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thi okmtorrown hirald april brd 1mb ratepayers meeting continued from page 1 which would consider plants here but are waiting for a more prop tious time to expand he satd to illustrate the difficulty faced to day in promoting industrial loca tlons mr bairstow said he would like too dispel a rumour that delrex land price is high every potential industry wc ve talked to has been offered land at 1000 an acre less than it cost us be said only one firm he knows of had questioned price and had bought unsetviced land in acton which is costing that townl wj u mm 25000 to take service to the lhat win p site he said despite disappointment on the industrial scene delrex has prod uced industrial assessment of 180000 and yearly tax revenue of 8000 since coming to town he said we have reached the point where the present land on which we can build will last until june 1st he continued the town has a perfectly legal right to say no to future building and if it does our only alternative is to move out of town so our building oper ations can continue mr bairstow gave his ideas of what could happen were the land to be released or were the town to refuse further expansion at present if delrex closes operations here he said the company would apply for a reassessment on vacant land and if this reverted to farmland for assessment purposes there could be a yearly tax loss of 20 000 to georgetown in addit ion would provide 147 000 in taxes over the next three years over and above the normal taxes on the houses the first proposal had been submitted by the townrto its audi tor who estimated it could result in a yearly deficit in taxes of 10 per house he said a house asses sed at 4200 or over should be self supporting in taxes and the pres ent average in delrex is 4369 he said wc ve been striving to the best of our ability to get industry and well certainl be doing all we can to minimize the share of the he said in his talk hr bairstow intima ted that georgetown will see the start of construction of a shopping plaza this year the lepage real estate firm ac ting for other interests is negot tating a five million dollar plaza but has encountered some dlfficul tics along the way if this land is released and the page firm is not prepared to move this year we will he said as the question period started mr bairstow was asked if a 3year building period is the only one acceptable to delrex and how school costs will be affected he replied that economically the 582 homes would have to be built in this period and that del rex believes the additional tax rev in subtrade with others who might be affected a rough guess would be 100 people q or era hyde wasnt delrex aware that cloverdale and sun beam subdivisions were in pro gress when the 19m agreement was made and that swanek was promised is 30000 a true esti mate of tax loss if the land revert ed to farm land wasnt the dis posal plant forced by delrex which encouraged the board of health to pressure the town the auditors 10 per house tax loss was not a submission on econo mics but study of a delrex-sub- mltted brief where the company showed a tax profit of several hundred dollars per unit and the auditor a 10 loss isnt the ratio of school children higher in the new subdivisions a there are 26000 taxes paid on presently vacant land and delrex is confident that applica tion for reassessment would duce this to about 6000 the npany has acknowledged that ras perhaps somewhat foolish in settling on the u040 ratio in view of largescale building oper ations in the older part of town as early as the autumn of 1955 the depl of health was warning about sewage overload a survey of 410 delrex homes showed 360 children or a 84 average per house q mr martyn if the three years passes and things don t work out how many more homes will you be asking for then a thats a question that cant be answered cost wise a 2raill business taxes paid on alrex has outs kcn for contracting garnet building pro- i a iw niw vote on lhe acst opined that the type of houses planned there will be no surplus tax mon enue will adequately cover costs j r l w x drop this year doesn look as of a new school the firm is a vol j j uroe builder and must work in a tune period to sell homes at the prices set he said another questioner sid orr if delrec has coat georgetown much money to far at the end of tbe question period mr balrstqw thanked the ratepayers organization for being given an opportunity to speak and said that he would welcome an opportunity at any time to dis cuss the matter publicly a question and answer meet ing is a wellnigh impossible task for a reporter to coger100 and the above article does not pretend to digest the whole content of this portion of the meeting names of questioners appear when the person was known by name to the reporter there were many more questions the answers to which have been covered in various news items others where it was difficult to pinpoint the question and answer the ones selected were ones which we felt were im portant to the question before council ed farm news bkef poultry compete for consumers dollar livestock marketing specialist r k bennett of the canada de partment of agriculture told cattlemen at a joint beef breeds meeting in brandon manitoba re cently that the main problem fac ing tbe beef industry at present is competition from other