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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 08, 1924
Page
3
Ottawa reports no substantive moves after last month’s unemployment conference. A national committee was urged but not appointed, as provinces consider appointing employment service councils. Government reiterates responsibility rests with provinces, while job seekers remain largely the same as last year.
London reports the High Commissioner outlines terms of a Canada Australia tariff agreement. Canada would grant Australia British preference on meat oils and dairy products while Australia offers lower import duties on machinery printing paper and gloves. The pact also covers wines brandy and fruit products with favored rates.
The Standard Bank of Canada and the Sterling Bank of Canada announce approval from the Minister of Finance for their merger into the Standard Sterling Bank of Canada. The exchange ratio is two Standard Bank shares for three Sterling shares. Sterling shareholders vote November 27 and Standard Bank shareholders vote November 17 to ratify.
The 14 000 000 gold marks due October 1 for Berlin reparations were placed at the disposal of the Deputy Agent General for Reparations on September 30.
The feature on A Canadian Caravan in France spurs plans for a British Isles exhibition train. Proponents argue a Wembley on wheels would spark immigration interest and strengthen trade by touring England Ireland and Scotland with Canadian goods and catalogs in French and English.
A Cabinet sub committee has chosen J Emil Brunel of Montreal as best design for the Wilfrid Laurier statue. The life size bronze statue will stand on an imposing base with steps to the pedestal. The model is highly lifelike and casting should be completed by next summer for an unveiling ceremony.
Saskatchewan wheat pool authorities announced a handling charge of half a cent per bushel on platform loaded Wheat to be applied locally. Alberta and Manitoba pools will adopt a similar rate. Secretary G W Robertson noted initial estimates favored three quarters of a cent, but the lower rate was chosen as the service charge.
In Geneva Aris Briand urged nations to back the pacific dispute protocol, warning against economic wars. France pledges adhesion. Britain supports ratification efforts while stressing the League cannot become a super-state.
Lee Davis will not face execution on October 24 for the murder of Henri Cleroux, bank chauffeur. The Supreme Court of Canada will not convene until February due to appellate dissension.
Tokio capitalists file for permission to build a cable railway up Mount Fuji with Home Affairs and Railways. The government orders a survey of the mountain slopes as a precursor to permits.
Government has no further official guidance on the proposed Empire round-table conference for October. It is viewed as unlikely to be held until Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas returns from South Africa and settles the date among Dominions. Canada would send League of Nations delegates if the conference proceeds.
A Morning Post correspondent predicts Germany will soon be free to sign treaties under the Versailles framework, boosting trade with Canada and other Dominions while Britain’s imperial preference is not extended. Edmonton reports a major ochre discovery 70 miles north of the city near the railway, with claims covering the site and implications for Alberta paint production.
Ottawa reports the cabinet favors not continuing participation in the British Empire Exhibition next year. Economy concerns influence the decision as authorities consider the broader empire show.
A Department of Immigration bulletin says about 5,000 Canadians return from the United States each month. Since May 1 total Canadian immigration reached 76,719, vs 60,161 last year. August saw Michigan lead with 349 returning, followed by Washington 272 and New York 172.
Information from Ottawa outlines portions of the Australian trade treaty. Canada grants Australia full preference while Australia withholds full British preference, offering certain concessions to Canadian manufacturers. Canada gains newsprint preference, and Australia raises British labor and material requirements for imports.
London reports a sudden political crisis as a censure motion by Sir Robert Horne and a rejection motion by Mr. Asquith target the government. The quarrel centers on the Worker's Weekly sedition case and the Anglo-Saxon Soviet Russian treaty. Autumn session begins October 28. defeat appears likely.
Professors Fleroff and Kousmin of the Institute of Experimental Medicine report a newly identified illness that appears during influenza outbreaks. It causes severe chills violent headache vomiting nasal hemorrhage and high fever. The unnamed disease lasts two to six days and is communicable but not always fatal.
Salmon packers in Ketchikan Alaska agree not to purchase fish suspected of theft. More than 30 vessels are blacklisted for piracy tactics, part of a campaign to stop systematic robbery of flak traps in the district.
Winnipeg reports grain prices climbing amid believed world shortages and rising delivery peaks. Alberta Grain Growers President Henry Wise Wood predicts Wheat may top 2 dollars before next crop, citing non speculation based concerns. Chicago notes wild market surge driven by speculative and export buying amid European crop fears.
Captain Gus Foellmer and five crew members of the Hudson's Bay Company steamer Lady Kindersley, lost in Arctic ice, were rescued when the Ray Chimo reached the quarantine station. The vessel, sailing from Vancouver, carried a million dollar cargo believed unrecoverable.
Fossilized bones of giant animals from three to six million years ago were found by Ralph Nelson of Unity in the Muddy Lake area. The find, reported to the University of Saskatchewan and the Dominion Department of the Interior, is identified as a typical Cretaceous bone bed and is Saskatchewan’s first discovery of its kind.
Manitoba reports first year gross profit from the Liquor Control Act near 1.2 million dollars. Winnipeg will receive about 175 thousand and other municipalities will obtain proportional shares of the net profits.
Chinese spies employed by Kiangsu forces trying to seize Shanghai were killed by Chekiang troops while fleeing the burning town of Lotien ten miles north. Letters found on the dead men, chekiang headquarters reported, showed orders to burn Shanghai.
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