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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 25, 1931
Page
3
Ottawa hearing notes the Relief Work Program as Minister Gideon Robertson cites Britain's unemployment scheme and Canada’s steps like $20 million in employment creation and tariff adjustments. Senator Forke pushes ten year amortization for Western farmers debts amid western distress over high loan rates and 60 cent wheat forecasts.
A Norwegian steamer Hera was wrecked on rocks near Hammarfest Norway during a violent storm. Three passengers including a five year old girl and four crew members perished while fifty five people survived by taking to boats and reaching Hanoysund. three crew members were women stewardesses.
Rancher Roderick MacLeay of High River Alberta says Canada will have no exportable cattle surplus this year if domestic meat consumption remains at last year’s level. He notes that January 1 1931 cold storage beef stood at 11.546 million pounds versus 23 million a year earlier, with a five year average near 22.57 million. He spoke in Ottawa with Minister Robert Weir and George Ross of Lethbridge as part of Western Beef Producers’ conference on exports.
Ottawa reports no expansion in Canada air services for the current year and says air budget appropriations will largely hold steady. The air vote has risen annually, but officials demand rigid economy while not reducing Royal Canadian Air Force duties or current air mail services.
Ottawa Parliament considers first reading of a bill by Armand Lavergne to modify jury trial procedure. The bill shifts defence to address after crown, restricts judges to questions of law, and proposes a Quebec provision for trial judges as peace court clerks.
The King of Siam is expected to pass through the North Portal and Portal border towns on April 19 while traveling from Vancouver to Washington, D C. Minot dentist N B Livingstone invites the royal party to Minnesota Lake resort, recalling a 1922 meeting with the heir to the throne. The location of the customary salute remains undecided.
Ottawa case concerns seizure off British Columbia of four foreign vessels by Canadian fisheries patrol. Vessels Queen City Tillie Sunrise registered in Washington seized June 18 1930, and May registered in Alaska seized earlier. Judgment reserved.
Chiefs of the CPR and Canadian National promise to use Canadian coal wherever possible in talks with Nova Scotia officials and Minister Wesley Gordon. The minister said fuel board will study the submissions and push to extend Nova Scotia coal use farther west where feasible.
Fred J. Dixon, 50, former Manitoba legislature member and longtime labor figure, died March 18 at his Winnipeg home. Dixon resigned from the legislature in 1923 after a career beginning in 1914 as a Liberal and later serving as a Labor representative for Winnipeg amid extended illness.
London Ontario physician Wray Lloyd a Western Ontario graduate and Rockefeller Institute researcher contracts yellow fever from monkeys in New York. Doctors warn tropical disease is dangerous. Lloyd previously demonstrated calcium chloride stimulated rabbit hearts and nearly died when injected by his assistant.
The CNR radio system is authorized to broadcast the arrival and welcome of Earl of Bessborough governor general designate. His party reaches Halifax on Saturday April 4 at 7 a.m. MST and his first speech will be aired coast to coast via a chain stretching to Vancouver.
A Vancouver Island deputation urged Ottawa to set an adequate duty on foreign fuel oil to aid BC's fuel market. Prime Minister R. B. Bennett listened sympathetically and promised full government consideration before the session ends.
In London after two days of talks with British ministers and US envoys, the United States said it would not participate in drafting the Anglo French Italian naval accord. Washington regards the tripartite agreement as helpful to European armament problems and may back a Franco Italian settlement with possible British involvement.
The Winnipeg Labor Council asked the Dominion Government to employ only Manitoba labor at Fort Churchill and apply the Manitoba fair wage schedule. Minister R J Manion said Manitoba will receive a large share but not all due to need for specialists. Ottawa will deliver Canada's destroyer Saguenay around April 1 with tests remaining and a Canadian crew to man the vessel. In Athens Prof Brognard reports finding ruins believed to be the first Temple of Eros on a hill noted by Apusanias.
A scheme to supply all of Canada’s aluminum needs from a plant to be built in Choken Korea threatens Canada Japan trade relations. The plan has reached the formative stage and aims to control metal supply.
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