Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 22, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday october 22, 1974 ruined farms Dot by Jack Macbeth Kildonan Scotland special except for the clogged roads and gawking tourists this wild and Breezy Corner of the scottish Highlands has changed h tue in the. 160 years since the infamous clearances sent its popu Latina scurrying for a Newlife and new Hope in Manitoba s. Red River Settle ment. Away from the coastal villages in particular there is Little to keep one s mind. Puig ged if to the 20th Century. Narrow roads twist slowly up the past the Rocky homesteads Long abandoned. Black nosed s he amongst the Heather which once fed the proud clansmen s Fine Black cattle. The the. W a a English estate owners who m6ved.in when the highlanders moved evicted by the countess of v slither her British a few widely across the Barren mostly shepherds Are.1, Seldom i evidence unto the together for. A few drains at one o f the country inns i Large measure to the enough they will travel As much As 15 or 20 Miles to farming activity As such is concer Itrat de Lush Green valleys following the Rivers to the. is Here that the land owners have built their most of them palatial mansions carrying a Price tag of hundreds of thousands if not millions of pounds. In the Strath of Kildonan for the Valley and. Parish which gave the. City of Winnipeg original name Kuonan a half dozen such estates share the arable land and to the Helms Dale River. Gone Bariner macintoshes arid families which once lived in Friendly hamlets up and Down the Strath. Among the few. Native born scots most of whom came to. Kildonan Strath Long after it was emptied by the there is no outpouring of. Affection even today for the wealthy English immigrants Over a dram or two they display. A marked bitterness toward a Feudal system far More odious than the clan system which it re placed. They said but what can we do about it the Day of the is gone All we have left How is tradition and that too is fading. But Pihe of us would like nothing better than to have one More Good Bash at. Them. Blood con descending snobs that s what at Kildonan one can still see tangible links with the past. Just off the Road occupied b y a family working of the estate owners stands the tiny Village Church and its ancient graveyard. Across a Hill res ing 30 or 40 the burial site of an chieftain. It was at the this 1799, that some 400 clansmen and their pipers gathered to. Forai the famed.93rd , later into the Argyll and Sutherland attached to of the Church itself is visit of prime minister John in 1962. His a Kildonan ban Herman. Half Way up the nearby mute of the Highland families who to Canada. Shapeless rows stones is All a their former Homes and Here and there the ground traces of the fur rows cleaved by an Early still further up atop the Ridge another civilization which must 18th-Century High than headstones blackened by sit were the. Planted then Between years ago according to local historians. Although perhaps austere life in the Highland wilderness was not All that s e the Sutherland decided that English sheep would make bet Ter and. Less troublesome neighbor s than scottish clansmen. In the 50 years follow ing the decimation of the clans at Cullo Den and the subsequent systematic destruction of the clan system the need for her to keep a standing army disappeared., today the Claymore Dirk and studded leather targe have joined the druids in the history books if the present inhabitants of the Strath of any reminder of this fact they have Only to look at the memorial Knoll across the Road fro Riv their for there High above the Dusty re mams of that Early Highland chieftain some unthinking erected his own tribute to the 20th Century a television Antenna realtors Appal judge by John Forbis Nuie Island special it was in 1972 when Robert Leader of some Nuie is Landers told a visit Rig delegation of vips and new zealand of finals us around not new. Zea not. The United a on that occasion As on Many others tiny Nuie pronounced new Way asserted a spirit of ind Epen d e n c e and self Reliance which has become the Nujean trademark in., the South Pacific Region. Nuie a Mere 1000 Square Miles of forested Coral Miles from its clo Sest neighbor is unique among the far Flung islands of polynesia.1 while the Nui eans recognize their close ethnic ties decision unjust chief Calgary up chief John Snow of the Stony Indian of Southern Alberta said last week a decision by Premier Peter Lougheed to Force the band to go the supreme Cour of Alberta for consideration of a land claim is unjust. The band is claiming acres near Rocky Mountain House. Chief Snow claimed the Stonys were granted rights to the land under treaty no. .7 signed in 1877. The claim was approved Las year by the Federal govern land claims commission but. The provincial government in t bound by the ruling since land under dispute is provincial Crown territory. The conflict started in 1972 with construction of the big Horn dam which flooded thou Sands of acres previously use by the big Horn Stony ban for Hunting trapping. The chief said the Premier action in insisting on Cour settlement demonstrates tha he has no interest or concern in recognizing maintaining o protecting the rights of treaty Indian s in he1 said that under the 193 natural resources a Transfer the province is Obi Honor Indian Ian claims endorsed by government. Besides the. The House area i the Foothills West of red Deer Alberta indians have Man other claims pending some involving the Alberta Oil Sand arid others concerning land in and near Edmonton with the. Polynesian peo Ples of Samoa and Tonga they maintain a cultural and social identity which sets them apart from the inhabitants of thousands of other islands which Dot the Central Pacific. Since. 1901 the tiny re Mote Island has been a the r new zealand. Since. 