Canada must restore British wheat demand at Imperial Conference
Dr. W. W. Swanson urged Canada to restore British preference for Canadian wheat to help markets amid temporary low prices. He noted British buyers should increase purchases, warned of Russian grain dumping, and defended Bennett’s tariff preference as a way to mobilize free trade ideals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Ont
Great Britain
W. W. Swanson
FL. B. Bennett
Canada
Swanson
Department of Economics
University of Saskatchewan
British Isles
Dr. Swanson
England
Bennett
Britain
Soviet Republic
London
Occidental
British Columbia
East
Imperial Conference praised as foundation for future empire growth
Dr. E Swanson of the University of Saskatchewan praised the Imperial Conference in Toronto. He said it laid a foundation for significant developments for Canada and the Empire and credited Premier Richard Bennett with a remarkable personal triumph in securing Ottawa talks next year. He also noted potential wheat market upswings due to Russia's 60 million bushel export impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toropte
Ont
Dominion of Canada
Empire
E . Swanson
Department of Economics
University of Saskatchewan
Richard B. Bennett
Toronto
Saskatchewan
Swanson
Dominions
Ottawa
Bennett
Prospector Dies on North Manitoba Trail
Ingruard Curley a 23 year old Danish prospector died on the northland trail after becoming separated from three companions while mushers moved from Central Manitoba Mines to Great Falls in north eastern Manitoba. He was found alive badly frozen after rescuers built a large fire and gave first aid but died in their arms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Man
Ingruard Curley
Curley
Manitoba
Great Falls
Sidney Lumber Company Profit Sharing Trial Report
Victoria B C employees share profits at Sidney Lumber Company Limited in a three month trial. One hundred twenty five workers receive proceeds in proportion to their wages, establishing a Northwest Pacific Coast first in profit sharing across mills at Sidney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
B.C
Northwestern Pacific
Sidney Lumber Company, Limited
Sidney
Northwest Pacific Coast
Poultry Cars to Load Dressed Poultry in Saskatchewan
D. Graham announced Saskatchewan Co-Operative Egg and Poultry Pool will place poultry cars at 91 points across the province for loading dressed poultry. Producers should deliver to central assembly points before December 10 as eastern market cars depart by that date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Regina
Sask
Saskatchewan
D. Graham
Saskatchewan Co-Operative Egg and Poultry Pool
Tire Egg and Poultry Pool
Movable Partitions Sought for Railway Cattle Cars
Canadian Livestock unions petition for two or more movable partitions in stock cars. Hearing set by the Railway Commission for December 5 in Ottawa. They argue current car designs cause bruising broken limbs and suffocation among cattle during shipment and that partitions would reduce injury and enable mixed livestock shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Ont
Railway Commission
Eskimo Rescued After 42 Hour Ice Bid For Safety
Eskimo hunter Joe was marooned on a small ice island off Barrow Alaska while hunting a polar bear. He fashioned a raft from ice and used a rifle stock as a paddle, enduring 20 to 30 degrees below zero and frost bite before reaching shore ice exhausted and hungry after a 42 hour ordeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Barrow
Alaska
Joe
Safety clause adopted at Geneva meeting
The preparatory disarmament commission approved a safety clause allowing a threatened country to suspend treaty restrictions to arm itself. Proposed by U.S. representative Hugh S. Gibson, it faced Russian opposition. The commission also created a permanent disarmament body to administer the treaty with seat in Geneva, but its composition remained unresolved among major powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Switzerland
Preparatory
Russia
Permanent Commission
General Conference
Great Britain
United States
France
Italy
Japan
China
Turkey
Finland
Brilliant Military Career of Major-General Williams Honoured
Major-General W. A. S. Williams, honored as an honorary life member of the Royal Canadian Northwest Mounted Police Veterans Association, began his brilliant career as a young man in the frontier forces of the North West Territories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. S. Williams
Royal Canadian Northwest Mounted Police Veterans’ Association
Wiliams
Frontier Forces
North West Territories
Diversified Farming Says Western Farmer Should Not Put All Eggs In One Basket
G I Christie president of Ontario Agricultural College told the Canadian Independent Telephone Association in Toronto on Navy 26 that Western Canadian farmers relying on wheat risk ruin. He urged diversification to include livestock and noted Canada could break into bacon markets currently controlled by Denmark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Western Canada
G. I. Christie
Ontario Agricultural College
Guelph
Canadian Independent Telephone Association
Navy
Dr. Christie
Canada
Canadian Pictures For Britain by Saskatoon Biologist Dr Saunders
Dr L G Saunders professor of biology at the university has been chosen as one of ten Canadian pictorial photographers to contribute to a Royal Photographic Society of England collection. He has worked extensively for the Federal Government in Prince Albert National Park and conducted an intricate survey of the park fisheries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saskatoon
