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B4 The Acton Free Press Wednesday March 2 Bill Ma Halton Land Registrar retires RETIRING REGISTRAR Bill Mattocks was honored by colleagues and staff on his retirement Monday afternoon From left are J P Charlebois president of Halton County Law Association who presented the group s gift of a V set Mr Mattocks regional property registrar Tom Dillon who presented a provincial scroll and supervisor of land registry in Cannon William Bill Land Registrar since retired Kb ft Mart of with Hit regislrj office in Milton Bui lit doesn i phn lo do nothing his retirement Hi stark d i limited lime tin of Consumer Commercial the overseeing land registry ifficcs in the afler his retirement Bill describes the job is staff development and it will include working on courses winch begin ihctnd of March He said he will also be available lo fill in for land registrars in cases of illness Used to a lifetime of hird work Mr is the to a happy lift and I plan lo sit down and vegetate even though he has retired He is also active with legnn work the was dent of Branch ir in 19j1 and is immediate president of ihc Burlington Br and plans to do more gardening When Bill locks started w irking at the Office 1 1SH6 there were only four That space proved too small and in October 1962 the registrv office moved to become the first tenant in s new office building and provincial court house on where it still functions today But this accommodation is also cramped and an addition is being added to the buildmc Next spring the registry office will move into the section of the for its fourth home in 1 The registry work is complex pulling it mild has a twopart one which is i registry the not guaranteed Both svstems are in use in all the registrv offices one point in liT I Mr counted up Ihe legal icls under which his work was governed ind found 1j9 of them He hasn i There be more of them he grinned the changes he notes his cs In honor of his retirement his family hosted a surprise famil dinner in Toronto evening Earlier be and his wife had hosted the registry office staff lo a social evening at his home Burlington where the have lived since Monday when il time for Bill Matlock t put on his coal and head home from the Milton registry office for ihe last lime his departure was delayed when the staff Hilton Law held surprise and the court house building included J President of Ihc Law and the regional property registrar from the Minislrv Thorn is Dillon I iwvers staff and friends Official office are the tremendous speculative land sales and the coming condominiums both of which have further complicated Ihe day lo day Born intngland he recalls Trustee Bert says Board of have any right tell Hills what it must do with Chapel Streel otters thT Georgetown of titles registered each and the income birch exceeded the cost of keeping the office open Bui that is in IWb s boom years of growth were vet lo come Development and construe lion throughout and a resulting increase in registrv 10 He wis lured alone in 1926 to wirk on farms and the rile of is a month He spent time various farms ire to Dunne the dirty Jo s the recession he recalls doing and every work have highlighted thing in the way of work enine Today there ire 19 on the office staff the average dailv registniion is close lo and at times has reached 900 a day and the annual income is over S3 Mr wis named deputy registrar four veurs the Millon office became registrar when Miss Myrtle Field retired at end of IJj1 Growth not without pains however The original registry office that had been in Milton since lasted jusl loo years before the work outgrew il and 19j7 the office moved next door to what is now the lleallh Unit headquarters on King St m Milton to put some bread on the table His first farm job was with The Milk Crate Co Acton which went bankrupt and he later worked for the tannery ind firms He tot a job at Creimery week and when war broke out he was a there at SIS a week During his war service with ihe Cape Breton Highlanders Mr Mattocks was wounded and spent his last months of life in hospital But he enjoyed military work and enlisted in the militia the war spending nine years with the in Hamilton and his way up lo the rank of Sergeant Major Board of officially decided to sell the closed school along with some closed schools ind undeveloped school sites The school can at present accommodate pupils in the ten classrooms Superintendent of Business and Bruce told the board sale of Ihe building Hills has been approved but is sub jeel to town coming up with the Sl purchase price and consummating lhe deal by the end of June Mr said trustees recent questions about town s plans for he school were of line declaring What the town docs with il is none of our business GO train funds cut Philbrook leads fight Board will buy new computer Halton MP Dr Frank Phil brook is leading Liberal backbenchers in a fight to persuade cabinet to change its mind about cutting funds for rapid transit which has halted plans for ex of Georgetown GO train service to full lime Last week Minister Donald announced the government was going back on a 1974 election promise lo commit nearly million to development of rapid transit The decision to cut lhe funds means plans for full lime GO rain for Georgetown would have allowed sion of train service Philbrook who has received national attention because of his stand against the cabinet including an appearance an CTV Canada A program Monday morning says rapid transit development in Canada Is crucial He says an election promise is a promise and should be honored and predicted lhe battle between backbenchers and cabinet could become a big issue says the back one he stated He noted the Liberals have an active caucus which helped persuade the govern to start restraints but he feels that while restraints are extremely important urban transit development is cruciol in a country the size of Canada and besides it saves energy Restraint yes but not for this is quick to point out the movement he started isn a caucus revolt but simply a group of back benchers trying to get an important point across to tootle the be iu lilt 0ne have been shelved Federal change its mind including benchers will use in their money was to be used to cajole and nag light is to speak against and improve Union Station and I think we got the cab- P even vole against track approaches which inelagainsL the caucus on this to the National Transportation Act when it comes before the House Peel Simcoe MP floss Milne who is planning lo seek the Liberal nomination in the new riding of Bramp ton Hills said last 1524 attend gathering of Jehovah Witness The building of a close personal relationship with God requires a diligent study of his Word stated I Payne District Supervisor of Jehovah Witnesses The subject of Mr Payne s discourse was Follow the Way to Life and was at tended by al the Assembly flail of Jehovih s Witnesses this past weekend Mr Payne staled that those who lake lime examine evidence believe that God is about inlervene in man affairs In the Bible he said God ikes clear whit His requirements are for those who will have this I ipproval Saturday morning saw a model School of five sludents speakinf on vanelv of Bible subjects I fell that lhe Assembly Wednesday in Georgetown pressed upon each one a need for endurance in fulfilling the Bible command to preach to Ihcood news of God s Another came money morning a cm when new ones symbolized their dedication to the doing of God s will by water te ember m NATO then it musl spend money lo support it Missed Your Free Press Please Let Us Know Our earners do their best to give fast courteous service but mistakes do happen so if you do not receive your paper or have any complaints regarding delivery please call our office 8532 GUELPH S ONLY SPECIALTY LIGHTING STORE CHATELAINE LIGHTING 240 York Road Guelph Mutti Bright Ideas for all your Lighting Needs EXTENSIVE SELbCTION OF HOUSE FIXTURES Lamps Door Swag La Cab 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will cost considerably more if the board decides to pay for it over five to eight years as has been suggested This com puter however will last eight Trustees went along with the purchase of a new com puter but rejected a proposal which would have moved the board in the direction of mini computers for Halton high schools The administration has been pushing for a new computer because the old one can t handle the increasing amount of administration work like grading tests report cards and class schedules along with increasing load caused by soaring enrolment in com courses Out of a total of high school students 1 are taking computer courses Trustee Bert Hinton noted Queen Park urges institutions to share facilities and suggested the board join forces with Sheridan College He went on to point out colleges and universities would prefer students not have a lot of exposure to computers before going inlo post secondary school com courses He said when high schools offer computer courses it 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