SS February 17. 195 CastlegarNews as a2 Castlegar News February 17, 1985 Police file WEA THER 1 BRIEFLY Postal talks halted | Third heart implant Forecast A small amount of cash | Castlegar RCMP are inves- tigating the theft. SPECIALS R YC $1.74 Kg. ‘\ XN ~ : wr, Mendinawey i a I ! ' * Prince George OTTAWA (CP) — Talks talks since November, turns over a formal report on the dispute to Labor Minister Bill McKnight. Hartt has until Feb. 28 to turn in his report. If he uses up the full period the earliest a strike could begin would be March 8. The last national postal strike occurred in 1981 and lasted 42 days. CUPW president Jean- Claude Parrot called the breakdown serious and said he is anxious to get on with a strike vote. Overwhelming endorsement of his call for a strike mandate is expected from union members. But Parrot emphasized that Canadians should not assume a strike is inevitable. Time remains to reach a set- tlement, he said. He estimated it will take until Jan. 26 or Jan. 27 to complete the nationwide vote between Canada Post Corp. and its largest union have broken. down after nearly eight months of bargaining, bringing the country one step closer to a ‘national postal strike. The impasse was announc- ed jointly Saturday by the Crown agency and the 23,000-member Canadian Union of Postal Workers, which represents mail sort- ers and most other inside postal employees. The surprise development came less than a day after the government renewed the mandate of conciliation com- missioner Stanley Hartt for two weeks to help the two sides resolve outstanding differences. CUPW members across the country began casting ballots Friday in a national SUNRISE: 6: 57 A.M. SUNSET: 5:12 P.M. strike vote. By law, however, they must remain on the job until el l=] Le} LJ [2 at least seven days after Hartt, a Montreal lawyer who has been involved in the CENTRAL FOODS Charlie Says @ 0 Get Your am COHOE INSURANCE 1127-4th St. HOMEGOODS FURNITURE WAREHOUSE Tues. - Sat., 9:30 - 5:30 China Creek “Drive a Little to Save a Lot” — leaving period of about 10 days: for negotiations to re- sume and a settlement work- ed out before a walkout be- comes legal. “It’s not a hopeless situ- New roof for hospital By CasNews Staff Castlegar and District Hospital could be in line for a new roof. The Central for final approval. Hospital administrator Ken Talarico said this week that it will be a couple of U.S. ask for lumber slowdown ABERDEEN, WASH. (AP) — Rep. Don Bonker says he will introduce leg- islation next week directing United States negotiators to seek voluntary trade res. traints from the Canadian lumber industry. If Canada won't agree to voluntary restraints, Bonker said his bill provides for “legislatively mandated res- trictions.” The Democrat from Vai couver, Wash. announced his plan Thursday during a visit to his 3rd District. Anne's Coiffures CREDIT UNION CASTLEGAR SAVINGS C EDIT UNIOR Kootenay Regional District Hospital baord has approved $160,000 for the roof. The project must now go to the provincial government weeks before it is known if the government approves the request. sundeck Meanwhile, work on the new hospital has been stalled while crews await new doors. Talarico added that if approved, the project will then go to tender. He said it will take about three to four weeks to complete. Talarico noted the roof “is not too bad yet, but we are having problems in various dreas.” hospital mediate regional Elsewhere, Area G regional director Iris Bakken has asked the regional board to locate an care centre in Salmo. inter- The request has been referred to the hospital board's advisory committee. Despite an increase in their own money, so much housing starts and the de- mand for wood products, many mills across the U.S. northwest are closing or re- main shut down. About 24 mills have closed in Washington during the past three years — the majority in 1984, said Gus Kuehne, executive vice pres- ident of the Northwest In- She says another client provide a chance for the ¢ skills and feel useful. pogsible,” \Leyba says. clients work skills such as HANDICAP continued from front But the Society is also looking for jobs where clients can simply get out into the community. to someone — something that doesn't pay but, could “We're trying to look into as many different things as The Society handles 13 or 14 clients on a regular basis and would also appreciate residents teaching the poge the better,” Leyba says. would be a good companion lient to use communication carpentry. dependent Forest Manufac turers. The flow of Canadian lum- ber into the United States, which is aided by the com- paratively weak Canadian regarded as a prob- lem for the crippled North sends west timber industry. VICTORIA (CP) — Ed- ucation Minister Jack Hein- rich said Friday he is confi- dent of bringing defiant school boards into line by sending a letter demanding budgets that obey provincial restraint lelines. At least six school boards say they need more educa- tion money, and are refusing to submit budgets complying with guidelines set by the CORRECTION sever Piper Vol. 17 Ne. 200 The Vicks Vapo-Rub Should reed 50 mL We opologize for ony Heinrich letter government. A_ seventh board is submitting two bud- gets — one complying with restraint and another listing its actual requirements. Friday was the deadline for submission of the budgets for the first six months of this year. “Till send a letter as I do under the provisions of the School Act,” Heinrich said about the defiance. COUGH... |GHOO! COLD SALE! Low, Low Prices on Cold Medications: Hot lemon medicine for your cold. Reduces fever, decongestant, relieves pain 10 Adult doses. 