AUCTION SALE THURS.,AUG.1 6:00 P.M. At 1845 Rosebank Rd. N., Pickering. (1 mile north of Hwy. 2) Property ofthe estate of the late ENA McBRIDE, furniture, an- tiques, collectables, and a large amount of dishes. A nice clean sale. Terms cash. EARL GAUSLIN AUCTIONEER 640-3079 CORNEILS AUCTION BARN TUES., AUG. 6 6:30 P.M. Three miles east of Little Britain or 7 miles west of Lindsay on the Lin- dsay/Little Britaln Rd. Green Admiral 30" stove, chesterfields, antique dressers, spin washer, single box spring & mat- tresses, coffee and end tables, pump organ, wooden wardrobes, oc- casional chairs, bicycles, garden traller, portable & console color T.V.'s table lamps, exercise bike, chrome kitchen suite, quantlty of household items. DON CORNEIL AUCTIONEER R.R.l LITTLE BRITAIN 705-786-2183 CORNEILS AUCTION BARN FRI., AUG. 2 6:00 P.M. Three miles east of Little Britain or 7 miles west of Lindsay on the Lin- dsaylLittle Britain Rd. Harvest table, Victorian marble top lamp table, 3 drawer chest of drawers, oak hall seat, parlour tables, 6 fan back chairs, pressback hl-chair, pine cupboard, parlour chairs, Jenny Lynn beds, an- tique coffee grinder, king size waterbed, Hoosier kitchen cupboard, 25 cu. ft. freezer, washstands, partial toilet sets, Elec- trohome air conditioner, oak day bed, secretariat, Finlay cookstove, IBM punch clock, commercial upright cooler, quantity of china and glass. DON CORNEIL AUCTIONEER R.R.1 LITTLE BRITAIN 705-786-2183 AUCTION SALE WED. AUG. 14 10:00 A.M. Consignment sale at Or- val McLean Auction Cen- ter - Lindsay - Massey Harris 44 tractor and farm implements from estate of BLANCHE WEBSTER RICH - OAK- WOOD plus consign- ments accepted of machinery, cars, trucks, boats, trailers, motor- cycles, campers, lawn & garden equipment, tools, NOTE PLEASE CON- SIGN by JULY 26. Bring to barn or phone 705-324-2783 LINDSAY AUCTIONS FuN FOR THEWHOLE FAMILY AI rEND ONE THIs WEEKENn AUCTOS AUCTION SALE THURS., AUG. 1 6:00 P.M. Property of MR. & MRS. DONALD JACK, at Orval McLean Auction Center, Lindsay. . Hall table, loveseat, chair and foot. stool, step table, recliner, stereo com- ponent set, 4 antique dining chairs, walnut china cabinet, parlour tabIl, gold 24" electric stove, piano stool, brass log holder, table saw, dehumidifier, Kenmore dryer, 318 electric drill, sabre saw, skill saw, an- tique lamp shade, 32' alumInum extension ladder, drop front desk, mirrors, wooden chair, spacesaver couch, 1/2 moon end table, white chest, Kroeler double dresser & nite table, Sklar chesterfield chair, office chair, telephone, ivory velvet chesterfield, solid maple coffee table, lampa, shelves, round oak table, fruitwood lamp table, Admiral refridgerator, small ap- pliances, fireplace equipment, antique mar- ble sink, hall tree, Ige. library table, Hoover spin washer, sander, tool box, shop vac, metal shelves, 2 hand saws, chests, single cont. bed, nite table, wooden rocking chair, magazine rack, 8 bookcases, wicker basket, wooden secretary desk, Olympic SGE 50 typewriter, red shelves, small oak desk, Smith Corona portable typewriter, secretary chair, humidifier, rollaway bed, Ige. fan, in- sta boat, 4 drawer filing cabinet, 3 seater sofa, solid 5' coffee table, RCA portable color T.V. with converter, large cushions, 2 green chairs, Iron grates, wheelbarrow, 5 veranda pillars 8', Toro snow blower, garden tools, electric mower, 2 lawn chairs & lounge, antique cultivator, concrete plan- ter, antique crock, kerosene stove. Don't miss this sale 6 p.m. sharp. No reserve. ORVAL MCLEAN AUCTIONS 324-2783 LINDSAY NEW INITOWN? LET US PUT OUT THE MAT FOR YOU! 0rDME Miq P 668-8943 AUCTION SALE SAT., AUG.3 11:00 A.M. At the Brooklin Com- munity Centre, Cassels Rd., Brooklin, Ont. Special estate and con- signment sale featuring: ANTIQUES & FUR- NITURE - oak gran- dfather clock with bevelled glass door, dated 1921 with German works & Westminster chimes, 1870 pine fiat back cupboard, refinished 1930 pine cupboard with bins, oak desk table, oak buffet with 'leaded glass, grammaphone stand, f loor modal gram. maphone, Victorian parlour table, child's old barrel rocker, old mirrored buffet, bevelled glass oval mirror, early 20's 9 piece dining room suite with 3 sided glass china cabinet & mirrored vanity (20's & 30's), old pine box, antique side chairs, out sized wicker picnic basket, Duncan Fyfe drop leaf dining room table, spinning wheel, Ice cream chairs. GLASS & CHINA - collec- tor plates, rare hard to find flow blue pattern, Windsor Castle, com- merotive plate date 1883, carnival glass, Cuspidor & fluted bowl, 10 place wash basin set, circa 1900, Caulden England, triple plate cruit set, stamped ACME Silver Co., Toronto, Ink