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Page 4—Lochnow Sentinel, Wednesday, June 13, 1979
igtry won't stop•
absentee ownership.
Foreign ownership of
farmland in Huron
County has gone up about
65 percent in two years,
but it still represents less
than half of one perebnt of
the total acreage in the
county, an Ontario
agriculture • ministry
survey found.
Agriculture Minister
William Newman on
Monday. said he ,doesn't
see any reason, based on
,the statistics, to take
action to halt the spread
of foreign ownership of
farmland. He 1said the
ministry will continue to
keep an eye on the
situation.
Newman was
questioned about the
Survey in the legislature
by Liberal agriculture
critic Jack Riddell, .who
asked for an update on
• statistics on foreign
ownership of farmland in
Southwestern Ontario. He
asked how the statistics
were gathered and, said
the information he has
been getting from his
area is that foreign in-
terests are buying up
- large tracts -of land.
The amount 'of foreign
ownership in Kent County
has declined from 197.6 to
1978, said Newnan, and
while the acreage under
foreign ownership has
increased in Huron, 'it's
less than half of one
percent of all the land in
Huron County.'!
Newman said the in-
,
formation `was gathered
by checking the farm tax
reduction rolls for
resident addresses
outside the country, and
registry offices for
transfers, numbered
companies and part-
nerships. Contact was
also made with the
ministry's regional
agricultural represen-
tatives, he said.
Outside the legislature, •
Newman said that of the
half -million acres in Kent
County, 6,045 acres were
In foreign hands in 1976
and that has dropped to
4,483. in 1978. He said be
didn't know the reasons
for the drop in foreign
ownership.
In Huron County, the
acreage owned by
foreigners in 1976 was
2,423 and in 1978 was 3,989
out of a total acreage, of
About 841,000.
• In .Huron Township in
Bruce County, Newman
said' his ministry found
that -three part elS-01 land
totalling 300 acres had
been bought by a West
Gernian. Newman said
his statistics on Huron
Township ,weren't
complete so he didn't
know when the sale of
that land occurred.
Newman added that the
statistics on foreign
ownership are based 'on
owners who have foreign
addresses. He said a few
of , those owners may
actually be Canadians,
living abroad.
Newman said his
ministry • couldn't sub-
stantiate Riddell's
statement, made earlier'
this year, that -foreign
investors were .putting
millions of dollars in
Huron banks to, buy
farmland.
The minister said. the '
land that is being pur-
chased • in Huron County
seems to be going at the -
average price of about
$1,100 an acre, so it
shouldn't be distorting .,
the land market in the
area. •
F'orei1gn buyers would
have to pay an additional
20 percent in land tran-
sfer tax, he said, and that
is -the reason the tax is in
place.
were especially popular with the vendors themselves. Judy aho sold quilted pillows she
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ocal trustee
angry over book
BY JEW. SEDDON
The Huron County board'of education
stood its ground Monday afternoon telling
the Concerned'Citizen's Group of Huron
County English literature texts had been
approved according to board policy and
that was that.
In a clash with about 1,5 members oldie
group trustees defended board procedures
used to approve a list of 22 English books
and told the patents no changes would be
made to the list. •
• Not only did the board refuse to alter its
decision on the books it told the group.
nothing could be gained by sitting down to
discuss the controversy and unanimously -
chose not to have a special meeting with
the group,
The board's approval of thelist_ of books
was sandwiched between a brief presented
y ** the citizen's group expressing • its
dissatisfaction' of the board's handling of
t issue and IS minute question period
sifter the board meeting. The presentation
of the brief went smoothly but the question
period turned into an angry exchange
between parents and trustees.
The brief, presented by Burt Grekdanus,
told the'board the parents. were Concerned
with the morals and ethics in the school
system. The parents felt little had been
done about complaints made to the board
arid that the new board policy used to
approve textbooks shifted responsibility.
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The brief was presented at the outset of
the board session and board chairman John
Elliott -urged any trustees with anything to
say to the concerned group say it. Elliott
reminded the board that it would be voting
•on approval of the texts during the meeting
•and this would be the only opportunity
trustees _would have to discuss the issue
with the parents prior to that vote.
Trustees remained silent. No one asked
Oreidanus to expand on the views of the ,
concerned, parents and one made any
attempt to support or oppose the views of
the parents.
Despite its unified stand in support of its
policy after the meeting some trustees
were unhappy about the manner in which
they were being asked to vote on the
textbooks. When it came time to votenn
the novels some trusteesfelt the board_had
not had enough time to check out the
hovels.
Wingham trustee Bert Morin told the
board trustees had had ample time to sit
down with teachers and review the books
but added that because trdstees had not
understood the policy the Matter could be
tabled until the board's August meeting.
Goderich trustee Dorothy Wallace said
she could stipport a motion to table the
books if trustees would give her a guar,
antee they would read all the books,
anyone thinks going to sit dOwn •
and read 22 books between now and next
month you can forget it," said separate
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• buns aintSid Duggan sold coffee cake, bread and cinnamon loaves. squares
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