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Wages, the traditional stumbling block, also remain to be settled but are not con sidered the most important issue by the union, Parrot said. Canada Post spokesman John Caines played down the possibility of a strike, saying that despite the impasse, talks with the union have been the most sophisticated and amicable ever. “The bargaining teams have gone as far as they can for the moment but nobody seems to be too upset. There is still lots of time to work things out,” Caines said. While Hartt will no longer be meeting together with the two sides, Caines said, he will be consulting each separately in preparing his report_and may still be able to help work out differences. The negotiations consti- tute the first unrestricted round of bargaining between the union and Canada Post since the agency was created in 1981 to take over the former debt-ridden Post Of- fice Department. Canada Post settled last October with the 22,000- member letter Carriers Union of Canada and an- nounced an agreement Fri- day with the Association of Postal Officials of Canada, a 4,400-member union repre- senting full-time postal su pervisors. Bennett on economy VANCOUVER (CP) — Premier Bill Bennett will make a televised speech Monday evening on the sub ject of the economy. The premier: plans to dis cuss this week's conference in Regina of the premier's and the prime minister. Ben- nett also is expected to dis: cuss federal support for free- trade zones, a new tax collection agreement, a $650- million regional development arrangement and other ini tiatives to encourage econ. For the In Wednesday's Castlegar News it was reported that Jack Kinakin — head teacher at Puss~Creek Elementary School — must spend an extra 45 minutes a day supervising children, not in cluding lunch hours, due to the loss of his noon-hour omic development. Monday is the third anni- versary of the announcement of the Social Credit gov- ernment’s restraint program. The premier has requested an hour of television time starting at 7 p.m. He will speak for about half an hour, then will answer questions from reporters. The event, originating from the Robson Square media centre in Vancouver, will be carried on CBC tele- vision. record supervisor. In fact, the loss of Kin. akin’s noon-hour supervisor means he spends only the lunch hour time supervising children. Kinakin spent 45 minutes after school super vising pupils before the loss of his supervisor. Court news Lyne Reorda was fined $450 this week in Castlegar provincial court after plead: ing guilty to impaired driv ing. * 6 «6 A $100 fine was given to Michael Laren after he plead. ed guilty to being a minor found in a licensed estab- lishment. * 28 « Murray Booth was fined HE BAHA FAITH $75 for consuming liquor in a public place. . 6 -« Larry Lukenbill and Carlo Dattolo were each sentenced to seven months in jail, and put on two years’ probation after pleading guilty to con spiracy to commit an indic. table offence. * «© -« A $300 fine and seven-day intermittent jail term were given to Ernest Efanoff, who pleaded guilty to’ driving a motor vehicle despite being prohibited from doing so. *“ «¢ « Murray Spain was fined $750 after pleading guilty to driving with a blood alcohol content over .08. * 68 « A $50 fine was given to Paolo Macasso after he plead ed guilty to failing to give information connected with a motor vehicle accident. YOUR today. you keep more of your hard-earned money. 1444 Columbia Ave., Castlegar 365- 6151 9 to 6 Mon.-Fri. 9 to 5 Sat. WRITER DIES TORONTO (CP) — Writer Marian Engel, known for her thoughtful and esoteric contributions to Canadian literature, died in Toronto General Hospital today after a long battle with cancer, a family friend said. She was 51. Engel was a recipient of the Governor General's Award in 1976 for her novel Bear, the controversial erotic tale of a love affair between a woman and a bear. She produced 11 novels and books during her career plus numerous stories and articles for magazines and journals. Among the best known novels are No Clouds of Glory (republished as Sarah Bastard’s Notebook), The Honeyman Festival, The Glassy Sea and Lunatic Villas. 