well desk lamp, quite unique, Nippon mustache cup, lead crystal, early glass, cranberry tumble up set, pink & yellow depression glass, flying turkey dishes, Indian tree din- ner plates, matching Bavarian cups & saucers. MORE FURNITURE - folding bookcase, 3 tier oak bookcase, matching solid walnut half moon tables, Windsor back chairs, 2 oak swivel cap- tains chairs, oak rocker highly ornate, circa 1890, 12 ft. sq. blue shag car- pet, walnut china cabinet, Louis XV style arm chair, wall clock, curved spindle Boston rocker, small draw leaf table with turned lakes, Acadian wood bed, pair of open top butter crocks, oak step down filing & drawer cabinet. PLUS - World War Il air- plane propellor, 81/2 fi. in length never used, Avon collection, spoon collec- tion, and lots more. List incomplete at press time. Snack bar available. Terms cash or approved cheque. Sale managed by: D.L.S. AUCTION SERVICE P.O. BOX 1007 STATION B OSHAWA, L1J 5Y9 434-6333 DALE SMITH AUCTIONEER WHITBY 'n FREE PRESS 131 Brock Street North Whitby - 668-6111 WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, J ULY 31, 1985, PAGE 25 M.C.C.R. officiais advise.... Beware of unethical salesmen Whtby's Most Wldety Rend C1 ASSIFIED ADS When a 74-year old woman was "in- timidated" into paying $1300 for simple home repairs that should have cost $400, it was just another example of On- tario's third largest consumer rip-off. "We investigate dozens of similar com- plaints every year but they never fail to get our goat," says Tom John- son, Chief Investigator for the Business Prac- tices Division, Ontario Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations. Like many other vic- times of home repair scams, this elderly woman was conned into signing an overpriced contract with a door-to- door seller to upgrade her suburban home. Fortunately, an in- vestigator persuaded the seller to return the extra money charged. Three men were fined earlier this year in con- nection with the case for making "uncon- scionable represen- tations" prohibited by the Business Practices Act. Johnson says home repairs rank next to car repairs ând odometer fraud as the largest con- sumer scams in On- tario. Unethical door-to- door sellers of home repairs may invent or exaggerate problems such as faulty roofing and charge exorbitantly high prices for minor work. Elderly people may be easy targets because "many still believe a handshake is as good as a bond", says Johnson. His 12 investigators each handle between 35 and 40 cases at a time, from simple complaints about door-to-door salespeople to major real estate fraud. Odometer misrepre- sentations continue to be one of their major challenges. "In the past, before we started to clamp down, the rate of odometer roll-backs or mileage misrepresen- tation may have been as high as 90 per cent," says Dave Mitchell, director of investigation and enforcement for the ministry's Business Practices Division. "We'll never wipe it out entirely; it's just too profitable." Mitchell says consumers still have a 50 per cent chan- ce of running into odometer tampering when they buy a used car, adding that more used cars are sold from private driveways than are sold by registered car dealers in Ontario. Unethical car sellers SType writer RENTALS also SALES & SERVICE may manually alter the odometer to show lower mileage or simply fail to reveal the odometer is recording a second time around. (Some odometers change from 99,999 to zero and being recording distance again.) Odometer frauds are uncovered in a variety of ways including com- plaints from consumers, spot checks on dealers and research into vehicle records. But the most dramatic investigative tool is the so-called "ghost" car operation which helps in- vestigators tackle fraudulent car repair practices, the largest single source of con- sumer complaints to the ministry. Under the guidance of a joint ministry and Metro Toronto Police auto fraud squad, "or- dinary" people are con- tracted to take cars into designated garages for repairs. The cars are sent out in perfect working order or rigged with a minor fault, following a thorough inspection by the Ontario Motor League and one of the squad's own Class "A" mechanics. The garage is asked to check a supposed problem and make required repairs. Un- necessary work or in- flated bills could result in charges. The ghost car project was launched in 1979, the first government program of its kind in Canada. Since then, ap- proximately 3,000 charges have been laid against repair outlets, with an estimated con- viction rate of 80 per cent. Last Year Midas Canada was fined $20,000 for claiming un- necessary repairs were required to a