Senate Asserted Rights Over Amendments In Various Bills
The Senate passed third readings on measures to create a trade and industry commission and to amend the Natural Products Marketing Act Criminal Code and Farmers Creditors Arrangement Act. It referred a fishermen long term mortgage credit bill to banking and commerce. The chamber joined with the Commons in mourning the governor general’s tenure and asserted its prerogative to amend or reject measures from the Commons, with limited exception for money bills. Twenty two amendments to the trade commission bill aimed to strengthen practicability and constitutional standing, including sanctions for disobedience and potential prosecution. The Farmers' Creditors Arrangement Act Amendment linking British Columbia and provincial governor in council proclamation was noted as enabling BC to decide its course.
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Ottawa
Senate
Do Trade and Industry Commission
Nutral Products Marketing Act
Farmers’ Creditors Arrangement Act
Banking and
Commons
Meighen
House of Commons
Banking and Commerce Committee
The
Trade Commission
Farmers’ Creditors Arrangement
British Columbia
Dominion
Dandurand
Moisture Favorable for Canadian Crops Across Regions
Dominion bureau of statistics reports overall adequate moisture for most areas in Canada, with dryness mainly on Vancouver Island and parts of British Columbia Alberta and Saskatchewan. Crops lag slightly due to late season growth but conditions are improving with recent rains aiding grain crops in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Grasshoppers and pests are present but control efforts effective. summer fallow about half complete and pastures in good condition.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Vancouver Island
British Columbia
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Prairie Provinces
Manitoba
Bishop forbids seances in London churches
The Bishop of London Rt Rev A F Winnington Ingram ordered that any church in his diocese not be used for seances. He warned parishioners against spiritualism as unauthorized and dangerous, saying it dishonors the dead and wastes the living's time.
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London
A. F. Winnington Ingram
Ottawa Senate condemns signing racket under new amendment
A new racket involving signing books or sheets and contributing $1.00 or similar sums to gain higher returns is declared an offence under a Criminal Code amendment adopted by the senate banking and commerce committee. Operators may be fined up to $500 under the amendment.
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Ottawa
Senate Banking and Commerce Committee
Dairy Milk Bonus For July In Ottawa
Ottawa finance minister announced a July dairy bonus of 1.44 cents per pound for farmers delivering milk to cheese factories. Funded from a $1,000,000 pool to stabilize prices and discourage shifting from cheese to butter. First payments to be issued in July via cheese factories.
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Ottawa
Robert Weir
House of Commons
Japanese Steamer Sinks Off Osaka After Collision
A fog bound inland sea collision near Osaka claimed 104 lives. The Midori Maru with holiday passengers rammed the freighter Senzan Maru and sank immediately. Rescue boats saved 91 of 166 passengers and 56 of 85 crew. 11 bodies recovered including three women and an infant.
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Osaka
Japan
Wheat Marketings Down in Prairie Provinces
Wheat marketings in the prairie provinces for the week ended June 21 totaled 1,704,259 bushels, down 997,227 from the prior week and 947,005 from the same week last year, according to the Dominion bureau of statistics report.
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Ottawa
Prairie Provinces
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canadian Pacific Ships Glasgow Replacement
Sir E W Beatty announced during the Cunarder Queen Mary inspection that the Canadian Pacific Steamships will replace its older liner with a giant new ship to Glasgow.
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Glasgow
Canadian Pacific Steamships
E. W. Beatty
Queen Mary
Trade treaty signed between Canada and Poland
Premier R B Bennett announced in the House that a trade treaty with Poland has been signed and a copy was tabled in the Commons. The measure aims to expand commercial ties and reduce barriers between the two countries.
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Ottawa
R. B. Bennett
House of Commons
Canada
Poland
May Resignation Hint Shakes Ottawa Senate
Senator John McLean of Souris plans to resign his Upper House seat due to illness. The move would create the seventeenth vacancy in the Senate, with Hon J A Macdonald of Prince Edward Island named as a leading successor candidate.
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Ottawa
Senate
John McLean
Souris
McLean
J. A. Macdonald
Bennett
Prince Edward Island
MASS BUYING PROBE EXPENSES ARE SUBMITTED
Ottawa reports the mass buying commission cost the Dominion treasury about $475 000 and that a large sum linked to tax dodgers may have been turned into the finance department. Opposition MP William Golding criticizes commission pay and delays in auditing firm accounts. The minister says fees were not under his department and the commission settled its own accounts.