80 LAYOFFS OTTAWA (CP) — A total of 80 National Research Council employees received official layoff notices because of federal spending cuts, but the number who actually lose their jobs will probably be lower. The notices came after four months of efforts by management, union and government staff to minimize the loss of 212 positions caused by $71. million the government cut from the NRC budget for the coming fiscal year. “About 150 employees were told several months ago they could face layoffs, but the official notices were delayed while an attempt was made to find jobs inside and outisde the NRC,” said council spokesman Clive Willis. BOY PULLS GUN GROSSE POINTE WOODS, MICH. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy determined to be rid of his braces pulled a gun on an orthodontist and said he didn't care about going to jail, “as long as I can have my bands off,” the doctor said Friday. Police eventually disarmed the boy after a LOUISVILLE KY. (AP) — Friends and relatives wat- ched Murray Haydon “wast- ing away” until his failing heart prompted the retired autoworker to volunteer for the world’s third human ar- tificial heart implant. “A week and a half ago he had a real bad spell and it was obvious he was getting ready to die,” said his cardi ologist, Dr. Jerome Lacy. “He and the family said, ‘Is this it? Is there anything else we can do?’ " Haydon, 58, of Louisville is to undergo the experimental operation this morning at mechanical heart. Haydon’s wife of 32 years, Juanita, and their three chil- dren support the decision. {We were hoping for any- thing,” said his daughter, Di- ana Welsh. “All the kids just want their dad alive.” Bed-ridden and winded by the slightest movement, “he began to feel himself wasting away” when his medication proved ineffective, Lacy said. Haydon was interviewed Feb. 9 by DeVries, the only surgeon authorized by the Food and Drug Administra- tion to implant the plastic and metal heart, which is Humana Hospital where Dr. William DeVries will implant the Jarvik-7 Pp by a 147-kik drive system connected to the patient by air tubes. GORBACHEV NEXT IN LINE? WASHINGTON (AP) — only a year ago, made his last With g that Soviet Leader Konstan- tin Chernenko probably: will not recover from his illness, U.S. ofifcials are focusing on Mikhail Gorbachev as his likely successor. Gorbachev, at 53 youngest member of the Politburo, would be the fourth leader in three years if such a transition took place this year. The 73-year-old Chernenko missed another opportunity to appear publicly this week. A scheduled meeting in Mos cow on Tuesday with Greek Premier Andreas Papandre the struggle in which two shots were fired into the floor, said Jack Patterson, Grosse Pointe Woods public safety director. The orthodontist, who was not the boy’s own dentist, said he stalled the teenager during the Feb. 8 incident by removing a few of the bands and a wire that ringed his teeth. FIRE KILLS 25 MANILA (AP) — Firefighters declared a fire in the luxury Regent of Manila hotel under control today and officials placed the death toll at 25, including charred bodies in sections of the structure still too hot to enter. The last body brought out of the smouldering hotel today was that of a sixth American casualty The fire broke out early Wednesday and the hotel's management are calling it “a carefully conceived and brutally implemented arson attack.” DEATH TOLL LOW VICTORIA (CP) — The number of people killed on British Columbia Highways in 1984 was the lowest in four years, the Highways Ministry said Friday. Ministry statistics show there were 523 people killed on the roads last year, a drop of 14 per cent from 1983's 607 traffic fatalities. The number of people killed in traffic accidents in 1982 was 81, the ministry said in a news release. In 1981, it was 859. BIRTH RATE UP LONDON, ONT. (CP) — The decline in Canada's birth rate is levelling off and the trend to families with fewer children may even be reversing, a national study suggests. T.R. Balakrishnan, a University of Western Ontario sociologist involved in the study of women's attitudes toward love and family, said Friday the cross-Canada survey provides the first inkling that Canada's low birth rate may be about to rebound. Balakrishnan said women in the 18-24 age group who were polled want an average of 2.25 children. By comparison, women in the 30-34 age group want an average of 2.01 children. WALESA DARES WARSAW (AP) Solidarity Lech Walesa dared Poland's Communist authorities Sat urday to arrest him, and urged workers to take part in a 15minute general strike Feb. 28 to protest government plans to raise food prices Walesa emerged from a 1'/2-hour meeting with a prosecutor in Odansk, during which he said he was warned he could be sent to prison for five years for continuing to lead the banned Solidarity free trade union movement PRISONER OKAY A USS. air force doctor in founder FRANKFURT (AP) West Germany pronounced American TV correspon dent Jeremy Levin in “good health” Saturday despite the 11 