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Prince George, B.C.,   MONDAY, July 9, 1951
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. LUMBER ARRIVES-More than  1,500,000  feet  of Douglas is shown above on the pier at Windmill Point after homoim dcd from  the  S.S   Seawall   which   arrived   in   MontreJf last
ednesday on her ma deni voyage;  The new shiD discharged Sv.
al other million feet of wood at Halifax, St. John's and Quebec
'rince George Will Get 135,000 Base For Seaplanes
j    A $35,000 seaplane landing base at Prince George is to be itablished and money has again been voted at Ottawa for
lis purpose.
I Originally, $25,000 was in the itimates for a seaplane landing" ase on the Fraser River at the kstern outskirts of this city. pen the Korean crisis develop-the Treasury Board at Ot-(iwa reduced appropriations t and left across the coun-and whacked off the appro-riation for the river base. George M. Murray, M.P., Car-boo, stated that 510,000 has een put in the supplementary Btimates of the Public Works Department with which to be-fin the construction of the base bis year.
He said that an additional 25,000 would l>e spent upon the iiiding base.
The development   of  commer-flying in and out of Prince makes the seaplane base necessity, and engineers in the
civil aviation facilities at Prince George.
The seaplane base will be used 'extensively by Central B.C. Airways and other commercial flyers, particularly on the east-west route through Prince George.
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of    Transport    are to see    additional
Iperalors-IWA Start legoiialions Here
International Woodworkers of jmerlca will ask for a base rate � 51.40 per hour and a cost of ""�"I bonus for all interior lum-
get
when    negotiations underway here    tomorrow    be-jreen Northern   Interior    Lumber Association and the I.W.A.
no increase would place the I [Honor on a par with the Coast, gates Mike Sekora, international representative, because cost of �'-~:c i" the Cariboo is approx-10 percent  higher   than
IfW iTCe .else in tne    Province. I oast lumberworkers  receive    a ose rato-.of $r29"V6   and  a   cost 01 living bonus.
. p �esmen for the operators � io negotiations will be R. A. EMahoney of Canadian ManuTact-Associatlon and William son of Vancouver. T ^Presenting the I.W.A. will be '     �'�'�-     International
 ^> first vlce   Presi  Morris,  District secre-
 Hl Mitche11 and In" SeSa Trepresentative Mlke Mil wi , al representatives C nlr \1(1<> Frc(1 Leiberg of owna:r7-*� ^ourcet of Kel-andr u \,/ J/inch of Kamloops J7-H. \\ ebb of Prince George, ty in J:-a,nticipate little difficulties Mr