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Some V8's, suite o cylinder, some CHEVS, and 901110 FORDS ses•wwwwsoysooNo Brussels Motors RP Service Station Amoomosainow ' Phone $174113 • VANTON NEWS-pEPORP, THURSDAY MARCH 117 4„-7 Hullett Central news Marriage should be viewed in law as an economic partner- ship in which both husband and wife have equal shares, This is a radical departure from existing principles as recommended by the Law Reform Commission in the massive report that was tabled in the Legislature this week, The proposal if acted upon, by the Legislature would allow Ontario wives to share in family assets acquired during a marriage, upon termination of the marriage. The marital home as well as joint bank ac- counts would be considered joint property of both spouses, 299 Legislative recommen- dations are designed to move Ontario Law regarding illegimate children, family property and family courts out of the 18th and 19th centuries and into the 20th century. The report urges the abolition of all legislative discrimination between children born in and outside marriage. It suggests a new Court Official called a Law Guardian, be appointed to each Family Court to act only in the interest of the child in any proceeding affecting his up- bringing. The Commission also suggests that a unified Family Court should be established to deal with all family law mat- ters. The Commission suggests that the separate Family Court be manned by two groups of judges, one appointed by the Federal Government and the other by the Provincial Govern- ment. • Attached to the Court hould be the assurance of dequate family court support ervices, such as family coun- elling, conciliation and ssessment branches and pecialized probation services. The main theme of NDP eader, Stephen Lewis' reply, n the Legislature to the Speech rom the Throne was inflation. r. Lewis produced some star- l ing figures to back up his laim that there has been an nbelievable increase in the oat of housing in Ontario. ousing costs in Toronto alone ave risen 56 per cent since' 1971 and similar increases were also seen in other centres such as Hamilton, London and Kitchener. Mr. Lewis also charged that an average price rise of 55 per cent has been experienced since 1971 on such items as milk, butter, eggs, bacon, steak, bread, vegetable soup, canned corn and potatoes. Food CoM- pany profits are well up and Mr. Lewis condemned the irecetield, Oat. Government for letting the Corn porations of Ontario get away with murder, Although the Ontario Cover, nrnent contends that Ottawa bears prime responsibility for restraining inflation, Mr. Lewis maintains that it is first and foremost a provincial respqn, sibility. To cut /loosing costs Mr, Lewis proposed a massive public acq-ursition of land for • hoaeing adjacent to the 20 major urban centres in Ontario. The Tax Credit system should be used to hold mortgage in- terest rate to 6 per cent and a Capital Gains Tax of 75 per cent levied on speculative profits from land and housing. The Leader of the Liberal Party, Robert Nixon, also at- tacked the Government for having no policy to control spiralling land and housing costs. He indicated that the average price of all houses sold in Ontario rose by 26 per cent between 1970 and 1973. The problem is most acute in Metropolitan Toronto where the cost of shelter rose by ap- proximately $1,000 per month on the average house. _The housing cost increase was about four times as much as the rise in the cost of living and almost twice as much as food price increases in 1973. As a result of the influence that housing prices in Toronto is having throughout Ontario prospective land buyers and land speculatOrs are searching farther and farther afield. Land prices all over Ontario started to rise about 18 months ago because of pressures in the Toronto Real Estate market. The primary cause as the On- tario Economic Council repor- ted last year is the scarcity of developed land. The demand for land far exceeds the supply and the shortages have been heightened by competition for available sites between foreign and domestic capital. The ,result is artificially high land cost which is eventually passed on to land buyers. German, Swiss, American, Japanese and British investors have all been attracted to On- tario's bland property 'Market and their demand for real estate has resulted in inflated housing prices for Canadians. Mr. Nixon indicated that foreign firms have made sub- stantial purchases of land in various parts of the Province. The Swiss owned firm of Fidinam Limited, for example controls a large tract of land in Norfolk County near the Nan- ticoke generating project. Mr. Nixon charged that the amount of foreign owned land in central Toronto, alone is staggering and he went' on to give several examples. Such ex- tensive foreign participation in the Ontario land market not only infringes on our natural heritage but also contributes to higher shelter costs for the residents of this Province. This type of foreign investment does not create jobs or advance' technology, It benefits only the investors. According to Mr. Nixon, the Provincial Govern- ment must act properly to restrict future land purchases to residents of Canada