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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 14, 1948
Page
2
This article outlines plans in Britain to create a Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges to coordinate and boost teacher and pupil exchanges within the Empire and with other countries. It notes wartime curtailments and currency restrictions but expects ongoing activity and future growth.
Canadian teachers exchanging with United Kingdom colleagues have long been common and successful. Such exchanges bring fresh viewpoints and travel teaching experience, benefiting students who visit other schools. The new organization aims to advance exchange schemes and place Canada among benefitting nations. Tolerance and understanding other life ways are increasingly important in contemporary issues.
Canberra reports that no Australian, soldier or civilian, may bring a Japanese wife to Australia. Immigration Minister A. A. Calwell said Australians who marry Japanese partners must live with them in Japan. He added no passport obstacles will block leave for such soldiers.
A curated sequence of maxims on speech. Oliver Wendell Holmes warns that silence and restraint have equal weight to speaking. Isaac Barrow urges self discipline in conversation as a sign of true goodness. George Sala notes the difficulty of omitting the wrong words. Mary F Eddy cautions against excess talk driven by ego. Lord Chesterfield advises brief talk to avoid exhausting listeners.
Ducks Unlimited Inc allocates 525 000 for wild duck breeding ground improvements in Western Canada this summer. Morton W. Smith cites the move as the largest appropriation in 11 years, part of a long range program to improve 3 million acres in Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Birtle Man fat stock show and sale held its 20th annual event with 135 entries. Grand champion owned by Widdicombe Bros Foxwarren and reserve by William Hacking Selsgirth sold to T Eaton Company for 35 and 25 cents a pound respectively. Sale averaged 17 cents per pound totaling 16100 dollars.
In Sydney a solicitor accepts guardianship of 60 lizards from a friend who died while studying reptiles. He says his past handling of 20 foot pythons proves the lizards pose no problem.
A collage of short jokes and quips on marriage work life and daily concerns. A mother’s rheumatism, a foreman testing laborers, a magistrate’s quip about pay day, a joke about counting to 100 for sleeplessness, and a character reader gag interweave in a dated humor column.
New York report quotes Canadian Finance Minister Abbott declaring a boom in Canada with gross national production rising from 11.6 billion in 1945 to over 13 billion last year and 5.1 billion in 1958. He warned of economic strain and said a future budget may show another large surplus. He questioned if higher interest rates reduce inflation.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports 1947 cash income at 1.991 billion dollars, up about 14 percent from 1946 as prices paid by farmers rose nearly 19 percent. Alberta leads gains over 20 percent with Quebec and Ontario also rising, while Nova Scotia falls slightly. Regional farm incomes climb with Alberta 545 million and Saskatchewan 434 million in 1947. Output up in some crops but overall production below 1946. higher prices and wheat certificates payments cited.
Washington reports that federal officials will delay any move to regulate duck shooting by flyways rather than by zones. Fall seasons are set by established regional zones nationwide. Interior Secretary Krug told Ducks Unlimited that flyway regulation is a new concept and must be approached cautiously.
Clinton Mass board of selectmen voted to abolish by laws that imposed fines for failing to maintain horse stalls and for violations of hitching post regulations. The item references historic by law changes and notes a separate fact about Elizabeth Mallett publishing the first daily newspaper in England in 1702.
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