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- wr a oo ATTACK GOODWILL VISIT Rev. Wilfrid Desrosiers looks at notes while telling repor- ters a Quebec government proposal to establish cultural relations with Louisiana through a State delegation now in Quebec is "a disgrace" because the delegation "does i | University. not represent the people of Louisiana but only part of it." Father Desrosiers is a native of Quebec and has worked among Negro communities in Louisiana for 10 years. --(CP Wirephoto) Land Ownership Issue At By MARTIN TAYLOR Canadian Press Staff Writer VANCOUVER (CV)--No one can "own" a piece of land in Canada. This ancient legal technicality has been given, a real modern meaning which three provinces| have submitted to close re-| examination this year. It is| seen in the law of expropri-| Stake Methods Get Blame For Famine HONG KONG (Reuters)--A bad system, rather than bad weather, is to blame for Com- munist China's agricultural shortages which have necessi- tated big grain deals with Can- ada and Australia, says Profes- sor Stuart Kirby, head of the de- partment of economics and po- litical science at Hong Kong The professor believes the Chinese Communist party is facing today an acute political as well as a severe economic crisis. "Agriculture has always been the weak point of modern com- munism," he declares, citing lack of personal incentive in the system as perhaps the most im- portant factor in China's present plight. Kirby, one of Hong Kong's au- thorities on Chinese affairs, has analysed the Peking regime's repeated claims in the last three years that bad weather, or "na- tural calamities' as they say, has caused repeated crop fail ures. Writing in Current Scene, a magazine published by the United States consulate in Hong Kong, he says the party plan- ners have neither overhauled nor recast their programs to improve their country's de- fences against its climate. But they have relaxed their basic organization in the coun- try with each successive emer- gency, allowing the peasants more individual interest, slightly larger plots of land for their own use and a little more freedom to grow sidelines. COMMUNES FADING The commune system, as or- iginally planned, has been modi-| fied and decentralized practi-| cally out of existence, the pro-| fessor says, and "free markets" | for trading in specified com- modities are allowed in some places. The Communists have found that the only effective way to increase production is to repeal tial projects to make prodigious profits at public expense. | The highways department [cites the case of a piece of {land purchased in 1955 for $143,- 000 and expropriated the follow- ing year for the Deas Island and the United States border. WIDE DISCREPANCY An arbitration board under throughway between Vancouver calling that Chinese dynasties | | one aspect after another of rural communism, and progressively {to restore a little of "capitalist" | self-interest. | Ths professor sees this, coup-| |led with the malnutrition of the | {masses, as the source of a poli-| tical threat to the regime, re-| for centuries basically have | risen and fallen on agrarian dif-| ficulties and the rural rebellions] which grew out of them. ation under which thousands of the Highways Act fixed com- a are oh pensation at $442,000, after gov- hiv: 4 Jouk of thew lana a ernment appraisers had set the The traditional attitude of the) |Chinese to natural disasters and massive array of statutes and a confusing body of case law, involve the basic rights of the individual in the modern "'prop- erty-owning democracy." Investigation in Alberta has| resulted in a new Expropri-| ation Procedure Act which] came into effect recently and! covers all cases of compulsory| purchase of homes, farms and business premises by the prov- ince, municipalities, utilities |unrest is that the regime in Siguie At between $172,000 and) wer has "lost the mandate of | $280,000, and the claimant's ap- praisers had estimated the| value at more than $535,000. Municipal spokesmen cite a Vancouver case in which a man purchased a site for a motel at $100,000 and claimed $2,000,- 000 when the land was required by the city for a freeway soon| afterwards. An arbitration] board fixed compensation at| $440,000. There appeared to be general and other public bodies. _|agreement among witnesses In Ontario a select com-| mittee under Highways Minister |t0a¢ the present system of ar- |bitration boards for compensa- F. M. Cass is making a survey yon ccocomany is impractical and costly. There is division of opinion on whether they should be replaced by judges, a per- manent board or a panel of experts. There appears also to be| agreement that persons whose| land is to be expropriated] should receive adequate ad-| {vance notice, something which |is not always provided for at present. | "TRIAL OF NECESSITY" But a wide area of disagree- ment has been opened by the! {suggestion that expropriating| (bodies submit a "trial of nec-| essity." | This proposal, adopted in! part in the new Alberta statute, | would allow a man whose land| is to be expropriated to ques-| tion the need which the ex- propriating body claims to have| for it. He could put forward of expropriation procedures in Canada and