Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 28 Feb 1964, p. 32

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to substantial industrial expansion in 19 Ed Mayclty industrial commissioner predicts Mr May said he was con vinced that employment in ex isting industries would increase by approximately 20 per cent This would produce about 700 new Jobs and bring the labor force in plants to nearly 31000 men and women iwenly per cent has been the rate oi increase during the past two years it is figure that has remained tairly constant despite slowdown in the num her of new industries Despite this slowdown Barrie has not fared badly in com parison with other municipalities Ltd in Ontario Mr May sold Four small plants were added to the citys industrial complex in 1063 with total employment oi 50 The business of these firms is developing and within year or two their combined payrolls would be well over 100 At the moment the lndustrial Commission is negotiating to bring In four or five new in dustries The largest would employ the men at the start Ssucb negotiations must becan lied on in strictest confidence Mr May said Competition for new capital today is terriilc Disquietlng to the Barriecom mission is the pull of industry to metropolitan Toronto which includes Hamilton and Oshawa Private investors in Toronto have had the inside track with potential industries in re cent years One of the major Inclors is the price of land Un der the Industrial Sites Act or municipality in Ontario can ol ler land at less than post And such costs include services and as sewers and water BARGAIN PROPERTY The private investor however can circumvent this regulation in Toronto suh dividers with large tracts of land have otter ed industrialists property at one dollar an ac sometimes dollar for an entire site Why such generosityl Simply because the city will release sublt dividers land for homebuilding purposes it the owners set aside some of their land for industry The city says industrial land is profitable from tax stand point and that residential prop erty is an expense to the corn munity The Industrial Commis sion hopes to take leaf from the book of the Toronto inva tors There is move to in ierest real estate men build ers and other types at investors in plan to provide lowcost industrial land However the coat of land is only one iacior in enticing new industries The commission has set forth list or 61 questions termed teeters influencing plant location These include production materials marketing tianspurtatloriand dist on NWMP on lint One lor Tales Dempster one of the tew surviving members of the old Northwest Mounted Police is not the man to see it youre looking lor tates oi dartingdo the North gt It was all just annual just says the ownerold rmer inspector whose name graces road that runs from Flat Creek to Eagle Plain in the Yulron But what he calls routine might be high adventurehintie era It included tor example risky job of finding famous oat Northwest Mounted tilt Inspector nloflttllmtl to not labor utilities and services and llnancing facilities One of the greatest encoun agemcnts to investment is axis ting industries Mr May said The industrial climate in Harris is healthy Expansion has come steadilysometlmes spectaCuler iv to 1063 for example plant expansions ranging from few hundred to 1000 to 20000 square feet were carried out at cost in excess of $3000000 EXPANSIONS Among the lirms which car ried out malor expansions were Mansileid Rubber West Bend oi Canada Ltd Barrie Tanning Moldex Limited DeVIlbiss Canada Ltd and Piasiomer noteabls development in the past year or two has been the increase in export business Through trade missions num bar at Barrie time are keeping ln touch with markets in all parts of the world Lulirin Rule has gone after business in Eur opa and Australia Hill of Canada Ltd and Universal Cooler Limited bavu wooed the rdrlgerator and ireezer mark ets in Britain and the European confluent Millions dollars in new business is coming to Bar ria through such eilorts Mr May described the pres eat as consolidation period tor industry in Barrie Event unity he hopes to sea provin clai legislation which would en courage decentralization ol in dustry in Ontario the government would have to act in concrete way perhaps And Simmons Cop KEEP 7ur wrrrl rue insist Since 18 In the Iorm ol remission of some corporation taxes and land services If something is not done the metropolitan area will continue to attract from to to so per cent of new industries And this is an inordinath heavy share During the past year Barrie lost an industry to Richmond Hill The firm would have built an initial plant with Liam square feet of floor space The determining Inctor was econom ic the neamess to the main market The small city and town must have more than desirato oiier Mr May indicated The govern ment must tip the scales in ta vor oi smaller communities It Ontario is to eoioy wldespreod prosperity aalv Shamans Have Served the People OI Barrie beforeaeroplanasi beforef paVelnentsi before cars someone not COMPLETE SELECTION OF Quality Cow FinestsorlswesjranclDresses For Jackets and Steins tira young local mtulciara it was tin and challenge chain which ioua winners at recent years are allowed to play optimumtau an eight in and through aetectlonathat might have been drawn iron the Einstein oi rofeslionaii symphony orchestra Elmsam group malt gs an en warmed up veteran troopera From taro We as eorgo through their lineal hollr Alter awarding third place to Sudbury andyucoud to Ottawa band recently return ed trom European touran lessor MacKciiar paused to corn ment in blartudent days he said he had once listenodvto won dertui high school band in this some auditorium its playing had something to do with influencing him to choose music education as career it now gave bbn great pleasure to award winning mark or so to June reborn and Its pre sent bend based on the tone museum on prisch vetcdhand coeds worth Idivll in CONSTRUCTION LIMITED Serving larrii For Admeooalrlea Mandi memo to hearted IXCAVAIING caaoluo expressiven musicianship to vsaas or assure Shown here is picture of our show room at 09 Maple AveWe are proud of the fact thatwo are growing with Iiarrie and look forward tottre future yaltdLnIso look forward to serving the to come people of Barrierfor many snore years nn sanitation srpetCleaning erv uty to your on THESE ARE THEPIEOPLnI THAT WORK IN TIiEHOUSe wé

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