Canada appoints board of audit under 1925 act
The Government has appointed the board of audit created by Parliament in 1925. It will comprise Gordon W. Scott of Montreal and K. Jay Howven of Toronto. The board, under the Minister of Finance, can probe financial affairs of any public body funded by treasury appropriations or grants. It may recruit staff, holds royal commission powers, and reports to the Minister who submits them to Parliament. Members serve up to five years and are paid up to $3 annually. The act allows Treasury Board to expand its scope to other Treasury funded undertakings in the public interest.
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Ousata
Bas
Board of Audit
Gordon W. Scott
Montreal
K. Jay Howven
Toronto
Minister of Finance
Canadian National Railways
Canadian Government
Merchant Marine
Investgate
Treasury of Canada
Treasury
Treasury Board
Treasury Boans
Tolmie Chosen Unanimous Leader of BC Conservatives
Hon S F Tolmie, MP for Victoria city since 1917 and former federal agriculture minister, was elected permanent leader of the British Columbia Conservative Party by unanimous vote at the provincial convention. Born 1867, Tolmie is a Ontario Veterinary College graduate, a farmer and livestock breeder, and a native son with deep rural ties.
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British Columbia
Pacific Coast
Hhouse of Commons
Victoria City
Ile
Ontario Veterinary College
Telmie
Franco German Boundary Commission Proposed
The Evening News reports an indirect official outcome of the imperial conference a Franco German boundary commission similar to American Canadian models would settle frontier questions Premier Mackenzie King submitted the idea to Lord Londonderry who was impressed and offered practical support through the British ambassador in Berlin
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London
Evening News
Mackenzie King
Abernor
Berlin
Surplus Wheat Outlook in Argentina Below Peak Forecast
Buenos Aires reports a wheat surplus of 3,909,066 tons, seen as fair rather than bumper. Early threshing in the northern belt suggests satisfactory quality and yield despite lower-than-expected totals.
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Nuenos Aires
Disastrous Floods Kill Twenty in Roquebil Vere France
Twenty people die as Vesubie River torrent undermines foundations in Roquebil Vere Alpes Maritimes. More than a score of houses collapse under floodwater. Authorities report extensive damage and rescue operations continue in Nice and surrounding areas.
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Nice
France
Roquebil- Vere
Department
Alpes Maritimes
Vesubie
To Adopt New Methods Communication Edinburgh
Premier J. G. Coates announced New Zealand will study early use of personal contact between the Dominions and Great Britain as outlined in the Imperial conference report. The plan calls for special representatives to keep attached governments informed of policies for joint consideration.
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Edinburgh
Dominions
New Zealand
London
J. G. Coates
Toay
Great Britain
Premiers’ Committee
Bowser Retires From British Columbia Party Leadership
W. J. Bowser announces retirement from BC Conservative leadership race at a convention session. His friends say the decision aims to avoid a party split, noting he could have carried the convention by a small margin but wished to prevent internal rifts for the party's good.
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Kamloops
W. J. Dowser
British Columbia
Ceraily
Bowser
Mennonites Leave Canada for Paraguay Settlement Exodus Ends 50 Years Ties
About 250 Mennonites from Manitoba settlements began a long move to Paraguay South America citing dissatisfaction with Manitoba education laws. They will travel to New York then sail to their new home under a New York hind company. Leaders say more may follow if conditions in Paraguay suit them.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Paraguay
South America
New York
Germany Ready To Help Berlin
Former Chancellor Wirth declared in the Reichstag Germany would enter the League of Nations and promote stabilization of the French currency as national sacrifices. His remark that France must concede sparked thunderous applause as he urged Paris to prove its commitment to European solidarity.
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Berlin
Wirth
Reichstag
Germany
League of Nations
Grerman
France
Waterways Report On Great Lakes Development
Ottawa and Washington await a joint Canada United States engineers report on deep water development for the Great Lakes St Lawrence waterways. The board plans to present its findings to the Domin government once the study is complete.
