Local reps to NAG meeting —

‘Two local women :will
represent the Terrace
’ Women’s Organization at the
annual meeting of the
National Action Committee
on the Status of Women held
in Ottawa this weekend.
Lorna Romilly and Alice
Chen-Wing will attend the
meeting which ~ begins
Friday, March 17,° when

Politics and a workshop on

rape, wife battering, por-
nography and violence

against women and
children,
A banquet, a workshop on

lobbying and displays from
women's groups across
Canada will all be part of the
program.

At the annual meeting on

March 19, the election of
officers for 1978-79 will take
place and reports on NAC
activities for the past year
will be given.

Monday will be the scene
of a parliamentary lobby of
Members of Parliament.
Members of the NAC will
meet with the caucusses of

the four major political
parties and will lobby on
issues of concern to Women.

The. National Action

Committee on the Status of
Women is. an umbrella
organization .of more than
100 women’s groups -in
Canada.
Kay MacPherson. -

The president Is

fewer overs = Government investigators —

- Communications and,

Publications.

_ NAC executive members

will be presenting a brief to

Cabinet on Friday morning

: goncerned with the economic

outlook.

- -' On Saturday, the com-
mittee will discuss ‘Equal
Pay for Work of Equal

_ Value” and “Women and
Violence." The new Human
Rights legislation will focus

“are preparing

investigators
to laumcm a
major offensive against
dishoriest car and appliance
repairmen by anonymously
testing repairmen, Con-
sumer and Corporate Affairs
Minister Rafe Mair said

Government

on the former and the today.

sessions on women and
violence will examine
- problems associated with

_Brief

IRVINE NEW TOWN,
Beatlend (CP) — Police a
Ayrshire town are on
lookout for a thief who stole
_ finger George Watson’s sult,

Said a police officer: “We:

could be looking for a ver

big thief—or several ama

ones." George is six feet, 244

Inches tall and weighs 23
_ stone (322 pounds).

REWARD OFFERED
_ _ HOVE, England (CP) —
Company director Peter
. North {s offering a &100
(§200) reward and a new
front door to anyone’ who
| finds his cat which disap-
. peared from his storm-
window showroom in this
. Sussex town.

UN-

Mair said In a news release
issued before he held a news
conference to explain the
crackdown: that he has
authorized a program of spot
checks AUBE ‘of
widespread dishonesty and
inefficiency already
revealed by investigators.

“Tt was shocked to learn
that poor or unnecessary
repairs were performed in 16
out of 18 tests of television

,” the minister sald.

‘Almost as disappointing
were tests of ‘ear repairs
which showed that more
than a quarter of the 46
repairmen checked were
dishonest or inefficient.”

Ander. the new program,

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investigators will select
repair firma at random end
ask for repairs to cars and
appliances with known
defects, Mair said.

They will compare the
estimates and .work done
with the actual requirements
as established by technical
experts, he said,

SMALL SAMPLE

“The program will begin
with a small sample of firms
in _— different com-
munities,nand will be con-
ducted intermittentiy
throughout the year,” Mair
said. “We will not consider
increasing the effort unless
we find that mx warning
today goes unheeded,”

The minister said
dishonesty already un-
covered not be
prosecuted because in-
vestigators were refining

prosecutionf of

to check up on repairmen

their testing techniques to
ensure that it waa fait to
businessmen and that. it-
would provide evidence suf-
flelent for eriminal prose-

cutions.

-He said the businesses In-
volved now will be told of the
incidents uncovered, and
warned that they are likely
to be tested again. ;

‘Mair said that although
there will be public
- any

dishonesty, there will be no

regular reports on the tests
that
scrupulous repairmen in any

could agsist un-

community to estimate their
chances of being caught.

-KEEP ORDINARY. |

‘He streased that no effort

will be ‘made to induce
repairmen to treat in-
vestigators differently than
ordinary consumers.

Jaycee Trades
Fair in June

The Terrace Jaycees
announced today that they
will host the Annual Trades
Fair once again. The ‘78 fair
will be the sixth annual
gathering, according to

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