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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 06, 1931
Page
4
Canada shows growing self sufficiency in manufacturing and agriculture. Canadian exports rise as domestic production surpasses demand while wheat shipments via home ports surge. Foreign trade highlights include increased U S purchases and stronger shipments to the United Kingdom across multiple goods.
Prince of Wales at a Buenos Aires banquet urges British firms to send principal men and learn Spanish. He warns against hiding light under a bushel and stresses advertising with a joking line about early to rise and the need to advertise.
Canadian Pacific Railway completes the 8000 locomotive the world’s largest of its type built at Montreal’s Angus Shops. The 485000 pound engine with a 300000 pound tender measures 99 feet 3.75 inches, drives on ten 63 inch wheels and delivers 90000 pounds of tractive effort. It carries 12000 gallons of water 4350 gallons of fuel and uses a three pressure multi‑tube boiler with a 1700 psi firebox unit.
Commander Donald B. MacMillan plans a northern Labrador aerial survey and a side trip to Baffin Land as part of his Boston to London summer journey. He seeks to locate the lost Air France team of Charles Nungesser and Francis Coli, hoping the White Bird’s remains or clues surface. The mission also aims to open a potential northern air mail and passenger route for Great Northern Atlantic Airways with Charles F. Hocheville.
British Empire marketing board scientists prove fleas on sawflies reproduce their own parasites to assault foes. Ninety thousand infected sawflies were shipped from Fareham to Belleville Ontario for wheat fields in Western Canada. The process involved exposing grubs to smaller parasites in a Fareham zoo then propagating them under expert supervision.
A retired Kansas City businessman living in Florida planted a portable strawberry patch of 1905 plants in a greenhouse and has been picking berries since January, signaling a fresh idea in fruit cultivation.
Among Jasper National Park animals a pika, small like a Guinea pig with rounded ears, is noted for storing dried grasses for winter. Locals call it the haymaker, often found under rock with a miniature haystack of nearby plants.
Delegates at the Midwest section Bankers Association for Foreign Trade in Indiana were told by Case R. Howard of the Canadian Bank of Commerce that a new North America to Europe air route via Churchill Hudson Bay and Greenland is under consideration by British Canadian US German and French interests.
More than 1,000 reindeer were killed on a Swedish railway line last year with owners receiving about 10000 in compensation. Authorities planned safety reviews and future measures to reduce wildlife collisions on the line.
John Burke Ingram argues Canada faces crowded mental hospitals with 29 529 patients and rising costs. He urges psychopathic hospitals and outpatient clinics, explains the difference between insanity and mental deficiency, and praises the Canadian National Committee for Mental Hygiene for public education and pushing government action.
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