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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 16, 1947
Page
2
Postwar immigration is a major issue as nations reorganize life. War and shipping limits constrain flows, but once normal ocean travel returns a surge of movement is anticipated though many plans remain unlikely in the near term.
Australian Immigration Minister A A Calwell urged strong migration from Britain to the Dominions to boost population from 7.5 million to 20 million in about two and a half generations. He argued larger populations secure the British Commonwealth and maintain European culture in the South Pacific.
Mr. Calwell argues Britain has ten to fifteen million more people than it can feed and advocates moving them to the Dominions. He notes over 400,000 Brits registered to go to Australia while Britain faces an economic crisis and labor shortage. The government would oppose migration on that scale until Britain's labor situation improves.
A collection of quotes on home as a source of happiness, safety, and identity. Notable lines by Mary Baker Eddy, Montroster, Bruce Barton, Holland, Christopher Harvey, D. H. Lawrence, and a humorous aside about halibut.
Manitoba wakes to a wide oil exploration push near Neepawa as drilling plans start. Major players include California Standard Co and Gulf Co, with seismic and magnetometric surveys across about 1.5 million acres. Historic salt deposits near Neepawa are noted alongside ongoing oil prospecting and the Langford Oil Syndicate.
Brigadier Charles Pean, who joined the Salvation Army to aid abolition, oversaw repatriation and aid for liberated convicts from Devil's Island. By wartime pause and postwar effort, 1,582 returned. about 800 remain, disabled by disease, slated for transfer to a new French prison and temporary care in French Guiana hospitals.
Frank N. Wallace Indiana state entomologist advises homeowners to feed termites outdoors. He notes termites do not necessarily attack floors walls or walnut paneling and recommends keeping an old wood pile in the backyard to lure them away from homes.
A pigeon used to carry three resistance messages to England four years ago is found dead in a bombed hotel loft in Eastbourne Sussex. Its leg tag reports German troop movements and expresses hope of victory. The skeleton is discovered by boys playing nearby.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports Canada’s population at 12,582,000 as of June 1 1947 up from 12,307,000 a year earlier, a gain of 275,000 and the largest yearly increase since Confederation. Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia lead gains, while Prince Edward Island holds at 94,000.
A string of light jokes and classroom moments unfolds from a business training college. A principal notes many women marry their employers within a year, while a student’s mother boasts about her son’s love of dumb animals. Other sketches cover exam misreadings and office banter as employees improvise during a shave or read the paper at home.
C W N A president R A Giles of Lachute Quebec is set to be named president at the annual meeting in Victoria British Columbia. A former Ontario Quebec division president and current secretary for a decade he has spent nearly 40 years in newspaper work rising from printer's devil to editor.
In the two decades before the Second World War, Canada did not build a single sea-going merchant ship, a notable gap in its wartime preparedness and shipbuilding history.
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