months Levin reported spending chained in solidary confinement in Lebanon But the air force said Levin, who was the Beirut bureau chief for Cable News Network when he was kidnapped last March 7, would not meet journalists before he goes home ou was cancelled, and Greek officials said they were told Chernenko was ill Chernenko, who was given the mantle of Kremlin power publie on Dee. 27, although the Soviet news agency Tass said he address- ed a meeting of the Politburo on Feb. 7. Bat U.S. Soviet analysts say it is known that Cher- nenko, once a heavy smoker, suffers from emphysema and that the illness, which cannot be cured, has apparently worsened. Senior U.S. officials are said to be privately specu lating that Chernenko cannot live longer than another six months. “It may not be a bad said one informed “But it can Chernenko's two predeces. sors, Yuri Andropov and Le. onid Brezhnev, both died "WASTED LITTLE TIME’ Like the first two artificial heart recipients, Barney Clark and William Schroeder, Haydon suffers from dilated cardiomyopathy, a disease that is described as enlarge ment of the heart muscle and dilated ventricles. But the first two also had other medical problems, and Haydon does not. “His heart is his only real problem,” Lacy said Friday. “He is just the perfect can didate.” Clark, 62, lived 112 days before dying of circulatory collapse after multi-organ system failure. Clark also suffered from chronic respir. atory problems. He received his implant at the University after lingering illnesses which prevented them from appearing in public for long periods of time. Andropov died Feb. 9, 1984, and Brez. hnev, who was in office for 18 years, died Nov. 10, 1982. CHOOSES GORBACHEV A U.S. expert on Soviet affairs, who spoke on condi tion of anonymity, said Gor. bachev is the most likely suc- cessor. But he said there are offi- cials who believe the next leader could be Grigory Ro- manov, 61, or Foreign Min ister Andrei Gromyko, 75. John Steinbruner, a Soviet expert at the Brookings In. stitution, said “all the stan dard signs” point to Gor. bachev as the sucessor. “He clearly has been put in that position, and fairly deli of Utah, where DeVries worked until August. Shroeder, 53, a diabetic, is just two doors away from Haydon's hospital room. He received his implant in Nov- ember and is recovering from strokes he suffered Dee. 13. Persistent flu-like symptoms have prevented his leaving the hospital for an apartment across the street. Haydon’s mental outlook is excellent; he neither has suf- fered heart attacks nor un- dergone previous heart sur-- gery and was ineligible for a human heart transplant, Lacy said. Generally, doctors don’t like to transplant hu- man hearts into patients older than 50. Chernenko’s recovery unlikely berately,” Steinbruner said in an interview. Gorbachev was well received during a visit to Bi in December and also on an earlier visit to Canada, he added. “He is more cosmopolitan and a more charistmatic figure than Soviet leaders generally are.” Steinbruner said Gorback ev also is “a political figure of obvious ability.” But Gorbachev was con- sidered close to Andropov, not Chernenko. In addition to his Politburo membership, he also serves on the Commun ist Part Secretariat. Roman- ov also serves in both roles. Steinbruner said little is known about Gorbachev's views. MLAs get a raise TORONTO (CP) — Can- ada’s weather service wants to know whether there is too much cloudy language in its daily fore- casts. For starters, some radio forecasts are probably too long-winded, said Allan Campbell, head of public and marine weather ser- vices for Environment Canada, based in suburban Downsview. “Most urban dwellers only want two pieces of in- formation : . whether it is going to rain or snow today and what the temperature is going to be,” he said in an interview Friday. Campbell also suspects that some of the terms forecasters use have to many shaded meanings. For example, fair weather may mean clear skies to one person but simply no rain to another. Studies in the United States and European say that too much weather in- formation doesn't sink in CHARLES LA VERTU VICTORIA ) — Members of the British Columbia legislature wasted little time Friday giving themselves a 7/2-per-cent boost in revenue and a hefty pension increase. Debate lasted less than a half hour, and approval was unanimous even though at least three Victoria-area MLAs had said outside the legislature that they would turn over their increases to children's programs. And to appease critics, Premier Bill Bennett has promised that the benefits section will be submitted to Ed Peck, pe ior st jon issi , for a ruling on whether it conforms to the government's restraint program Peck does not have any jurisdiction over actions of the legislature, but has agreed to provide a ruling Only dissent during debate of the bill was by Social Credit backbencher Jack Davis, a former provincial and federal cabinet minister, who