LETTERS

... from: Grove Ceramic Studio,
2218 Sooke Rd. , Colwood, Victoria, B.C.

As anew member of the B.C. Potters' Guild I have received the
"Western Potter" for the first time with your July edition.
I am very pleased with its contents, especially with the articles
concerning the Excise Tax and the one by Sue Arundel about B. B.C.
and C,M, T.
The Excise Tax question really needs to be pushed forward, and
though many craftsmen ignore this Tax, they should join our chorus
for assistance.
By the way, I still have a circular of Miss Norah McCullough here,
dated May '67, where she highly recommends membership in the
World Crafts Council whose representative in Canada she is. Is the
B.C. Potters' Guild connected with this institution? It seems not to
be so, as your July edition recommends the 9th Biennial International
Exhibition Sao Paulo too late for anybody who would be interested to
participate in it, especially members who reccived your publication
very late. The foresaid exhibition was already published in the
December 66 edition of the W.C.C, Newsletter among many other 67
international exhibitions of interest. I feel there could be something
done to give those who can't afford to be individual members in all
the important arts and crafts institutions sufficient and up-to-date
news by trying to form group membership for at least the most
important ones, like the W.C.C.

Jan Grove.

... from: Santo Mignosa,
via S. Martino della Battaglia,
Priolo, 90010, Siracusa, Italy.

It was during the middle of August when I drove into Rome. The
"Ferragosto" was very hot and it was holiday time and finding the
studio of Ceramist Nino Caruso was quite a task. One way streets,
narrow streets, dead end streets, courtyards and thousands of MAD
drivers didn't help either. It took me about 1 and 1/2 hours to find
his hideaway corner situated in the middle of historic Rome at