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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 09, 1948
Page
2
The article discusses how European and Asian congestion fuels unrest and hunger. It notes scarce suitable lands, ongoing attention to resettlement, and the difficulty of moving large populations to sparsely populated regions due to climate, accessibility, and soil issues.
UNESCO called a conference of seven American and three European nations with observers to discuss turning the Amazon River basin, a 2.7 million square mile largely uninhabited region, toward human use. The area is accessible to the Atlantic via the Amazon River, navigable by sea-going ships for 2,500 miles.
Delegates from six Amazon border nations Bolivia Brazil Ecuador Colombia Peru and Venezuela attend the meeting along with observers from FAO ILO and WHO. The plan aims to assemble information about the jungle region seen as a future world development area with potential to address major current problems.
Red Deer Alberta reports negotiations are under way for a site for a multi million dollar pulp mill. A Seattle firm has begun talks with the city to secure a quarter section of land within city limits for the mill site.
In the two years ending 1947, 75,439 British assisted emigrants went to Canada, 22,604 to Australia, 11,546 to New Zealand and 37,269 to South Africa. Viscount Addison, Lord Privy Seal, addresses the Lords. Beavers use tails to signal on water.
A collage of light jokes and quips about dress mishaps towels on a Pullman trip Indian terms squaw versus squawkers, a child’s pun on Umbrellastan, Sambo on a payroll, and a father’s ledger mystery with a cat curiosity joke.
L B Thomson named director of the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration after guiding soil conservation at Swift Current and Manyberries. The New Zealand native, 48, has long aided farmers and agrologists and helped win farmers' trust during the drought years. He succeeds George Spence and plans wider scope for P F R A as Canada’s major conservation and irrigation agency.
A moderate rise in nesting waterfowl this spring in Canada appears in most regions compared with 1947, per migratory bird meeting in Regina. Yet northern conditions and late-season changes could erase gains. high water levels hinder production while aerial, ground, and canoe surveys map thousands of miles across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Hudson's Bay company and Continental oil company plan joint exploration and development in Alberta. The two firms will operate as Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas company limited with hundreds of thousands of acres under exploration permits.
REGINA The Brandon to Nelson motorcade advocating a southern route for the Trans Canada highway has been postponed until September due to flood conditions in British Columbia. New dates for the Nelson convention are September 3 and 4.
Vancouver reports wartime restrictions barring Japanese from protected areas west of the Cascades will end March 31, 1949 per Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell. He expects the return movement to British Columbia to be small. Medical psychology is less than a century old.
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