent. .Employment in all in- . dustries dropped off with.the exception of the trade and public administration sectors which both showed a healthy month to month increase of over 2.5 percent. The construction sector appears to have been hit the hardest with-a 6 percent decline from. October's employment level... remaining - LABOUR FORCE AND EMPLOYMENT Although both .em- ployment and labour force’ estimates showed minimal declines from the October levels, the year to year growth remains strong. Employment at 1,051,000 is 49,000 jobs or 4.9 percent higher than the depressed level of November 1975. The rimary and manufacturing industries remain the main source of employment growth providing ap- proximately 37,000 more jobs than last year. ‘ In’ response ‘to’ the in-. : creased employment “op-,. -'portimities in'the primary and manufacturing sectors, the male participation rate has increased. by 1.4 per- centage points over last year, resulting in a 26,000 or 3.8 percent annual increase in the male labour force. In contrast, the growth in the female labour’ force has tapered off considerably, _ registering only a 2.4 per- cent increase on an annual basis. The relatively stagnant service ‘sector which employs about 46 percent of all women would partially ‘explain this discrepancy. UNEMPLOYMENT Unemployment rose by 7,000 between October and November. This represents an increase in the actual unemployment rate — from 7.1 percent to 7.8 percent. When seasonal influences are accounted for, the- unemployment rate did not vary from the 7.3 percent of October. The 15 to 19 age group remains severely . under-employed . . wi almost: ‘20° percent of: its labour force unable-to find work, On a year by year basis, the unemployment situation has improved substantially. In November of Jast year, 102,000 or 9.3 percent of the labour force was unemployment com- pared to 83,000 or 7.8 percent of the labour force this -November, BCAA seeks duty free shops for motorists . Canadian motorists travelling across the in- ternational border should enjoy’ the same duty free shopping privileges as air or sea travellers. according to the B.C, Automobile Association. A BCAA spokesman said its federal organization, the Canadian Automobile Association in Ottawa is urging changes in govern- ment legislation that would permit Canadian duty free shops at international land border crossings. At present there aresuch shops only on the American side of, the international border. Duty Free Shops are under. the jurisdiction of Revenue Canada, Customs, and Excise Branch. Current regulations permit duty free shops in Canadian seaports on both the east and west coasts and at international airports, but not at land border crossings. In pressing for extension of the shopping privileges to Canadians travelling by~ automobile, the BCAA ints gut that Canadian and S. motorists crossing into Canada patronize American duty free shops. Motorists entering the U.S. from Canada cannot enjoy duty free privileges. * Revised regulations that would remove this form of discrimination against motorists have been drafted and -are said awaiting cabinet approval. Mean- while the CAA is pressing for its speedy acceptance, Fight the lung cripplers... _USE CHRISTMAS SEALS _ Dog Liconces for 1977 ., Are Now Available _ The District of Terrace 3215 Eby Street, ee ee (4616 Haugland Avo. (2-6».m.1 District of Torraco By-Law 745 states’ lehat all dogs within the District of terrace must.be liconced. = _ +. DISTRICT OF TERRACE - and acted upon.” ‘I have copies from November 18 weekly edition as it was a very adequate summing up. This morning we woke to rain and wind, but the ar- dent fisherfalk ventured forth despite all this, Tanis and her father have just arrived home in my car without any fish! It seems Vie managed to catch a bulihead, so Carmen was asking him where that was. Ed and his friend, Dennis Humphries, will be back later in the latter’s truck. They had made a raft of sorts to use on the river, but according to reports had to come back and repair it after only journeying along some 80 feet, 50 it is possible both may come home slightly wet if they hit any other submerged object. Last Sunday Vic slept in and missed going on. a successful outing as each of the other three caught a nice steelhead. The smokehouse was put into operation this past week, and now most of that fish has either been consumed or given away — probably even that has soon vanished as it is good eating. When the rain stopped falling, I cut off the dead shasta daisies and picked a small bouquet of purple violets, There are still many buds on the daisies ready to bloom, arid many roses are in bud, The new lawn is quite lush and ee - perhaps things