prod ucts for the consumer s dollar the market is highly competitive he said so the beef producer must set his standards to meet the de mands of the housewife mr bennett pointed out that despite the fact that the ptr cap ita consumption of beef baa in creased over 50 per cent since 1850 the per capita consumption of poultry has stepped up about 64 per ceil and that of turkey meat alone by about 200 per cent this expansion of the market for poultry meats may not have been entirely at the expense of the beef industry be said but never theless is to some extent replac ing beef according to mr bennett it takes approximately 7 pounds of grain to produce a pountt of live beef cattle on the other hand the broiler is now producing a pound of live broiler with less than 3 pounds of feed the result of this shows up in the retail price of broilers and of steaks in the selfservice counter the aver age weekly kill of broilers in the province of ontario is estimated at 600000 assuming an average dressed weight of 2 lbs mr ben net said the weekly tonnage of broilers in ontario is equal to about 2700 beef carcasses this represents almost 45 per cent of the weekly average inspected kill of cattle in ontario greatest truck salesman lance rumble of toronto and durham known as the world s greatest truck salesman who died last week while vacationing in flo rida is remembered by members of the fall board for a speaking en gagement here a few years back at one of their dinners mr rumble manager of gene ral motors toronto truck branch friend of local showman ken mc was a hackney showman and a millan who travelled the show 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there will be a six mill practical j nil tax slice for the disposal plant if howeer delrex is allowed to if the houses are built assessment f proceed with 582 homes and the firm can recover some of its in vestment in land it is prepared to reinvest this in local commercial and industrial ventures he prom led we feel that to continue build ing is the only logical course for ourselves and for the town mr bairstow said every member of the town council has said it is not their desire to cut off building activity our proposal last june was sound i m convinced but it did not meet council s approval so we came up with a second one mr bairstow was referring to an original submission for building houses and a second one now un der discussion by council in which delrex has guaranteed a 6040 ra uo on the released land which monuments designs submitted cemetery lettering earner posts and markers a good display in stock brampton monument works wm c allan prop 68 queen sl west brampton shop phones res gl 10445 gl 1 1613 rep tom nicol phone brampton gl 13962 3 cabs 3 reliable drivers radio equipped glen taxi tr 72432 d ii fhppymum wkui wow not wwr msarjtr i 4uet snowr our osmcx time eunchajtoss msi in ib1 bsllgarbutt will incrtast to thirteen million dollars and this figure can be re duced to four mills he claims who pays if the houses can t be sold asked ian cass if the cant be sold the wiirj not be built was the answer another ratepayer who spoke at some length at last week s council meeting john henley said he i thinks the zoning by law should first be finalized before any build ing occurs i d suggest that you are the last person in this room to ask a ques tion on zoning and i ii liavi it at that to save embarrassment was mr bairstow s reply zoning he said is a separate subject and does not enter the delrex request there arc some 30 building lots vacant on the present released delrexiand other than rl land was the reply to another question ratio is the important point said r c warren president of swanek ratepayers association if georgetown couldn t get in dustry in the boom years how can it be assumed we will get it three years from now another ratepayer tom fergu son remarking that he believes it is taking the plums from the pie by letting houses be built first was answered briefly with that s your opinion what degree of monopoly has delrex on industrial land humphrey martyn delrex has 350 acres there is the dominion seed house pro perty and another tract presently zoned agricultural roughly 150 acrts added to q mr orr i ma be wronfc but i ion t think dilnx strvicid the land didn t the town put in sen ices and arcn t wc going to build an 800 000 disposal plant a you said you may be wrong and you are wc have a million dollar investment in industrial land which hasn t cost the town a nickel so far q why build semtdetached houses here when scarboro and ttobicoke don t allow thtm a you re misinformed they are being built in those munici palitics q won t semidetached homes lower the value of other homes a a matter of opinion and del rex doesnt think so they are attractive houses q mr ferguson what ratio of money have you spent on promot ing industrial land a we spent 15000 on a promotional aim which is circu lating in several countries we have advertised extensively in the financial post and other publica tions q how much industry has come to brampton acton and milton in tbe past few years a as far i can say 3 factories to brampton one to acton and rm unfamiliar with milton q what loss in local employ ment u delrexjirere to mover a thirty eight local residents are employed by tbe firm and s3 w i s chevrolet- 0ldsm0bile dealers now arthur scott motors limited tl guelph strcet