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Battle lines over corridor between council hydro Battle line for the dispute between Ontario Hydro and Halton Hills council began to take shape at planning board hut week as the board agreed to treat the Ontario Hydro request tor corrldora through the municipality aa two Issues then ravened Its decision and wiped out any of previous comments A brief presentation by John Schneider vicechairman of Interested Citizens Group ICG convinced board members that they had new information of sufficient aajil to m not o a bat also with their requ that records original decision be wiped clean so that they could not be used at an Ontario Municipal Board hearing at some future date Mr Schneider said an engineer loaned to the group by the ministry of environment to go over Hydro plans early In September discovered that their plana called for not Just two corridors as Hydro Is currently requesting but a total of seven One of the seven could be 11 feet wide he said The engineer also found that although the Bruce to route Is the most viable one up until by 1991 there is a possibility thai a better route will exist he said George HUNTERS GATHERERS Jugs teapots ANDRE Pratt Jugs are fat Jugs But rising Is pleasing Jugs and teapots are like people they come In all shapes sixes and colors Some are beautiful some plain some wonderful some weird Consider Royal Worcester a Aesthetic circa law A male form on one side and female on the other It la a skit on the unpopular Oscar WUde Aesthetic Movem The head removes for tea to pour through a hole In the tight hand Now you have to admit this t everyone a cup of tea pardon the pun but it is a real collector a The early teapots in the seventeenth century when tea was something like twenty dollars a pound came In packing cases from China with the raw material Made in they were small red and now extremely rare By mid century Meissen had discovered the formula for hard paste porcelain the price of tea had dropped somewhat and the middle classes began having their own tea ceremonies using the new Leeds cream ware The tax on tea however was still far too high for the working man to Indulge himself and indeed the colonists In America objected so much to It that in 1773 the Boston Tea party sparked off the revolution Fine Staffordshire stoneware sal glare pots had two mala types of handles by which they can be Identified crabstock and round Sometimes white th moulded decoration they were more often brilliantly enamelled and the ahell was a favourite motif The first quarter of the nineteenth century saw a big drop in tea prices coinciding with the spread of tea planting from China to India and Darjeellng and Pakistan which nowadays produce over million pounds of lea a year Pots became bigger and more oval In shape Swansea Davenport and all produced pots of superb quality some with printed patterns some still using enamels to decorate and the honey gold which used in the eighteenth century was replaced by mercuric oxide gliding This produces a bright gold and one way of tracing fake piece for the earlier gold became brownish with wear and did not sustain the brightness Here In Canada St John Stone Chlnaware Company of Quebec Its own lea ware Pols In the typical St John blue with white applied sprigs can be found especially around Montreal But far the average collector a teapot a teapot is a teapot and if it is pretty or whimsical or fun look at put up a shelf and start collecting Sooner or later it will probably be worth your while To be continued next week For collectors recommended reading is Henry Sandon s book of 162 illustrations Coffee Pots And Tea Pots Publishing Co New York recommended that the board a original decision to split the issue of Hydro corridors into two parts and oppose them both be reclnded and all records erased He pointed out that com concerning the inevitability of the east west corridor going through might be interpreted by Hydro as that the board did not the east west corridor In the original recom the board spill Hydros request for ways for high voltage ran amission corrldora through the municipality Into two parts They opposed the eastwest corridor and recommended that the minister of housing be informed of their opposition They alio asked that their objections be sent to the along with a request for a public hearing They asked that hearings held be held In Hills The second recommendation opposing ihe north south corridor pending Ihe carrying out of an independent study was to be sent to Housing Minister John Rhodes and requested that the OMB carry out public hearings on the matter in Halton Hills In urging the board to split opposition Into two parts chairman Roy Booth pointed out that trying to force the to deal with the ap plication as one might result In Mr Rhodes Issuing an order council that would over ride all objections from council and allow the corridor If the were split he said Rhodes could allow the east west corridor but leave council time to fight the north south corridor Mayor Tom Hill told the board that he taw no point in splitting the Issue Were fighting a losing battle he said We allowed Hydro a way down by Avenue years ago we par opposed to it Then time titer they another one up on the Eighth Line that we really t want but we hadn a leg to stand on to fight them because we had allowed the first one If they get one they get them both Mallby called Ihe type of democracy shown by the government in connection with Hydro a bloody farce They ve spent more and money opposing the study than It would take to fund studies he said We ve been a bulwark for those fighting Hydro and we must continue to support them The issue of hydro corrldora appeared at Halton reglonl planning committee earlier in afternoon a result of a request by Hydro that the committee hear a presentation on their behalf from Dan and Alec Collins The request was turned down because the Issue was scheduled to come up at Halton Hills planning board that night and the region did not want to with It until the affected munlcpality had a chance to make a decision on matter Ontario Hydro has proposed two kV transmission corridors which they want to run through the town The east west route would cross the former township of from to Milton transmission station The north south route would run from Milton transmission station through and connect with a line coming south from the Bruce generating station Land use categories of the operative official Stan and Hills ytaws do not per mil high voltrge transmission corridors As a result Ontario Hydro has filed an application to amend both the bylaw and the official plan The OMB will hold a hearing in Hills municipal office on Oct Support for fCG October has been set as the date for Ontario Municipal Board hearings In an application by Housing Minister John Rhodes on behalf of Ontario Hydro that the official plan of Halton Hills be amended to permit con struction operation and maintenance of high voltage transmission lines running northsouth and eastwest through the town At Monday s meeting council decided to ask that the solicitor and planner attend all OMB hearings on the matter despite Coun Peter s assertion that the legal bill will be very high If the hearings are extensive We can t afford a resolution like that said Training review has suggested that may be nec essary to curtail ihe inservice training program for Regional Police A survey of attendance at the programs is being conduc ted and the results should be made known shortly Chief eels that budgetary reasons are sufficiently to require priority consld The training programs Inc ludo such subjects as Use of Force Canadian Auto Theft Bureau Search and Seizure and Crime Prevention Some programs of prime importance such as metric conversion would be kept going Chief said HEY KIDS DUE TO THE CANCELLATION OF THE GEORGETOWN FALL FAIR WE WERE UNABLE TO RECEIVE THE JOHNSON CARNEY GIANTS THAT YOU COLOURED Please bring your coloured Johnson Carney Giant to our office at 232 Guelph St Georgetown or mail it to us if you wish MAKE SURE WE HAVE YOUR GIANT BY OCT 12 AND WE WILL AN NOUNCE THE WINNERS IN THE HERALD OF OCT 1977 CARNEY REALTOR GEORGETOWN 8775261 THE HERALD Wednesday Octaber HIT Study of French studies The separate school board Is examining Its French program for students studying French as a second language A subcommittee of the board of education made up of teachers principals trustees and ratepayers Is to study the present program will be considering among other things expanding thi Urn from daily to 9 and expanding the program Students In programs mart per cent of their French Also a topic for ill be the introducing at French Instruction in and BOOK SHOP OPENS Leslie Hale examines cards on the rack in ago They plan to alternate at working In the a Christian book store which she coowns with store The store which la located In The Old Nowell This is their first business Bank building has a wide selection 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