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Ottawa
Canada
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence
Joint Board of Canadian and American Engineers
Domin
Saskatchewan Sells Bonds At Record Price
Premier Gardiner announces sale of Saskatchewan bonds at 4 3 per cent for 3 dollars each. Except for a July 1925 issue this is the best price in years. Dominion Securities Corporation of Toronto bought the issue.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Gardiner
Dominion Securities, Corporaton
Toronto
Lord Byng Farewell To Canadian Scouts
Lord Byng of Vimy delivered a farewell message to the Boy Scouts of Canada as the first general council met under Viscount Willingdon. He accepted the post as chief scout for the Dominion and praised progress. Canadian Scout membership now tops 40,000 with a congratulatory report from Sir Alfred Pickford.
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Byng of Vimy
Boy Scouts of Canada
Boy Scouts Association
Lord Byng
Viscount Willingdon
Dominion
Boy Scouts In
Canada
Sir Alfred Pickford
Imperial Boy Scout Association
Two Women Earn Aviators' Certificates at Stag Lane
Two women at the Stag Lane Aeroplane Club earned aviators certificates. Lady Bailey wife of Sir Abe Bailey and Miss Norah O'Brien passed in a two seater Moth after tests that included landing and taking off a figure eight flight and climbing to the required height before a dead engine landing.
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London
Stag Lane Aeroplane Club
Lady Bailey
Abe Bailey
Norah O'Brien
London Flying Club
Parliament Preparing for Early Session in Ottawa
Ottawa reports cabinet sessions proceeding daily ahead of Parliament opening. The speech from the throne due December 10 is under preparation after telegram talks between Premier King and his ministers. An imminent announcement is expected on the steamship contract completing Canada’s West Indies treaty obligations.
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Ottawa
King
Canada
West Indies
Bermuda
British Guiana
British Honduras
Soviet Foreign Minister Denies New Pan Asiatic League
On the eve of his departure for Germany George Tchitcherin said his Odessa meeting with Tevfik Rushdi Bey was not about creating Pan Asiatic or any league and that no agreement against other powers was made.
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Moscow
Germany
George Tchitcherin
Tevfik Rushdi Bey
Odessa
Appointed Translator at Geneva for League of Nations
J. FE. A. Johnstone of Vancouver has been appointed translator in the International Labour Office at Geneva.
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Ottawa
J. FE. A. Johnstone
Vancouver
International Labor Office
League of Nations
Geneva
Canada Wheat Pool Raises Initial Oats Payment
Regina reports the central board of the Canadian Wheat Pool voted to increase the initial payment for pool oats by six cents per bushel. No. 2 CW oats in Fort William will now be 49 cents per bushel effective November 29 at country elevators. Members who already received 34 cents will get the extra on surrender of growers' certificates. return certificates promptly.
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Regina
Central Board of the
Canadian Wheat Pool
Fort William
Pacific Cable Dispute Settled at Imperial Conference
Ottawa reports a new Pacific Cable agreement shifting powers from Britain to the Dominion governments. Canada and Australasia share operation profits with an expanded board representation. A new Vancouver Island to New Zealand link doubles cable capacity now in service.
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Ottawa
London
Canada
Australasia
Vancouver Island
New Zealand
Australia
Leonid Krassin Dead in London After Illness
Soviet charge d affaires in London Leonid Krassin died on November 24 in London. Friends said he had been fighting pernicious anemia and appeared in good spirits recently. At the Foreign Office tribute was paid to a sensible diplomat who would have improved Russo British relations. His value lay in earning respect of the British financial world.
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Krassin
Foreign Office
Downing Street
M. Krassin
Russia
Great Britain
Moscow
Australia Likely To Establish Wheat Pool
George W. Robertson of Regina and Saskatchewan Wheat Pool officials say Australia plans a wheat pool system similar to Canada. They note Australia already has voluntary pools and may adopt contract pools and a central selling agency, with less difficulty due to the absence of a grain exchange.
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Winnipeg
Australia
Canada
George W. Robertson
Regina
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Robertson
Antipodes
India seeks action against American films plague in India
The Times of India editorial condemns American films as a plague causing peril to Indian society. Hindoo legislators demand government steps to stop misrepresentation while authorities admit no remedy without ruthless action.
