VICTORIA (CP) —
Graham Lea (NDP — Prince
Rupert) accused the Social
Credit government Thur-
Eday of selling Crown land to
the real estate industry for
speculation purposes, -
Minister Jim
chabet” said the charge is
untrue and the land was
belng sold through real
estate agencies because it is
the “most effective way’ of
turning Crown land over to
the people,” *
Chabot said no deals have
been struck with the Real
’ Estate Associatlon of British
- Columbia
and any
suggestion to the contrary
B.C. BRIEFS”
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-bia,
LYTTON, B.C. (CP) —
The Workers’ Compensation
Board says the provincial -
highways ministry violated
industrial health and safety
regulations when it, allowed
the Lytton ferry to operate
for two days last week,
The Violations are ee in
& report issu owing an
investigation into an ac-
eldent May 29 when the ferry
was spun around by a back
Workers
return.
NANAIMO, B.C, (CP) —
Work resunied at the
MacMillan. Bloedel . Lid.
Harmac pulp mill at this
Vancouver Island com-
munity Thuraday morning,
ending a two-day work atop-
page.’
The 1,500. workers,
members of the Pulp, Paper
and Woodworkers of
Canada, local 8, had been off
the job since Monday af-
ternoon when striking long-
shoremen set wu a in-
formation picket
They had already ‘decided
earlier in the day to walk out
in support of 150 members at
a plant sawmill who had left
md tle
of ing t
aid facilities.
GM says
it'll pay
VICTORIA (CP) “—
General Motors of Canada
Meee ut ety $200 in com-
on to about 300 of its
ustomers in British Colum-
Thursday.
Nielsen said in a newa
release the compensation
will go to those who bought
1977 Pontlacs, Buicks and
Oldsmobiles with engines
promoted as brandname |
products without being told
the cars were equipped with
’ nor-brand-name engines.
‘He said the agreement
covers only those cars
bought and delivered before
April 15, 1977, the date by
which GM took stena to
-discloae any substitutions,
Youths
charged
KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) —
Six Kamloops youths have
been charged with wilfull
damage follow ing ins
overnight graduation pa
ROMP said the six were
charged after a snowmobile
and trailer were get on fire, a
camper trick turned over
and winlows broken in two
trucks and a car early
Thursday.
Police aid Timothy Roy
Chambers, Robert Wayne
Musgrove, Thomas Patrick
Nystrom, Robert: Hadath,
Gene Toma and Roy
Roberts, all 18, were
arrested in a wooded area
Thursday.
At levst five of those
-charged are members of the
graduating class of West-
syde senior secondary
achool, RCMP said,
Program —
Fr
said ok
VICTORIA (CP) — A
Swedish doctor who helped
develop a _ treatment
program for heroin addicts
In Sweden says British
Columbia's compulsory
heroin treatment program
has a good basis for success.
Dr. Olef - Blix, who
developed a court diversion
program for addicts, said the
community support and
supervision provision in the
B,C, program isa unique and
particularly good idea.
Blix, who studled the pra-
gram’s outpatient clinica
and residential treatment
facilities in Vancouver, sald
experiance has shown that if
addicts sre left to fend for
themselves at the end of
intensive treatment, they
are likely to resume taking
. drugs.
eddy in the swift-moving
Fraser River. -.
On May 8, the ferry-broke
from its guide lines and tray-
elled 30 kilometres down the
Fraser to Boston Bar. The
May 29 accident occurred
two days after the ferry was
pul back in service.
appears to be speculation.
Lea told the legislature
that two lots in the govern-
mentowned «.-Hayesville
Mobile Home Park in Prince
Rupert had been sold to Atlin‘
Retails Ltd. One of the
leading figures in the firm is
Roy Webber, a past
president of .: Social Credit
Hing association in Prince
Rupert. |
Lea ‘said in the past the
Prince Rupert Credit Union
had purchased land from the
‘government, paying a 3 1-2
or cent commission and ;
passing the saving to
customers, Now anyone
‘wanting to buy Crown land
Bennett asking
for gov't action
VICTORIA (CP) -
Premier Bill Bennett urged
Prime Minister Joe Clark
Thursday to take whatever
action is necessary to end a
‘labor dispute which hag shut
down West Coast porta.
: Bennett, in telegrams to
Clark in his capacity as pre-
mier and ag chairman of the
‘Western premiers’ |
“ gon-
ference,. expressed concern
about the effect of ‘the
dispute on the economy of
Canada.
The 3,500-member Inter.
national Longshoremen’s
and Warehousemen’s Union
went on strike at seven B.C.
would have to pay five per
cent, he sald,
Outside the house, Lea
‘said the government was
giving .a “gift to the real
estate industry.”
He said Crown land was .
being seld through real
estate firma in Vancouver
A ridge of high pressure
will -provide more sunny
skiea today but the weekend
outlook calls for cloudy
skies, showers and cooler
temperatures.
The expected high today Is
20 degrees Celslus today and
the overnight. low is 7
degrees.
Consumer . Affaira :|
‘Minister’ Jim Nielsen said
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