objedted to the section that allows the cabinet to n.me parliamentary secretaries at $6,000 each a year mor: “The cabinet is big enough already,” said Davis who noted that 19 of the 57 MLAs already are in cabinet and the bill provides for the appointment of “10 pseudo-cabiriet ministers.” “This would bring the executive and shadow executive to 29, and with the whip, 30 — an effective majority in this chamber.” VOTING CONTROL Davis said the government already has the exclusive power to the purse and controls the administration, and adding 10 parliamentary secretaries would give it voting control of the house — a move which is neither democratic or parliamentary Provincial Secretary Jim Chabot, who piloted the bill through the legislature, said that while there was provision for 10 parliamentary secretaries, that did not mean 10 would be appointed. abot defended the capital city allowance of $60 a day for 50 days for members from ridings outside the Victoria area, and $30 a day for those in the Victoria area, saying that only two provinces do not provide such expenses — B.C. and Prince Edward Island. And B.C. was the only place that had a cap on them $1.2 MILLION BOOST having set the maximum at $3,000, he said. The allowance is taxable. Chabot noted that members in Quebec get $7,500, a year; in Ontario, $9,371; Newfoundland, $59.40 a day; Nova Scotia, $50 a day; New Brunswick, $80; Manitoba, $40 a day; Saskatchewan, $84; and Alberta $75. He said the travel allowance granted B.C. members, $1,650 a year, is the smallest in the country; the pension, with increase, about average; and there is no severance pay in British Columbia unlike Nova Scotia, Ontario, Ottawa and Quebec. In Quebec, he said, a defeated or retiring member would get two times his monthly salary for each year of service; and with his years in the B.C. house, such a severance allowance would cost the provincial taxpayers $150,000. New Democrat Mark Rose, a former member of Parliament, called for an outside commission to deal with compensation for members of the legislature as did Graham Lea, leader of the budding United Party “There is something unseemly about voting ourselves raises,” Rose said during debate. DEMEANS OFFICE The appearance of “snout at the trough,” demeans the office, he said. The bill boosts the pensions of members of the legislature to 80 per cent of their best earning year, including the new $3,000-a-year allowance, from the current 72 per cent without the new allowance. Those MLAs from the Victoria area will be deemed to have received the full capital city allowance for pension purposes. The pension increases will not be retroactive. MLAs currently earn $40,000 in salary and tax-free allowance. Cabinet ministers get $31,283 more The bill nearly” doubles to $2,472 from $1,648 the monthly constituencyaallowance for MLAs whose ridings are classified as remote or interior-coastal. This allowance is not considered to be part of income for pension purposes. Earlier, MLAs granted approval to changes in the rules governing the legislature. These include fines of $250 a day for any members who is named and banned from the house. On being named, a member may be banned up to 15 days from the house if he leaves voluntarily, and banned 30 days if not. Weather equipment improved VANCOUVER (CP) — The vice would also be improved forecast service” would be “The cost will be about $1.2 federal government will spend $1.2 million this year for West Coast marine wea ther forecasting improve ments that will include the establishment of a full-time marine forecasting position, Environment Minister Su zanne Blais-Grenier said Sat urday The minister said a round. the-clock weather and wave forecasating position would be established a the Van couver Weather Centre along with the addition of nine drifting buoys off the coast, a a cost of $700,000. She said the weather ser by adding more weather ob- serving stations and fixed buoys. Blais-Grenier made the an nouncement at a news con ference with Fisheries Minis. ter John Fraser. The ministers were res ponding to a report by Uni. versity of British Columbia oceanographer Paul LeBlond into the deaths last October of four fishermen during a severe storm on the north coast of Vancouver Island. The measures announced by the ministers were rec. ommended in LeBlond's re port million for the next few months and there will be other improvements ing.” she said, adding that the recommendations of a coroner's inquest into the deaths were also being stu died by the government “This storm was of a very special nature,” she said. “I'm not sure we'll ever be able to forecast with 100 per cent accuracy.” Fraser said the “tragedy was indeed a shock for everybody and we want to make sure it doesn't happen again.” Blais-Grenier said a “wave com introduced March 1 and wave forecasting techniques would be speeded up in order to implement a comprehensive coastal service by 1987. She said the Canadian Marine