and Canadian owned corporations or an even greater influx of foreign money will further in- flate Ontario's land prices. Newly enriched Middle Eastern Countries are already rumoured to be buying land in Ontario. Relaxed Japanese regulations for investors in foreign land have been in effect for only a few years. The recent devaluation of the Canadian dollar in relation to European and Japanese currencies is also attracting foreign investment to Ontario's real estate market which because its value is rising so fast is a better invest- merit than gold. Mr, Nixon went on to say that restrictions on foreign land ownership will ease the upward pressure on land prices somewhat but tough 'measures are also required to stop land speculation by Canadians. Just recently the newly elected President of the Ontario Real Estate Association estimated that 30 per cent of all land transactions in Ontario involve speculators. Mr. Nixon implied that there isn't a community in southern Ontario that does not have land •speculation going on around it. Until the Province makes an announcement about where the development will go, the speculation will continue, In the past weeks it's gotten worse. There has never been as much speculative money 'around as there is and never as much uninformed speculation. Every little town is being bought up. The Government must act immediately says Mr. Nixon to bring this intolerable situation under control. He suggested that a steep rate of tax to windfall gains should be applied to remove the incentive to speculate in land. This tax should apply to profits from most sales of raw land and houses which are not occupied by the owner but should not apply to profits from the sale of a principal residence, or to profits from the sale of an owner-occupied family farm. In 'other words, the tax should be structured in such a , way as to apply to speculators only without penalizing other land owners. Although steps to control Ontario's land costs are the most urgent priority accor- ding to Mr. Nixon, action is also required to reduce residen- tial construction costs in On- tario. The 7 per cent sales tax on building materials should be removed 'or)•offset- by equivalent grants 'to purthasea of new homes. The Federal Govern- ment should be urged to remove or provide similar off- setting grants for its 12 per cent sales tax. Inexpensive housing forms including mobile and fac- tory produced homes must be encouraged, said Mr. Nixon. Mr. Nixon summarized his remarks by saying that strong action including restrictions on foreign ownership of land, steep taxes on speculative land profits, a government run land servicing program and steps to reduce residential construction costs are urgently required in order to avoid further house price increases. Education Minister Thomas Wells intorduced a Bill to force the teachers of York County back to work and send pupil- teacher ratios and all other items in dispute to sompulsory arbitration. Prior to the intor- duction of the Bill a majority of York County school trustees adamantly refused to negotiate the ratio claiming it as a management right. Education Minister Wells told the Legislature that he was ready to withdraw the Bill at a moment's notice if an agreement was reached and ratified by both parties and that they approach him while the Bill was being debated in the Legislature, The Bill received third and final reading in the Legislature about two ‘11111111111111110 hours after the teachers had made their decision'to return to the classrooms objecting to ar- bitration or any kind of legislative settlement as: a satisfactory solution of 'the problems in the Education system but voting• in favour; of returning to the class 'as responsible people who respect the laws of the land. Opposition Members debated the Bill at some length stressing the fact that Mr. Wells could have ended the strike weeks ago by insisting that both parties get back? to the table and bargain in good faith. Failing this the Liberal Party believed that by establishing a Trusteeship' in York County the Minister of Education could bring the con- tract negotiation to a proMpt conclusion in a much more equitable manner. A report tabled in the Legislature this week contained 170 recommendations that would work extensive chanies in the course of policing for the future, A drastic reduction;:, in the number of police force*, in Ontario has been recommended by a Task Force as li,t itneanS: of averting cost crisis. The T.tisk Force on policing ,feUnd two potential threats to fhp quality of police work and 'One of ,.its suggested solutions is eliminating more than 100 for- ces to make more efficient use of blue uniformed manpower. The report recommends that the number of operating fortes be cut from the present level:of_ 179 to between 30 and 40. It would leave 21 city and :10 regional police forces. In ad- dition there would be 29 agreement areas in the south and 10 in the north areas, where through agreement policing would be handled by the OPP or large neighbouring force. The policing bill in On- tario in 1972 was $229.3 million and had average an an- nual rate of increase better than' 16 per cent, The_ cost is outstripping the Municipalify's ability to pay