customer's car, the largest fine ever levied under the Business Practices Act. Penalties handed out on ministry cases have ranged from $25 for a slipshod contractor to penitentiary terms for people involved in major frauds. The ministry in- vestigators, together with compliance of- ficers, are responsible for policing 16 laws ad- ministered by the Business Practices Division. The laws range from basic con- sumer protection to the regulation of several in- dustries ineluding travel agencies, motor vehicle dealers and business brokers. During the last fiscal year, the team began 650 investigations and 377 prosecutions. More than $325,000 was recovered for con- sumers through court- ordered or voluntary restitution. While cars and houses account for the largest number of in- vestigations, other common consumer problems reported to the ministry include phoney charities, land swindles, mail order scams, illegal mortgage brokerage services and long-term contracts. Chief investigator Johnson says fly-by- night charities usually surface at the same time as legitimate groups. He advises con- sumers to check the authenticity of charities before making donations. Meanwhile, in- vestigations are con- tinuing into 20 to 30 companies suspected of misrepresenting On- tario land sales. During the last two years the ministry has received hundreds of complaints from people who lost property down- payments of up to $10,000 or bought wor- thless lots in resort areas near Toronto. Already four men have been convicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the public in connection with the case. Also under in- vestigation is a scam af- fecting people who have difficulty obtaining mortgages through legitimate money len- ders. Illegal mortgage brokers have been promising to arrange loans of any amount, regardless of their clients' credit rating, in Speaking to You By SCOTT FENNELL, MP (PC - Ontario) Exports provide employment for three million Canadians and account for more than 30 per cent of the nation's Gross National Product. Thus, having access to foreign markets is critical to Canada's economic survival. This is why the federal government attaches high priority to the early convening of broadly based in- ternational trade negotiations as a means to hait the growth of protectionist measures throughout the world, open further markets for Canadian exports, enhance security of access to these markets and to improve international trade rules. In preparation for these negotiations, Canada made a submission to the GATT on July 19, 1985, en- titled: "Multilateral Trade Negotiations (MTN); Some Initial Canadian Views". The submission gives a general indication of Canada's initial ap- proach and attitudes on the main questions which, in our view, should be included on the MTN agenda and sets out Canada's preliminary overall objec- tives and priorities in the negotiations. These objectives and priorities primarily reflect a desire to: hait protectionism and seek further ex- pansion of access to markets; develop new rules of conduct for agricultural trade; seek tighter c -ciplines on the use of subsidies and on contingen- cy protection measures; develop a framework for trade in services; and strengthen the effectiveness of tht rule of law and non-discrimination governing internaional trade. Shoulù you wish to obtain more information on the Canadian subirssion, you may do So by contacting my constituency ffice at 52 Church St S Pickering, LIV 2H5. Phone: 686-0432. My staff wil be pleased to assist you. exchange for "good faith money". Most people never get the promised loans or a refund of their deposits. Johnson says one man was sent to jail in May for defrauding customers in an illegal mortgage scam and in- vestigations are con- tinuing into other suspects. Consumers also regularly lose money, though in smaller amounts, through mail order schemes and by signing long-term con- tracts with health clubs that may become in- solvent before member- ship expire. Paying C.O.D. for goods and services or- dered by mail and user fees for health clubs are good ways to avoid problems says Johnson. Firm gets Hydro contract A Whitby plant will become involved in the current construction of the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station just outside of Bowmanville. Last week, Ontario Hydro awarded a con- tract for the supply of ready mix concrete - valued at over $654,000 - to Canada Building Material of Tdronto. The company's Hopkins St. plant will supply the concrete Hydro needs for powerline foundations on its right-of-way bet- ween the Darlington power plant and the Cherrywood Transfor- mer Station, north of Pickering.