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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1980-06-11, Page 16sentee owners 16 THE BRUSSELS POST JUNE 11, 1980 See our Representative Pete Huxtable The Wingham Motel Highway 4, Wingham 2n(1,13: 3rd Tuesday of each month on: [Next Visit: June 17] at: • Financial assistance • Management counselling (CASE) •, Management training • Information on government programs for business Can we help you? II FEDERAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT BANK 'Branch Office Address] For prior information please call 271 ,5659 (collect] or write 1036 Ontario Street, Stratford. H & N DAIRY SYSTEMS LTD. Sales, Service & Installation of pipelines & milking parlours R.R.4 WALTON 887-6063 HURON RADIATOR SERVICE Ph. 887.9597 R.R. 3, Brussels )V 111A1 Cranbrook, Ont. 25% off at our new location in Cranbrook next to the General Store CT 1087A Recored Radiators $95.88 Reg-ular Price $127.84' Exchange Exchange Fits most GM Cars & Light Trucks Similar savings on' other cores Sale ends June 30, 1980 Al & US cores for all makes cars, trucks and tractors Sale' Price undertaken a study intos the effects of foreign ownership of land, Professors. Julius Mage , (Geography) and George Brinkman (agricultural eco- nomics) presented the re- sults of the first phase complete with a map indi- cating amount and distri- bution of foreign and absen- tee ownership. Although land may be foreign owned there may be BY RHEA HAMILTON lt is not just foreign ownership that farmers in. Huron Cottnty have to be wary of but absentee owner- ship. The completion of the first phase of a study into foreign ownership was presented to the Huron Federation' of Agriculture Thursday eve, ning. At a request from the federation, the Rural. Devel- opulent Outreach Project has BY MURRAY GAUNT A bill that provides for mandatory union dues .check- Off was introduced in the Ontario Legislature this week by Labour Minister. Robert Elgie. The bill also gives employ:. ers the power to call a supervised vote on the, -last contract offer before or after the beginning of a strike or lockout. Dr. Elgie said that the bill also entitles all employees in. a bargni"ing unit, whether or not tl,ey Ire members of the union, to participate in all strike or. ratification..votes, Union leaders in Ontario described the amendments. as a major gain, achieving labour's long-sought goal of a dues checkoff from all employees in a bargaining unit. The bill does not apply to the construction industry or to an employee who objects a benefit, Prof. Brinkman pointed out that the land could be leased back to the younger farmers or to farm- ers' who wanted to expand their operations but could not afford the cost of buying more land. The first step in the study involved making an inven- tory of • land -affected. by.. all absentee ownership through researching township assess- ment records and registry !provincial projects in 1976, but the Government decided to wait and phase in mun- icipal projects. Under the regulations, all municipal projects except those costing less than $2 million will be covered by the act. However, some projects such as roads or waste disposal sites, will come under the act. regardless of' cost. The regulations will not be applied to municipal projects already under way if they have received council ap- proval or if the land has been purchased for the project. Daily camping fees in- On- tario provincial parks will be increased by fifty cents. beg- inning June 16, Natural Res- ources Minister James Auld has announced. At the new rates, campers will pay $5.50 a night at campgrounds with basic fac- ilities, $6 a night at camp- grounds with expanded com- forts and $7.50 a night for campsites with electricity. The day-use vehicle entry fee will remain the same at $2. The fee increase is the result of rising costs, Mr. Auld said. According to the statement of the Minister, in past years camping was restricted be- fore and after the peak.. summer months because of esckilating costs. But begin- ning Labour Day this year, more parks will now remain open with limited facilities and will charge a reduced rate: $3 for a regular camp- site and $4 for a campsite with clectricitvl By this Christmas, cam- pers will be able to purchase an annual camping pass for the 1981 season, but Mr, Auld's statement did not include what this fee would be. THREE PHASE Electric \ "EVERY TNINO'ELECTRICAL" * ECONOMY * SERVICE QUALITY BARRY BUCHANAN 482-7374 GLENN McLEAN 887-8284 80X I136 0141, office data. Four