Scrapping of crown grants for mining leases held safeguard VICTORIA, B.C. Scrapping crown grants in the mining industry in favor of a lease system provides a safeguard for the people that Wenner-Gren interests will not be able to sit tight for a long period on mineral deposits without going ‘ahead with other aspects of the development plan in the Rocky Mountain Trench, Socred member William Asselstine (Atlin) “told the House this week. (Mines Minister Kenneth Kiernan announced in the leg- islature last Friday that the B.C. mining law will be over- hauled “so as to retain for the people the final right to their mineral resources.”’) Asselstine, Liberal minister of mines in the Pattullo gov- ernment during the thirties, pointed out that the crown grants system has hindered es- tablishment of a steel industry in the province, because iron ore “is shipped in large quan- tities to Japan and nothing can be done about it ... yet iron ore is needed to set up a steel industry here.” If Wenner-Gren interests, which are at the present time “undoubtedly making surveys of the area” should find valu- able mineral deposits, and then say in a couple of years that they “had decided not to go farther with the work” the government, under the crown grants system, would have been helpless. “Under this amend- ment to the Mining Act we'll be in a position to sit down and talk business,” claimed Asselstine. The Atlin member devoted the whole of his speech to the northland, which “is destined to bring this province a con- tinued era of prosperity if it’s opened up.” He praised the Stewart- Cassiar road program, and said that in the past year some $2 million had been spent in his constituency on mining explor- ation alone. Making a strong plea for “some form of government compensation for prospectors,” Asselstine lauded the men who engage in this hazardous occu- pation. In his area there are many young whites and Native Indians “born and raised in the woods” who would make fine prospectors if the govern- ment would “give them an op- portunity to get a little train- ing.” Z Richard Newton (SC, Col- umbia), was also full of praise for the Wenner-Gren deal, and read a newspaper clipping cit- ing Vancouver Board of Trade support for the scheme. Not nearly so enthusiastic was Randolph Harding (CCF, OVALTINE CAFE 251 EAST HASTINGS Vancouver, B.C. 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But he was afraid that “the company which owns the monorail will have a stranglehold on the en- tire area — an area twice the size of Nova Scotia.” The CCF member said he didn’t like the idea of a priv- ately-owned railway operating ing in B.C. “What about quipped a Socred. “It’s a transcontinental sys- tem,” answered Harding, and went on to query the effect- iveness of a monorail railway. “I’m not against technologi- cal progress,” he said, “but this monorail will have to hook up with an orthodox railway sys- tem, and when you start trans- ferring freight you are going to have a sharp increase in costs. So far there is no satis- factory explanation of how this transfer will be done.” (Einar Gunderson, vice- president of the PGE and only Canadian director of Wenner- Gren’s company, said recently on the question of transferring freight that the monorail could be built over the top of the PGE at division points and shipnyents would be dropped from beneath the monorail into the PGE cars.) the. CPR2” PATRONIZE — CARNEL‘’S COFFEE SHOP 410 Main Street Under New Management Robbie & Grace Robertson “Everything in Flowers” FROM EARL SYKES 56 E. Hastings St., PA. 3855 Vancouver, B.C. CONSTANTINE Fine Custom Tailoring Ladies’ and Gentlemen Rm. 118, 603 W. Hastings St. PA. 5810, Vancouver 2, B.C. DEAVES TRANSFER Moving & General Cartage Reasonable Rates TERRY BA. 3024 é NEW ZENITH CAFE 105 E. Hastings St. For the Finest in Good Eating Indian problems will be probed VICTORIA, B.C. Labor Minister Lyle Wicks this week introduced a motion in the legislature calling for the labor committee to study the “urgent need” to improve the lot of Native Indians in the province. The committee will be asked to bring in recommendations covering vocational, technical and apprenticeship training fa- cilities for Native Indians to widen their opportunities for employment. ON CBC NEXT WEEK The darkest day in the his- with tory of Halifax was December 6, 1917, when the munitions ship Mont Blanc collided with another ship in the harbor. The resulting explosion and its devastating effects were used as the basis of Hugh MacLen- nan’s novel Barometer Rising. Radio listeners will be able to hear the five-part adapta- tion of the book, starting Mon- day, March 11, at 8 p.m., over CBG: Os at bes What happens when a super- sonic fighter plane is unable to release its H-bomb and can- not return to its base is the theme of a dramatic half-hour play by Terry Bate, to be heard over radio CBC, Friday, March 15, at 8:30 p.m. The author is an ex-RAF pilot and navigator Nehru interview, talk on film art in the Middle — service East and Britain. % it % A series of three talks 0D The Art of the Movies by Lav + rence Nowry will begin 0 Wednesday, March 13, at 10:15 p.m., over CBC radio. The first talk will give a general out- line on the present state ° the movies. In the two succeed ing talks, Nowry will discus the careers of two men wh? helped make movies an art, Eisenstein: the Russian film fnaker and Charles Chaplin thé film artist.. Sts eke / Conversation With Nehtl will be seén again over CB television at 10 p.m., Tuesdays | March 12. 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