to the poiat where-• in six years spending cler11 40P; NYP014 mor e than the .cash avaitableo the report said. Ontario is willing to see the price of Western Canadian' crude oil rise to $6 a barrel but only if it is going to stay there for at least two years. Energy Minister Darcy McKeough said he does not want a price rise on April 1st, the date the current Federal freeze is scheduled to expire to be just the first step up the ladder to $7 then $8 and on up to whatever the world's monopoly price might be. The Federal Government has frozen, the price of Western crude at $4 a barrel until March 31st. Mr. Mckeough strongly attacked the desire 'of the producing provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan 'to raise the price to the world level of about $10.50 a barrel. The* Energy Minister said an increase to $6 would add ap- proximately 6 cents a gallon to the cost of heating oil and gasoline in Ontario. A jump'to $10.50 a barrel would add almost 20 cents a gallon. This "flies in the face of national in- terest," McKeough said. The net impact on Ontario of a move to $6 crude would be :to add cost of $350 million a year to people of the province. Alberta's net benefit would be $750 million, Field Trip. Spring is coming qUiPkbri and one of the first indications is that the, maple syrup bushes are in production once again. 'Many of the pupils of Hullett Central School got a chance this week to see first hand everything that goes on in the 'Making of maple syrup, from tapping the trees to boiling the sap. On Tuesday, March 12, the grade 1 and 2 pupils that are in Mrs. Livermore's and Mrs, Smith's reading classes, and Miss Roney's; Grade 3 class went by bus to the bush of Mr. ,Olen McGregor, near Brucefield, and Mr. Talbot's Grade 4 chin went to the same -bash on Wednesday. On Thur- sday, both kindergarten classes, accompanied by their teacher Miss Adams travelled to McClinchey's bush, near Auburn. All classes found these excur- sions very interesting and infor- mative. Grade 6 Assembly On Thursday, March 14, Mr. Jamieson's Grade 6 class Presented a St, Patrick's Day assembly. The program opened with a play about the coming of spring called "St. Patrick's Day Parade". NeXt a play in rhyme called "Jon'h Helpers" was presented, about preserving our Clinton II, 4-H The third meeting of the "Ugly Ducklings" was held on March 11 at 7:30 at Mrs. Tyn- dall's. The meeting was opened with the pledge, followed by the roll call. Wendy Tyndall, secretary, read the minutes for the last meeting and they were signed by the president. We discussed where to have our next meeting, which is at Mrs. Tyndall's. The nieetirig was then turned over to Mrs. Tyndall who discussed --`good 'storage". _We piiinted"on•t several good * , anti on vithere to put purses, scarves, shoes, and winter clothes. We were 'then served refresh- ments and the meeting was ad- journed.----by Brenda Hummel Brucefield 4-H The fourth meeting of the Cuver Girls was held at Mrs. George ,Cantelon's on Monday, March 18. natural resources, . Karen Durnin then played a piano SOW called "The candy Man", A humorous play called "Where's Timothy" followed, and the assembly ended with the whole class singing three songs-"The Galway Piper", "Spring Song", and "St Patrick's Day". The last song was accompanied by a dance, performed by Judy Carter, Robert flunking, Marie Ann Hellinga and Mervin Taylor. Miss Wittie, on behalf of everyone present, thanked the grade 6 class for a very en- joyable assembly, During this assembly, a special presentation was made to each of the junior and senior public speaking winners. Receiving awards were Ann Snell, Julie Snell, Judy Jewitt, Judy Carter, Christine Carter and Karen Durnin, Skating Party On Thursday, March 14, the pupils of Hullett Central School including both kin- dergarten classes went on a skating party to the Clinton Arena, where they were taken by bus. Students as well as the teachers had a good time skating along with getting a great deal of exercise. So far this year Hullett Cen- tral has had two skating par- ties. Thank-you to all the people who made it possible. In the absence of President Linda 'Coleman, Kim Tomkins took the chair. Karen Whit- more was floating secretary and press reporter for this meeting. Meeting three and four sub- ject matter had been combined at meeting three, so meeting four was spent in cutting out and sewing our special project which consists of tote bags or laundry bags. Our next meeting will be held on Monday, March 25 when Mrs. Harvey Holland will demonstrate hair styling to us. At the following meeting, Mrs. Jim'Ncitt Jr. will speak on skin care. langkart, y,Voig are Co., Chartered .Acouritants 268 Main St,, Exeter ARTHUR W. READ Resident Partner 23S.9120 41 Now needs less water! AAtrex Liquid, easiest to measure, mix and keep in suspension, gives most uniform application, covers more area with every tankful. You now spray twice as many acres pre-emergent per tankful with AAtrex Liquid. This means that you now save both time and labour, as well as having the best possible control against annual broadleaf weeds and most grasses. For more information, talk to your AAtrex dealer. 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