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The Potters Guild of B.C.

is published 10 times a year. Sub-
missions are welcome, and should
be in the Guild office by the last
Friday of the month, Material may
be eciited for publication.

}| Managing Editor: Jan Kidnie.

Editorial Committee: Bob
Kingsmill, Laurel McGregor, Hiro
Urakami, Nathan Rafla. Anne
Flectham.

Mailing: Mosemary Amon, Jobst
Frohberg. Savita Kshaitrija.

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| The Potters Guild of B.C, mem-
|bership is $20.00-individuals,
$390.00-groups. January to Janu-
ary. See application form elsewhere
in this isaue.

Board of Directors: Tam Irving-
President, D'Arcy Margesson-Vice
President, Kathryn Youngs- Treas-
urer, June MacDonald-Secretary,
Heather Chapman, Bob Kingsmill,
Carol Klasen, Elwin Lowe, Donna
Nabata, Nathan Rafla, Elsa
|Schamis, Laura Taylor.

LIBRARY NEWS

Former long-standing members of the
Guild, Jane and Ed Bradish, have made
a generous donation of thelr ceramic
library to the Guild this summer. We
thank them both for thelr thoughtful-
ness and generosity.

As a result, however, we need a work
party to catalogue the material and doa
bit of general organization. Please give a
call to the office in carly October if you
could spare a morning, afternoon or
evening to help out.

Like it or not, we are having to deal with the Goads and Services Tax's probable ef-
fectiveness by January 1, 1941. Once passed by parliament, the GST will replace
the federal sales tax (FST.

Under the proposed legislation, you MUST register for the GST if you are a person,
business, ororganization with annual sales and revenues of GST-laxable goods and
services over $30,000.

The CABC is offering a session on “The Goods and Services Tax (GST) and You,
The Artist” on Tuesday, September 18th at 7:00 pm at Emily Carr College of Art
and Design, 1399 Johnston 51.. Granville Island.

The presenters are Peter Weinrich, Executive Director of the Canadian Crafts
Counctl, and a member of the Taxation Sub-Committee, Canadian Conference of
the Arts and Canadian Advisory Committee of the Status of the Artist; and Geoff
Dodds, Chartered Accountant, Ernst Young. former CABC member and presently
an advisor, CABC members and students are free; others are charged $5.00.

For those of you selling in the Gallery or in other outlets, if your annual sales are
less than $30,000, tt stil] may be to your advantage toregister as well, and se if you
cannet take part in the above seminar on September 19th, we recommend thal you
phone Revenue Canada at [604] 666-4664 to request the following publications be
sent to you

GST: Should I Register?

GST: Injermation for Small Business

GST: Guide for Small Business

The above publications will also be available in the brary for reference only.
See Greenbarn’s ad for additional Information.

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