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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 16, 1945
Page
4
A humorous note from Port Credit News praising advertisers and community reporters. It extols merchants who advertise and residents who send wedding and party details early for better reporting and town reputation. It laments those who think they can run the paper better.
At the request of the British government a Canadian corps of Civilian fighters was organized with 423 men recruited from 107 municipalities. They arrived in the United Kingdom before end of 1942 and were posted to six stations in four centres. They fought fires from incendiary bombs and explosives until they were recalled to Canada at end of 1944.
Roblin council approves July 4 minutes. Payments to A T Kines, H Zorn, Mike Kiemetski, Williard Zorn, Peter Hanson, workmanship and supplies from Beaver Lumber and Imperial Oil, and other vendors. Building permits granted, licenses issued, bylaws 348 and 349 passed for property sales. Resolutions back Western Lumbermen, adjust school district boundaries, cancel Town House balance, and notes on Meatless Tuesdays and cancer statistics.
Requests to the Provincial Government prompt a survey of deaf children in Manitoba. Names and addresses with full details should be sent to Mr. Lorne Locke of Winnipeg, who, with Alderman Black and Peter Jessiman, forms a survey committee to pursue reopening the Manitoba School for the Deaf at Tuxedo.
The population aged 14 years and over on April 1, 1945 shows 4,567,000 men and 3,382,000 women. Canada’s daily war production rose from 1,500,000 in 1943 to a 1940 peak of 9,000,000 and since 1945 began averaging about 6,000,000.
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