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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 21, 1933
Page
3
A Canadian program to accelerate bank credit and economic recovery is expected to be announced soon by Prime Minister R B Bennett. Plans include rural credit, construction revival, and higher farm product prices to boost employment and revenue.
Hon. H. H. Stevens urged eastern Ontario technical agriculturists to draft a policy and set minimum prices for top quality farm products. He stressed fairness to farmers distributors and consumers and expressed hope Canada will not move toward collectivized farming.
Toronto treasury officials announce a settlement with the executors of the late Sir Clifford Sifton. The government will receive close to $425,000 in succession duties after long disputed matters and threats of action to recover amounts.
Vancouver reports police seize opium valued at 1100 and arrest three Chinese after they landed from the City of Victoria. The arrest follows narcotics charges under the Narcotic Drugs Act. In Calgary, Jack Byers of the Western Stock Growers' Association says British demand for grain fed beef steers from Canada will rise next spring.
Ottawa Ont Western Canada expressed deep gratitude for relief consignments from Ontario and the maritime provinces sent by private groups. W J Loucks Conservative member for Rosetown Sask spoke here on the matter.
Secretary Roper announced Public Works Administration funding of 1.5 million dollars to build a seadrome one quarter the usual size, located 500 miles off the Atlantic coast for experimental testing.
In London the government announced replacing four smaller cruisers from the 1933 plan with two 9,000 ton ships and one 5,400 ton vessel. Sir Bolton Fyres-Monsell said the shift keeps total cruiser tonnage within the London naval treaty but risks lagging behind other powers in armament. Britain will build three cruisers rather than four to avoid inferior craft. The move follows concerns sparked by U.S. and other powers’ navies expanding cruiser programs.
In cooperation with the Canadian council of boys and girls clubs, the British Columbia Department of Agriculture sends four boys and two girls to Toronto for junior judging events at the Royal Winter Fair. The Vernon district girls form a poultry team while Kamloops and Fraser Valley boys lead calf and swine clubs. R. C. Sutton accompanies them. They depart for Toronto Thursday. in 1932 the Grand Forks poultry team won first place.
A portrait of the late Dr. Goldwin Smith by John Russell was discovered in the University club cellar in Toronto. The frame is wrecked the canvas punctured and severely marred by basement moisture. The artist valued the work at over $7 000.
Lord Greenwood born in Whitby Ont and known in Canada as Sir Ham ar Greenwood has been appointed honorary treasurer of the Conservative party. The post was vacated by Lord Ebbisham due to business and political duties.
At the Alaska Native Brotherhood annual convention delegates urged selling the southeastern Panhandle to Canada. Speakers argued the Dominion treats its Indians better than the United States.
Twenty five planes of the French Black Squadron flew from France across Africa and arrived here from Bidon Five, a Sahara gasoline station. Three ships remained to assist one with motor trouble.
Ottawa trade volume rose in October with a total of 101 303 153, up 7 582 533 from a year ago. Eight of twelve export items gained while four fell, led by unmanufactured nickel up 406 percent to 2 435 472 and plank and board up 208 percent. Partial copper, meat, and fish exports also surged alongside wheat flour and woodpulp.
Tony Wong, 24, a Chinese student aviator, fell from a high altitude near the Saskatoon aerodrome and suffered facial and leg injuries. The Saskatoon Aero Club aircraft was badly damaged and Wong was hospitalized. It was the club’s first mishap since resuming operations two years ago and the second accident on the Vance farm.
In London the father of Lieut Norman Baillie-Stewart rejects claims that his son confessed guilt after the court martial and five years penal servitude. Alfred Duff-Cooper, War Office secretary, said the prisoner confessed soon after conviction, while Col Wright calls the idea preposterous.
C. W. Bauer outlined a market scheme based on the British Act to empower a majority of organized growers to market a product and bind minority growers. Backed by the Ontario Department of Agriculture, the plan aims for nationwide application with strong support from growers in British Columbia, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Quebec.
Canadian raisers of durum wheat profit from the North Dakota embargo by shipping to Minneapolis. Grain men say only a limited durum is needed and demand will be met quickly by Canadian durum, potentially leaving North Dakota farmers without a market when the embargo ends.
Lord Macmillan and Sir Charles Addis praised Canadian bankers for their integrity at a Canadian Chamber of Commerce luncheon in London. The royal commission's recommended central bank was cited as a key but undecided policy. Ferguson, Thomas, and others urged awareness of Europe and the Americas amid world events.
The Liberal government of Thomas Dufferin Pattullo was sworn in by Lt Governor J W Fordham Johnson one hour after the retiring premier Simon Fraser Tolme and his cabinet tendered resignation. The new cabinet includes Pattullo as premier and minister of railways with George Moir Weir, Gordon Sloan, Arthur Gray, John Hart, Kenneth Macdonald, George Sharratt Pearson, Frank Macpherson among others.
After two decades of debate the Westminster hospital governors led by the Prince of Wales announce plans to relocate the hospital to a site further west near Lambeth Bridge, with demolition of the current landmark.
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