Annual Meeting of the Hamiota Agricultural Society
The Hamiota Agricultural Society held its annual meeting at the Orange Hall on November 16 with good attendance. President T. J. Strachan and directors reported satisfactory finances and ongoing improvements to buildings and grounds. Local officials Harvey Jones and N. C. McKay spoke, and officers were reelected for 1947. Receipts show a balance from 1945 of 351.71 and 36.00 in membership fees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamiota Agricultural Society
Orange Hall
G. Killoh
T. J. Strachan
Harvey Jones
N. C. McKay
Manitoba Extension Service
Flour Subsidy Cuts Wheat Price by $1.03
The article reports that the Line Elevators Association argues the domestic wheat subsidy is $1.03 per bushel, not 30 cents, urging removal of the subsidy from Western farmers immediately. It cites a telegram to Prime Minister W L Mackenzie King and notes the Canadian Wheat Board's export pricing affecting domestic wheat and plans to remove the subsidy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion Minister of Agriculture
W. L. MacKenzie King
North-West Line Elevators Association
Minister of Agriculture
Canada
J. G. Gardiner
Dominion
Line Elevator Company
Canadian Wheat Board
United Kingdom
Wheat price row urges fairer farmer payout
The Canadian Wheat Board is urged to set the current wheat value at 2.28 per bushel instead of 1.55, arguing farmers should receive true value for wheat supplied to mills. It contends consumer subsidies should come from the Dominion Treasury, not from growers, and references the North West Line Elevator Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Wheat Board
Wheat Board
Government of Canada
Canada
Dominion Treasury
The
North-West Line Elevator Association
Ernest Brown Elected Councillor in Hamiota Village
Ernest Brown won the councillor race in Hamiota Village for a one year term with 187 votes to 91 for Charles Penny. Brown succeeds Councillor Max McConnell who resigned for health reasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Brown
Hamiota
Brown
Ernest
Penny
Charles
Max McConnell
Douglas Emerson elected Councillor for Ward 5 Hamiota
Douglas Emerson won the Ward 5 councillor race in the Rural Municipality of Hamiota. He will succeed Councillor McConnell, who did not seek reelection, after last Friday's voting.Wilf Hogeland and Andrew Little were also nominees in the race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas Emerson
Hamiota
Emerson
Doug
Hogeland
Wilf
Little
Andrew
McConnell
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Hamiota Echo
C. W. Venables
W. H. Josey
An. National
McConnell Bros
Mercury
Boys’ & Girls
MNS Ice
Women’s Institute
Annes
Aberdeen Angusheise
P.O.W
Art McEwing
Farmer Fiddlers
McConnell’s Hall
Bob
Harry
Ariendly
Crown Life Counsellor
Harry Cooke
Currie Bidg
Winnipeg
S. G. Macnicol
Crown Livestablished Insurance Company
Toronto
General Motors
Winterizing Qualuder
Choss
Caldwell Motors
Chevrolet
Oldsmobile
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