Sask
L. G. Saunders
Royal Photographic Society of England
Saunders
Prince Albert National Park
Ottawa Cabinet Studies Five-Year Staff Pension Boost
Ottawa cabinet considers adding five years to the superannuation of Interior Department staff facing retirement after transfer to the prairie provinces. Resources under Ottawa Government control, with work shifting to the Federal department, influence the pension question.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa, Ont
Department of the Interior
Prairie Provinces
Ottawa
Federal Department
Fatal gun trap accident near Beausejour claims Lac Du Bonnet woodcutter
Rene Lussier of Lac Du Bonnet was killed while wading through frozen bush near Beausejour when his foot set off a gun trap. A companion carried the wounded man to a nearby homestead as the trap fired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beausejour
Rene Lussier
Lac du Bonnet
Here
Lussier
May Try Atlantic Trip Being Considered
Lisbon hosts the Dornier DO-X large flying boat as Dr. Claude Dornier and Mrs. Dornier leave Corunna for Madrid en route to Paris and Berlin. Officials in Corunna say the Atlantic flight is not abandoned though no official expression is given and a year end start seems unlikely. Portuguese authorities cite Canary Islands and Cape Verde routes to New York as more feasible than Azores Bermuda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisbon
Portugal
Claude Dornier
Dornier
Corunna
Spain
Madrid
Paris
Berlin
siMer
Cagoe Coutinho
South Atlantic Ocean
Azores
Bermuda
Canary Island
Cape Verde Islands
New York
Ottawa weighing new coal freight relief extension
Ottawa seeks a further extension of the $6.75 a ton reduced freight rate for Alberta coal moved to central Canadian markets. No official announcement has been made, but government officials are examining extending the subsidy which covers railway losses on west to central shipments into spring 1932.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Ont
Alberta
Canada
Move for Reduction of Flour Prices in Canada
Ottawa reports ongoing government efforts to lower bread costs as flour price actions lag. Minister of Labour Gideon Robertson and investigators eye milling firms to cut flour prices, noting a potential nationwide inquiry if cooperation fails. Aims to keep bread affordable amid 3 million loaves daily consumption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Ont
Dominion
Gideon D. Robertson
Combines Investigation Branch
Canada
Department of Labor
Robertson
Stabilization of Prices Pinpointed by Farm Party
Delegates from United Farmers of Canada and provincial groups urged government price stabilization based on production costs. A two day prairie Ontario agrarian conference backed pegging prices for agricultural goods and a broader probe into cost relations, proposing a Dominion bureau of standards for manufactured items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saskatoon
Sask
Ontario
The
Prairies
Bureau of Standards
United Farmers of Canada
Saskatchewan
United Farmers of Alberta
Ottawa
Alberta
United Farmers of Manitoba
Standards Bureau
United Farmers of
Manitoba
Canadian Council of Agriculture
Faith In Saskatchewan Optimism At Royal Winter Fair
Hon. W. C. Buckle Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture spoke at the Royal Winter Fair luncheon predicting a resilient response to 1930 crop woes. He noted 20 000 acres of farmland failed and that 1 500 000 dollars is being spent on rural farm relief as the province faces hardship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Will Drill For Gas Regina Saskatchewan
The C O Moore interests will start drilling for gas in Saskatchewan at once if the city franchise is ratified by ratepayers. The announcement came at a banquet by the Darlington Oil and Gas Company in Regina. Alderman Charles Gardiner chaired the meeting attended by about 25 businessmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Regina
Sask
C. O. Moore
Saskatchewan
Darlington Oil and Gas Company
Ald
Chas. Gardiner
Silk Mill Proposed near Vancouver Port Moody
A silk mill erection project by Western Canadian Silks Limited near Port Moody 15 miles east of Vancouver with a $250000 cost and employment for 100 workers. Raw silk materials would be imported from Japan and China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
B.C
Port Moody
Western Canadian Silks, Limited
Japan
China
Mumps Outbreak Hits Ottawa Field
Ottawa reports 362 residents ill with mumps since November 1. Civic health board secretary R. J. Smith says the disease is mild and a 21 day quarantine is mandatory in each case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Ont
R. J. Smith
Civic Health Board
Imperial School of Air Pilotage proposed in Britain
A scheme to establish an Imperial School of Air Pilotage for training and testing future professional pilots is submitted to the British Air Ministry by a special parliamentary sub-committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
Imperial School of Air Pilotage
British Air Ministry
Starnes Re Elected Leader Of St John Ambulance
Colonel Cortlandt Starnes RCMP veteran officer has been re elected chairman of the St John Ambulance Association in Ottawa Ontario.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
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Dr. Swansen
North
Canadian Pictures
Royal Photographic Society
Canadian Pacific Railway
Frank Shyako
William Strynaka
Willingdon
Hilbert de Leeuw
Kamloops
British Columbia Club
Hon. Co. W. Buckle
Silk Mill
Far Coast
Starnes
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