will change when the next equinox arrives. The days are so short that it will be very nice when these start again to lengthen. foticed & beautiful blue heron fly out from the slough yesterday, as we drove over the causeway to go shopping. Last week four eygnets and two parent swans flew in for a visit, but they did not stay long. Vic was telling me. the eagle had no-trouble at all picking up a mud hen on Friday. But it seems the next time when he returned a goose was out among the mud hens and each time the eagle would : dive, the goose would shake its wings, so that the eagle eventually flew off without, another mud hen for its meal. Vie did not know if this was a wounded goose that was doing this or not. There have been two wounded geese seen in the fields this past month. The Lions held a Thousand Dollar Bingo last ‘ week, Attendance was at an all-time high as more than two hundred people at- tended. Extra tables and chairs had to he ‘set up. Actually one does not mind paying to play this game for the Lions since so much good is done with the money taken in y this organization. Just the previous week a giant cheque for one thousand dollars was given to two women who look after the local library on a volunteer basis. The money will go towards the purchase of new My main objection was te the polluted air from so much smoking. Up until that evening | had felt the new hall had been superior to the Legion because one was not bothered by the smoking. That evening my eyes were even affected by the smoke —one dislikes thinking what might be happening to one’s lungs. This past week my brother-in-law has had to have air injected into his lungs to help. out ‘his breathing ability-— he has cancer of the lungs. Ac- cording to reports, even this dread disease could come about for non-smoking Bingo players should they continue to atlend well patronized Bingo sessions! At the recent Delmas Co- op, I was really quite shocked when the president read out the secretary's resignation, at the con- clusion of the meeting. Mrs. Jessie Simpson has been an. active member of cooperatives for many years. It is her belief that no one should become a Director unless he or she plan to attend meetings on a regular basis. Jessie and her husband, Sam, plan to do some travelling together in 1977, and during the month of January will be living in their son and daughter-in-law’s home in Prince Rupert. At the age of seventy-one, Jessie also feels she and her husband should share as much togetherness as is possible. Sam sold his boat earlier this year and for-the first time, they are able to travel together. 1 was asked to interview Jessie both for the Observer and for the Co-ap, so spent over an hour visiting her yesterday afternoon. It will take me a lite while to-do the second report, but { have mailed a shorter article to the Islands’ newspaper. * It was in 1943 that the Masset Consumer's . Co-op was formed jointly wit Haida and Masset members participating. There was na lace available at Masset en, so the building was at Haida. When there was a need fer expansion the Indian Department was contacted! The reply was that the store would have to be all Indian! The other members agreed to with- draw to form a co-operative at Masset, First there was the renting of a small score near the Karlscourt, then the old Queen's Hotel building was purchased on the present site. This was destroyed by fire on August 24, 19596, when there wasn't any fire department in the area, Some supplies were saved and the members were allowed to use part of the new Legion building until the store was rebuilt. Since then Delmas has been enlarged, or has expanded, three different times. The name Delmas was made up from condensing and combining the names Delkatla and Masset. _What’s the rice of cushions There's nathing like having a cushion or surplus in your. _ Personal Chequing Account to take care of unexpected emergencics or opportunities— but at what price? After all. PCAs don't pay interest. But TD does the next best thing. Neo-charge _ chequing For those times that your monthly statement shows a constant cushion of $200. (or more) throughout a whole statement period, TD cancels all chequing charges for that period... “automatically! ot to do | ” with banking ¢ ooo ‘So if you write fair number -_ of cheques No-Charge Chequing ‘could be good value. Ask aboutit at your nearest TD branch. TD Personal Chequing Account slitement: periods cover four or tive, Weeks..On the last day of each period the statements are checked to see if No-Charge Chequing applies. Na-Charge Chequing includes all TD PCAs except TD _ Personal Service Plan which has a fat monthly tee. 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