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London
Imperial Conference
America
India
Times of India
Hindoo
May Withdraw Allied Control Paris
Early withdrawal of inter allied control of Germany's military affairs is seen as certain in French circles. The French and German governments reportedly agree on means for this change, with periodic supervision to be taken over by the League of Nations.
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Paris
Germany
League of Nations
Electrified Eggs Enter British Market
Electrified eggs guaranteed to last years and cut living costs have been introduced on the British market. The invention sterilizes eggs by an electrically heated oil bath, enabling eggs to be kept almost indefinitely.
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Liverpool
Rail unions prepare wage dispute talks after referendum
W G Lee of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen said no strike is planned yet as conductors trainmen and yardmen rejected a conciliation board award. Locomotive Engineers say they would honor contracts but regard safety if a strike occurs. The referendum results were sent to Canada's Labour department.
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Montreal
W. G. Lee
Brotherhood of Railroad
Canada
Lee
Moncton
George A. Stone
Brotherhood of Locomsive Engineers
New Brunswick
Canadian Railways
Stone
Federal
Department of Labor
No Change in Veto Right of Gov General
London Premier Baldwin replied in the House of Commons that the inter Imperial relations committee did not deal with the Governors General veto power over Dominion measures or their reserve for the Crown. He said no change in veto rights is contemplated. He could not assure Imperial Parliament would be consulted on altering judicial appeals from India and Dominions.
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London
Baldwin
House of Commons
Imperial Conference
Privy Council
India
Dominions
Pirates Attack on Steamer Wathoi Strikes Fear in Seas
Victims include Father W A Fletcher and seven Canadian nuns who survived a raid by 21 pirate gangs aboard the steamer Wathoi on a Kongamoon to Yeeungkong voyage. A Chinese soldier guard, purser, cashier and clerk were killed, and the vessel looted. Chinese passengers were taken ashore for ransom while supplies and cargo were seized.
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Iong Kong
W. A. Fletcher
Wathoi
Kongamoon
Yeeungkong
Waihol
Greenland Receives Its First Radio Concert
A wireless message from Godhaven, Greenland, thanks George A. Wendt and company officials for organizing a first Greenland radio concert. Messages of music and relatives’ greetings traveled from Godhaven to Iceland, then Copenhagen, picked up on a short wave set.
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Montreal
Greenland
George A. Wendt
Hero
Pittsburgh
Godhaven
Iceland
Copenhagen
Mr. Wendt
Messrs
Finney
Lloyd Craig
Mackenzie
Shrine at Ste Anne de Beaupre to use new cathedral basement
Redemptorist fathers in charge of the shrine announce religious services will be held in the basement of the new cathedral under construction. The basilica section will be ready for pilgrims next summer. A statue of Ste Anne identical to the one destroyed by fire will arrive next month. No relics were lost in the earlier fire.
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Quebec
Ste. Anne de Beaupre
Ste Anne
Massey Named Canada’s Minister to United States
London reports Royal approval of Hon Vincent Massey as first Canadian minister senipotentiary to the United States. Massey, 39, a Toronto and Oxford graduate, was appointed by order in council in Ottawa on November 10 and served in the Mackenzie King cabinet in 1925.
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London
Vincent Massey
United States
Massey
Washington Post
Ottawa
Heas
University of Toronto
Oxford
Mackenzie King
Trade isolation urged against farmer ills by chamber
The United States Chamber of Commerce foreign commerce department warns against trade isolation as a cure for farmers’ ills. It cites agricultural export prices from 1910 to 1914 and rejects the idea that farmers are passive to foreign buyers or that prices are fixed at Liverpool.
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Washington
United States
United States Chamber of Commerce
Foreign Commerce Department
Liverpool
Am erican Indians No Longer Vanish in U S Population
Contrary to belief, American Indians are not disappearing. New data show their numbers in the United States are increasing, indicating growth and persistence of this ethnic group within the national population.
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United States
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Canadian Pacific
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