1947, All Nuie is Landers have held new zealand citizenship. Even though the shows up in the Island s typically British Nistra legislative sys tems Nui Earis needed lessons in democracy. Their traditional governmental process As opposed More or less Feudal system practice on most other. Pacific islands has always been based on the principle of Freedom and Equality for All. Each Man when he mar Ries automatically gains a in Public affairs. Women automatically have time in Public de Bates and the entire Island Community is governed by majority Rule. In fact the Nujean society1 is characterized by Phil Amos new zealand s minister of is land affairs As the most democratic in the perhaps Nuie s democracy evolved because of the Rigours of life on this isolated Island. To survive and live Well each person needed a measure of individuality and self sufficiency because Nuie is not the provident Paradise that Many other Pacific is lands claim to be. The Rocky Island rises sheer from the Ocean to an Elevation of about 200 feet. Due to the porous nature of the Limestone Coral Rock there Are no streams lakes nor Ponds on Nuie even though the rainfall is often tropical and heavy. Nuie s Only sources of fresh water Are catchment tanks which store rainfall and Wells which tap a Basin of underground water at Depths of More than 100 feet. And yet the Island s economic mainstay is Agri culture the production of copra from coconuts the growing of limes Pas Sion fruit and the Harvest ing of Honey. Rocky As it is one f or m or Nujean resident says the Only agriculture tool needed is a soil is its Only re source. From it Springs a tropical Forest which makes the Nui eans self sufficient in Timber. The two specially crops of the in land limes and Pas Sion fruit Are processed into pulp and juice and exported to new zealand. Despite negligible Natu ral resources null has Over the years made cd Edmonton Reat estate companies a conv Pany president and a Branch sales manager have been convicted of fraud charges by a supreme court judge he was amazed and appalled or. Justice j. Cavari agh convicted o s b o r n e Brothers land and property Ltd. And Osborne real estate Ltd. As Well As William Osborne pres brie company and a director of the other and Neil Larsen a Branch sales manager. The judge fined the companies while Osborne was fined sen ?250. In passing sentence recently or. Justice Cavanagh said the companies will probably lose their provincial real estate licences and he was taking thai into consideration. I m just amazed listen ing to these 0sboriies William and his brother Ray and How they handle real estate i m appalled at the thinking that seems to think because they lost on one they can get. It out. Of someone else. The judge found that Larsen and 0 s b 6 r Rie misled Roy Moser by telling him they would buy his House for and that the extra 000 shown on an offer to Purchase was a paper Hay who was t charged said a family named Davidson bought a acreage and then a Ciarea Joey like it. or. Moser s condone mum arid offered for it.i.--. -., the offer was taken to or. Moser who was told he would get the Price or. Guaranteed if the companies could t sell it Ray Osborne said the extra would compensate the companies Tor. The inst commis i ions and Legal fees underwritten by the companies on the Davidson acreage transaction. V Crown prosecutor Michael Stevens Guille argued that the Davidson offer for the Moser Home was agree ment to pay for the property he Moser s had been misled when1 they were told the extra "paper1, i Otic Canada goes metric Hampton metrication converter tossed a Mckiss feet the Dis Tance for. Throwing a Standard five Pound feet eight in c he Robert Gardner Gloucestershire attention All teachers students employees employers to Ordyn Chick d i talc Stosur Fflint Matiu Raminto Luli Hll if Tor Himani Ohl rom add Tuto Day mail Supply 324-1301 Rothesay v Apfl. Man. R2q1t8 allow 2 Uratsu for it Elviry scots of the South Pacific _ i r _ wrest living from Rock Cellenti. Use of its greatest its people r in con Trast to most polynesian take life pretty much As it comes the n u i e a n s Are a canny Thrifty conservative and Indus Nous people. The the South they have been called. By sheer muscle Power and determination the. Is Landers have created a More i or less viable eco nomic unit from their Rock. New zealand for administration expertise. And about. Million in funds annually Nui Earis still Man age to produce Over Milr lion per year As income. Today Little Nuie stands on. The threshold of a new Era. A Recentlycomplete d air strip is bruising the outside1 world in. And letting Soiree of the Nui eans. Out. s Beds has just been built. Tourism if at All will be Small portions but the. Uri. Deniable Impact of Lar air service is already changing the Nujean Way of life. Addition Auy in mid-1974, the people of Nuie voted for internal self govern ment firmly establishing Robert ref As the political Leader of his people. Or. Rex a successful business Man is known through the. Pacific islands As a Wise and levelheaded Leader. He is cautious As most Nui eans Are and intends to maintain a very close working relationship with the government of new zealand. We do not. Want full in dependence for says Rex that Issue we dug a Hole and buried it forever nonetheless the tiny is land of Nuie has taken a tentative step toward self determination. In typical Nujean fashion the people will undoubtedly consider their new status for a time and if they like it they la buy it. Of drugs seized Cairo route the egyptian coast guard has sized tons of narcotics Worth More than. Million the .official1 Middle East news Agency. Reported Here. The Agency said the haul was1 seized on the Mediterranean coast near Alamon in the Western desert. The smugglers got away. Doors open 10 . Id 10 . Won. Thru frl., 9 . To 10 . Grant Park Northgate Nairn 59 ;