major absentee farmland owner=TM ship types were identified. They are: foreign - anyone living outside of Canada,' ,95%; On-Ontario Canadian - living in Canada, but not Ontatio, .1%; non-local Ont- ario - living, within Ontario but outside the township in, whiCh the ,land:is located or its adjacent townships, 3.8%; local urban - living in a town, village or hamlet with- in the township in which the land is located or its adjacent townships, 3.8%. The per- centage figures indicate how much county land is involved in these categories. There, were 43 foreign ' owners that could' be ident- ified. Of those, 27 were American and 16 were classed as "other." Non- American foreign owners also tended to acquire par- eels adjacent or in close proximity to each other creat- ing a cluStered effect. McKil- lop, Tuckersmith, Turnberry and East Wiwanosh had no foreign ownership to date, as opposed to Ashfield, Hay, Howick and Stanley town- ships Which had the greatest concentration. Ashfield has 3.4% of its farmland foreign owned. On the other side of the coin, land owned by non- local Ontario type was four times the amount of land foreign owned. . The greatest concentration of land owned by non-local Ontario types was in West Wawanosh and Jurnberty townships where 6.3% and . 9.3% of the assessed farm- land were owned. 4' Each individual non- resident group does not control more arable land than one would expect', the report stated. "However the 'arable land of foreign owned parcels tends to be comprised mainly of class 1 and 2 soils. Questions from the floor indicated members of the , federation had a particulat interest in the, second part 'of' the study that will be done this summer. Jack Riddelly, MPP for Huron Middlesex; ,,com.. mentecl onthe lawyers be has talked to who claimed that they have never been so busy with land transactions as they are now. The new; bill on foreign•ownership .befpre the house this week, if' Passed, would require farm- land to be' registered and a full disclosure made of ownership and capital. In the second phase repre- sentatives from the. RDOP will be interviewing people renting the land and doing more in-depth work into land Ethel management, .Members dis- cussed having the field work- ers talk to. the neighbours of leased lands, as well as the ones leasing the land. The group also hopes to construct a picture of land use with the ' aid of aerial photos as well as questionnaires concerning types of uses.and practises; Leasing arrangements will , also be included in ' the questionnaire. Murray Cul- bert, president of the Hur94 township federation in Bruce county remarked that in Ms township there are 3,000 acres involved in foreign ownership and cautioned that farmers not be *naive about the seriousness of the • problem. members present. We did the 4 S Fitness Test which included the 200 m sprint, an obstacle course, static hang, the standing long jump and also sit ups. Mrs. Ruby, Stepenson of Hamilton visited with friends in the village last week. Mrs. Lee Allan Wardlaw is spending a few days with' Mrs. Douglas Wardlaw. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Lewis of St. Pauls, Mrs. Eion Davidson of Palmer, Sask, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gowing visited with. Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Bray on ThursilaY.- ' on religious grotinds, . It would apply only to. 'Collective agreements renewed or made after the day it comes intolorce. In the view of Dr, Elgie and of union officials, the bill should go a long way toward averting strikes for a first agreement. Municipalities were -in- cluded under the Environ- mental Assessment Act this week, -but it will be several years before private industry will have to meet the act's regulations, Environment Minister 'Harry Parrott has announced. Under the act, municipal- ities will have to submit an environmental impact study on most projects, such as municipal .buildings, waste disposal sites, sewers or roads, to the Environmental Assessment Board for ap- proval. The act was applied to Report from Queen's Park Mandatory dues check off introduced Correspondent PRISCILLA BRAY 887-6086 The Ethel W.I. organized a, bus trip to Kitchener and 1 Milton on Wednesday. The cancer collection for Ethel was $563.90. Thanks to all who helped. The first meeting of the Ethel II Outdoor Oddballs, under the leadership of Mrs. Joan Smith and Mrs. Isabelle Pearson The meeting' for the. Out- door Living 4-H project, was held at the home of Mrs. Joa9 Smith. There were ten Outdoor Oddballs :meet.