abroad while con- sidering a proposed Land Com- pensation Act. COMMISSION INQUIRY British Columbia is holding| the most formal inquiry into the subject by a royal commis- sion which held hearings in July and August and then ad- journed until mid-October. The question is an especially topical one in B.C. because of the imminence of expropriation of vast tracts of land which will be ded for the Columbia and Peace River hydro-electric pro- jects. A witness before the B.C. commission said that people who buy land today should realize that they take it with the risk that it may later be needed by the community, If the land is expropriated they should expect no compensation above actual market value. This view gives new sub- |alternative proposals for carry-| [ing out the project concerned. | | In Alberta it now will be pos-| heaven" and is about to fall. | On the mainland, Kirby con-| tends, while no access or inspec-| tion was possible to outsiders, | official reports suggested crop| losses of 30 per cent in some cases, and an over-all average of 15 to 20 per cent. { It seems, he says, that the Communists have exaggerated | the adverse effect of the weather and the "belief gener-| ally in the East Asian area, out-| side the Communist-ruled main- | land," is that at least half--15 per cent or more--of the agri-| cultural shortfall is due to their system. Weather Ships Get New Role VANCOUVER (CP) -- Can- ada's weather ships in the Pa-| cific Ocean have been given a| new role--keeping their eyes| and electronic ears peeled for aircraft in distress. | The weather ship Stonetown| which alternates every six | weeks with the St. Catharines | on Pacific station "Papa" re-| cently demonstrated how her | crews and. electronic devices can help a plane which must! ditch at sea. ! The weather ship rescue crews are trained for fast! action. After the plane has "homed" on the ship's non-di-| rectional beacon and ditched] nearby, the lifeboat men have about six minutes to reach the] stance to the common law/sible for such hearings to be| : ig theory that land is incapable of held in the case of expropri.| 1%pned aircraft before it sinks. ownership. It can only be "held ation by municipalities and pub-| iq eri rier ships also can of the Crown" and those who|lic utilities. {aid crippled planes by laying a hold it are "tenants in fee! Commission counsel Nathan 3a lane with flares, floats id simple." ? |T. Nemetz and Ronald Bray | ye markers for a ditching res- Other witnesses have asserted that compensatio: i ated property shou generous and should 'ake into consideration the value to the claimant. They say frustration of the claimant's special plans for the land should be com- pensated also. Both sides appeal to demo- cratic principles: one speaks of the importance of the general good, the other of respect for the individual. TWO-WAY CRITICISM The commission, presided over by Hon. J. V. Clyne, for- mer B.C. Supreme Court judge and now chairman of the prov- ince's leading forest industry concern, has heard as much criticism of the existing law from expropriating bodies as from prospective victims of ex- propriation, The B.C. Federation of Agri- culture protested against pro- visions permitting public au- thorities to enter private land without consent or notice and in some cases to take land with- out compensation. On the other hand, municipal-| ities and the highways depart- {are obtaining information from {several states of the United |States where the "trial of nec- lessity" is a general require- {ment before exercise of the main" ovr an individual's | Many authorities suggest that {this procedure offers the best {security for individual rights in ian area in which the common {good must ultimately prevail. | Hobby Grows With Talent | TIMMINS, Ont. (CP)--When Mrs. Catherine Hindson's two {children were four and two {years old she began studying music as a hobby. Now her boys are 18 and 16 and the talented |singer is instructing during {the summer at the Porcupine {School of Music here. | The Hamilton instructor is to |begin teaching this fall in Tor- {onto at the Brody New School {of Music and Dancing under Weldon Kilburn, noted teacher, and head of the school's vocal faculty. Mrs. Hindson attended Me- |cue operation. | | The new rescue duty broadens! {the scope of B.C. rescue opera- tions and gives the weather | i f {ship a new, additional role to {that of reporting data from the | | "weather cradle" of the Paci-| {fic 800 miles off Vancouver Is- land, where storms sometimes send the ships reeling for days, smashing lifeboats and other! gear and carrying away every-| thing that isn't lashed down. | Most of the ships coming in| off station go into drydock for inspection and repairs, OLD AND YOUNG LONDON (CP)--Two screen! veterans, Maurice Chevalier and| George Sanders, team up with 15-year-old Hayley Mills to play leading roles in Walt Disney's production of Jules Verne's book The Castaways, shortly to be filmed at Pinewood Studios. Then came her serious interest in music. Later she became a teacher in the Reginald Bed-| ord Studio, Hamilton, f Mrs. Hindson has sung on a| CBC radio program as well as| appearing in Saskatchewan and Quebec. 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