Broadcast system will be improved to try to in crease the speed of the wea ther forecast transmissions to fishermen The five additional ther observing stations would supplement those now in use, while the three deep-water bueys would add to the six already operated by the United States. wea and people cannot remem- to vague “ber the details, Campbell added. So the weather service hired Behavioral Team, a Toronto consultancy firm, to ask 600 Canadians what they like and do not like in the forecasts. The $50,000 contract, ordered by the previous Liberal government, just made it past the budget cuts the Progressive Con- servatives announced for Environment Canada. The results should be in by next month but some preliminary information is already out. Campbell feels that most weather forecasts can be pared down and that some data in forecasts is re- dundant. “If it’s going to rain, there is very little point in saying it is going to be cloudy.” On the other hand, ple would like to know “is it going to be hotter or colder or the same as yes- terday, which is something we only put in rarely.” Mengele may have lived in S. Ontario TORONTO (CP) — Can- adian authorities believed in 1962 that Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele may have been living in Canada, a letter released Friday by the RCMP indicates. However, after a five month investigation, the sus picion that Mengele was living in_southern Ontario under an assumed name proved to be unfounded: The Auschwitz concentra tion camp doctor sent thou. sands of people to their deaths during the Second World War. Sol Littman of Toronto, a Canadian spokesman for the zi-hunting Simon Wiesen. thal Centre, said in an inter. view Friday he is satisfied that “the guy in southern Ontario was not Mengele.” But he added: “This still does not prove that Mengele may not have visited Can ada.” United States government documents, released by the Wiesenthal Centre last month, indicate Mengele, then in Argentina, applied for Canadian immigration under the name Joseph Menke in 1962. That same year, the RCMP received word of a man living in a southern Ontario city, whose name was similar to Menke and whom they sus. pected of being Mengele The letter released Friday was composed by an RCMP officer in West Germany and sent to the U.S. Army Cen tral Registry, seeking infor mation on Mengele. “Information has been re ceived to the effect that a man, residing in Canada and using the name Joseph Men ke, may be identical to Jo seph (sic) Mengele, an al- leged German war criminal,” says the dispatch from G.M. Bailey, the Canadian visa control office in Cologne. CONFIRMED NAME U.S. Intelligence later con. firmed that the name Menke was one of the aliases used by Mengele, the former chief physician at the most. in- famous Nazi déith tally Littman said the sauthern Ontario suspect's name wasn't Menke but merely “similar to Menke.” Citing “unverified informa tion” on hand, the one-page letter says the German. born Nazi doctor, his wife and stepson apparently fled to South America after the war and was reported to be living in Argentina in Feb- ruary 1960. The only other information it offers about Mengele is that he was born March 19, 1911, in German and has been known to raise and train dogs as a hobby. “In view of the preceding, we should be grateful to re ceive any information con cerning Mengele that you are in a position to supply,” wrote Bailey, specifically re questing fingerprints of the doctor and photographs of him, his wife and the son. The RCMP officer also asked in the letter whether Mengele was indeed wanted for war crimes. But by Sep tember police were satisfied the man in Ontario wasn't Mengele. Littman praised the Cana dian government for under taking “a complete investi. gation to see what was going on at the time,” and for releasing all relevant docu ments. Motorcycle rules tightened VICTORIA (CP) Its going to become tougher to get a motorcycle operator's licence in British Columbia, Transportation Minister Alex Fraser announced Fri day From March 1, motorcy clists holding learners’ per mits will be required to ride for their first two weeks un der the supervision and with in view of a licensed adult motorcyclist. They must ride during, daylight, without passengers, and at speeds under 60 kilometres an hour except on freeways. After at least 14 days of practice, a learner will be re quired to take a novice skill test at a motor vehicle licence office. This test will check pro cedures like starting the en gine, stopping quickly at low speeds and riding through a series of balance and co ordination exercises. On passing the test, super vision will no longer be re quired but the learner would still not be fully licensed. At least 30 days of further prac tice would be required before the final examination This will include a slalom starting on a hill and riding in quarters sudden There also will be an observed street ride close ‘stops in traf fie