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Ottawa
Dominion Treasury
R. B. Hanson
Trade and Commerce
House of Commons
Finance Department
William Golding
Lib
South Huron
Norman Sommer
Hanson
Sam Factor
Toronto South Centre
Clarkson
Gordon
Dilworth
Guilfoyle
Nash
Heavy Rains Trigger Floods Across B C Regions
British Columbia officials report heavy rains swelling rivers and creeks to new flood levels in the Kootenay and Okanagan districts. The Mission River at Kelowna broke all flood records amid ongoing damage to highways and bridges.
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Nelson
B.C
Kootenay
Okanagan
British Columbia
Mission River
Kelowna
Coast Province
Mission
Penticton
Kamloops
New Wheat Board Bill Outlined by Ottawa Committee
John Vallance of the Liberal party explained the proposed wheat board bill to a House committee that rewrote it. He described a 70 cent per bushel minimum price, with producers earning extra if the board profits, and noted the bill makes the board permanent unless Parliament acts to end it.
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Ottawa
New Wheat Board
House
John Vallance
Lib
South Battleford
Vallance
House of Commons Renews Radio Commission Term
The House of Commons returned to consider a correction in the bill extending the Canadian Radio Commission life to March 31, 1936. An amendment in the senate would have ended the radio act and public ownership on that date.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
Canadian Radio Commission
Senate
Kipling Early Works Auction Receives Modest Sale
About 310 Kipling editorials and poems from early writing appeared in newspapers and were sold at auction for £230, roughly $1,150, reflecting modest interest in the vintage pieces.
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London
Rudyard Kipling
Tariff Revision Urged by Pattullo in Prince Rupert
Premier T. D. Pattullo urged a British North America Act revision in a luncheon talk at Prince Rupert. He said Canada broadly recognizes the need, including Ontario and Quebec, for fair tariff adjustments and clearer revenue formulas to reduce overlapping taxes and ease land taxation.
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Prince Rupert
B.C
Dominion
T. D. Pattullo
Canada
Ontario
Quebec
British Columbia
Pattullo
Britain Presses to Avert War in Ethiopia and Italy
London reports strenuous British efforts to avert war between Italy and Ethiopia as Parliament debates possible cession of Somaliland to secure peace. Anthony Eden proposes a tentative exchange for an Italian settlement, while MPs scrutinize the government’s handling and the fate of the League of Nations.
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London
Great Britain
Italy
Ethiopia
League of Nations
League
Britain
Russia
Germany
Commons
Anthony Eden
League of Nations Affairs
Benito Mussolini
Rome
British Somaliland
Malcolm MacDonald
Eden
Mussolini
Air liner reported lost near Isle of Wight
A British air liner en route from the Channel Islands to England vanished after sending SOS calls. A destroyer and Royal Air Force flying boats searched the Channel without success, but a surface oil patch about 10 miles from shore hinted at the fate of two aboard, Pilot Captain Ogden, 30, and passenger Grainger.
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Portsmouth
Eng
Royal Air Force
Isle of Wight
Ogden
Grainger
England
Channel Islands
Floods and Storms Ravage Western Canada Crowds amid Deluge
Western Canada endures worst floods in 25 years with rains across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. Bridges fall rail lines derailed and farms flooded as residents abandon homes. A two year old boy Arthur Godsworth remains missing after heavy rains and floods. power outages and damaged dams strain Dauphin facilities. Despite devastation the region sees green growth amid the flood aftermath.
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Winnipeg
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Peace River
Alberta
British Columbia
Slave Lake
Grandview
Borketon
Arthur Godsworth
Canadian National Railways
Alex
Dykun
Gilbert Plains
Dauphin
Man
Postal Service Problem Saskatoon
J B Corley Calgary district postal superintendent tells postmasters at a Saskatoon convention that ex-service men preference in hiring should be reconsidered to protect efficiency. He notes aging veterans and calls for Ottawa and veterans to reassess the issue while urging local meetings to discuss promotion systems.
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Saskatoon
Canada
J. B. Corley
Calgary
Postmasters
Technical Collegiate
Post Office
Ottawa
New Air Mail Service London to Australia and Africa
The British government announced new air mail plans creating an air service from London to Australia and to the Union of South Africa via Egypt.
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Bombay
London
Australia
Union of South Africa
Egypt
Vesuvius Eruption Shakes Naples as Cone Fragment Soars
Mount Vesuvius erupted with a loud blast as a cone fragment was hurled into the air. The Naples observatory released a statement downplaying danger, while residents expressed alarm.
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Naples
Mount Vesuvius
Vesuvius
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