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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 27, 1933
Page
4
Canada emerges as a top playground for visitors with vast forests, extensive highways, and robust travel services. Millions travel yearly for recreation including canoeing, camping, hunting, and wildlife study with accessible guides and canoe rental across diverse regions.
Since the 1921 inauguration 251 medals have honored life saving or notable work in serious emergencies among Canadian Boy Scouts. There are 49 certificates of merit and 25 letters of commendation for valuable service in lesser emergencies. Medal types include 14 bronze crosses, 108 silver crosses, and 129 gilt crosses for various life saving deeds and emergency service.
Canada offers diverse travel by rail and ship between principal cities and lake and ocean ports. It features hotels from tourist camps to luxury, abundant fishing waters, hunting grounds, and camping areas. Old France vibes Quebec and the Maritimes while Ontario offers top angling and wide open seasons. Golf courses abound, tennis grows nationwide, and new booklets with road maps detail attractions and routes.
Western provinces offer historic sites and monuments while a large river and lake system enables many canoe routes. Novices can choose trips near civilization with safety, while experts may seek unmapped areas. Free route information and recreation details are available from the National Development Bureau in Ottawa upon specific area requests.
Canadian January gold production totaled 733,456 ounces, down from 733,456 last January. Ontario led with 171,879 ounces followed by Quebec 33,041, British Columbia 17,804, Manitoba 26,491, and Nova Scotia 241 ounces.
A new wood pulp based material with properties similar to celluloid is being used in toy manufacturing. It promises durable plastics substitutes for various toy components, potentially reducing reliance on traditional celluloid plastics.
Many poultry keepers overlook oats in fowl rations citing market oats as poor and uneaten due to their fibrous hull. When oats are of good quality, they prove an excellent feed and, once flocks are accustomed, birds eat it greedily, as shown by the Dominion Department of Agriculture.
Martin Wronsky of Luft Hansa unveiled the 5000 ton Westfalia seaplane base in the South Atlantic with a powerful catapult able to launch an eight and a half ton aircraft at 90 miles per hour in 1.5 seconds. The inventor hailed it as German engineering advancing long distance air travel and a step toward reestablishing a place in the sun.
Public demonstration of a steam powered aeroplane was held in Oakland by William J. and George Besler sons of W G Besler, New Jersey Central railroad chairman. Piloted by William J. Besler the craft flew about five minutes performing landings and takeoffs. It could stop quickly by reversing the motor and propeller. Landing at 50 mph it stopped within about 100 feet. The Beslers will not pursue aero engine development but will work on railway equipment in Davenport Iowa. The plane shouted hello from 100 feet up heard clearly on the ground. It could travel 100 miles on about 40 cents of fuel oil and cruised at 100 mph.
A class of boys were asked to craft a short story. The winning piece came from a small boy who wrote a minimalist tale: one bull, two toreadors, one bull, one toreador, one bull.
Bees wintered in cellars or dugouts often lose home location and drift when released. Move indoor wintered hives outdoors when weather permits or late in the day to ease reorientation. Space hives at least six feet apart and avoid uniform entrances to reduce drifting as colonies establish their summer stands.
The Dominion Horticulturist Dr Macoun advises removing about two feet of soil to improve drainage. Lay three inch tile with proper fall if possible, or gravel below the removed layer. Replace with surface soil mixed with clay and manure, then rework the removed soil with manure to form a rich bed for roses.
Prof. H. C. Grant of Manitoba reports in the Empire Marketing Board survey that barley lives from desert fringes to near the Arctic, ripens faster than wheat rye or oats, and thrives in sub arctic summers and semi tropical rainy seasons Ray. It grows even at 10 000 feet with summer temperatures around 52 degrees and frosts frequent, enabling barley to mature 150 miles beyond the Arctic circle and serve areas like north eastern Africa where wheat fails.
Candidates for church training include a rear admiral, two policemen, two Army officers, two farmers, and a dancing master among forty nine nominees. Only twelve arrived directly from a university, showing varied backgrounds in the selection.
Barter is being tried in large cities of Siam as authorities test new trade practices. Officials report growing participation and a push to ease shortages. Local merchants note mixed reactions from consumers amid unfamiliar exchange methods.
Dr. D A MacGibbon argues Western Canada likely nears peak wheat output and export. 1928 to 1931 saw demand shifts, drought, and price drops. Saskatchewan Alberta and Manitoba projected max yields of 405, 211, and stabilized Manitoba, with total Western crop around 670 to 760 million bushels. Exports may hover near 200 million bushels for years.
Chinese and European aviation authorities launch a new air link program accelerating cross border travel. Officials from both sides attend the ceremony highlighting expanded routes and cooperative investments in airport infrastructure and passenger services.
F E Cox Britain's salvage expert who raised 32 of 42 German warships scuttled after the Armistice plans to abandon the remaining ten vessels at Scapa Flow in Orkney. Declining scrap prices slashed profits, leaving a loss of 160000 dollars on a 2500000 deal with the authorities.
Benjamin FE Balay a longtime watchman at the Denver post office resents claims post office pens are inadequate He says he changes all pen points twice daily and asserts Postmaster General James A Farley did not originate the practice A tourist highway will be built across the Bavarian Alps.
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