Plan for Wholesale Emigration From Britain to Solve Unemployment
A proposed Labour plan to move Britain’s unemployed to new lands in the Empire with public utilities support. Dominions would aid land acquisition and development while workers are sent to settle virgin territories. The scheme aims to create an economic frontier, with one Dominion already endorsing it.
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Labor
Great Britain
Horace Greeley
London
England
Britain
Canadian Pacific hires 12000 extra workers for summer work
About 12,000 extra men are finding employment this summer in the Canadian Pacific Railway's nationwide programme of construction, maintenance and improvement. The company and contractor crews total around 8,000 in-house workers in addition to others. Work includes branch line laying, right-of-way repairs, bridges, tunnels, stations, and buildings, with men recruited near the site and kept employed until job completion.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Italian wheat duty rise aims to protect farmers
A. B. Muddiman reports in Milan that Italy has increased duty on imported wheat to shield farmers from unprofitable prices. Officials estimate a potential loss of about 1,000,000 tons of this year’s harvest. French engineers invent a screen that allows outdoor and lighted-hall picture showings. W. ON. U. 1852
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Italy
A. B. Muddiman
Milan
Department of Trade and Commerce
Saskatchewan Egg Pool Prices Rise This Season
The Saskatchewan Co operative Poultry Producers Limited Egg Pool reports higher final payments this season. Extras 22 cents, firsts 19 cents, seconds 17 cents, crax 15 cents per dozen net cash f o b shipping point. Prices exceed last year and edge above every other provincial dealer. Pool volume up 18 percent after a 58 percent rise in 1928.
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Saskatchewan Co-operative Poultry Producers Limited
Ayrshire Breeders Report Highlights June July Totals
The Canadian Ayrshire Breeders Association secretary received 95 reports of cows and heifers qualified in the R.O.P. 33 265 day class and 62 in the Honor Roll 305 day division during June and July. Within the 265 day group 15 were mature, 4 four-year-old, 5 three-year-old, and 9 two-year-old. Twenty-seven records came from two milkings per day.
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Ayrshire Breeders’ Association
R.O.P
Canada Holds Trade Position Despite Export Decline
Canada remained among leading trading nations in the year ended March 31, 1930, with a trade deficit of 103,335,512 despite falling exports. Total trade was 2,393,212,000, down from 2,654,575,000 in 1929, while imports eased to 1,248,273,582 from 1,265,679,091. Exports dropped to 1,144,938,070 from 1,388,896,075, led by grains and chiefly wheat, yet Canada ranked highly in exports of printing paper, nickel, asbestos, automobiles, wheat, wheat flour, and wood pulp.
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Ottawa
United Kingdom
Europe
Canada
Interpreter Knows His Job In London Summer
One of the busiest men in London this summer is W Browthers interpreter for a bus company who directs people in their own language. Besides English his tongue he speaks German French Italian Danish Swedish and Japanese. I can even talk American he said which is just as well for any number of Americans seem to think they need an interpreter in London.
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London
W. Browthers
Asbestos In Manitoba Finds Limited Local Impact
Asbestos discovered at two sites in Northern Manitoba adds to the province’s mineral wealth but does not alter Canada’s dominance in global asbestos output. Canada supplies about 74 percent of the world’s asbestos, Rhodesia nine percent, Russia six percent, and South Africa six percent, with other nations sharing the remainder. Canadian shipments in 1929 reached 306,055 tons valued at 13,172,581 dollars, up 12.1 percent in quantity and 17.2 percent in value.
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Manitoba
Canada
Rhodesia
Russia
South African
Canada’s 1929–30 Consumption Shows Domestic Production Strength
Dominion Bureau of Statistics figures reveal high domestic sourcing across major goods. Cheese 98 percent and butter two thirds of national consumption in 1929. Refined sugar 98 percent from Canadian refineries. Salt two thirds Canadian-made. Coal half of Canada’s 1930 first six months. Radios and parts 70 percent manufactured in Canada.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Made-in-Manitoba Committee Launches Publicity Drive
The Made in Manitoba Committee of the Industrial Development Bureau plans an extensive publicity programme to showcase the province's farm and factory products. Sidewalk cafes have been introduced in Havana.
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The
Industrial Development Bureau
Havana
Wasteful Gas Burns Shape Alberta Energy Crisis
A Saskatchewan education plan expands to correspondence courses while Alberta wastes vast volumes of natural gas in Turner Valley. Estimates show 1929 gas waste equaled 6.57 million tons of coal, with potential for 12 years of Saskatchewan supply at current usage and a looming rise as more wells come online.
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Alberta
Canada
Turner Valley
Saskatchewan
Calgary
Farm Boys and Girls Given High Praise by Walsh
F. W. Walsh, superintendent of agriculture for the Canadian National Railways, returns from England declaring Canada stands second to the United States in farm youth work. He chaired the Canadian boys cattle judging team at Manchester's royal show and led delegates at the world poultry congress, also visiting Europe to study agricultural development.
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Canada
United States
F. W. Walsh
Canadian National Railways
England
Manchester
Walsh
Continent
Summerfallow depth tested by Dominion Station
The Dominion Experimental Station at Scott Sask reports after fourteen years of study that plowing summerfallow deeper than four inches offers no advantage. A four inch depth retains moisture, saves time and labor, and aids weed control, with trials also including depths from three to eight inches.
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Dominion Experimental Station
Scott, Sask
Poultry Profit Rationale From Laying Hen Costs
The Lenoxville Experimental Station reports ten year average feeding cost per hen at $2.43. With eggs at 35 cents a dozen, 81 eggs or 6.75 dozen must be produced to cover costs. hens laying 150 to 200 eggs yearly yield profit, underscoring careful culling before laying season.
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Lennoxville Experimental Station
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Ten years of effort yields tar from Alberta sands
D. K. A. Clark of the University of Alberta claims extraction of tar from Mc Murray bituminous sands achieved 95 per cent purity in recent tests. The advance could cut road building costs and bolster related developments in Northern Alberta. The piece also notes a lighthearted postcard exchange about picnics and jokes about UK airports being government controlled.
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Alberta
McMurray
D. K. A. Clark
University of Alberta
Canada Grows Fine Tobacco Quality Better Than Imports
Dr E B Archibald of the Dominion Experimental Farms reports Canadian farmers, aided by Dominion Department of Agriculture research, now produce nearly all fine tobacco for Canadian manufacturers. He notes the leaf quality surpasses that of imported tobacco.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
E. 8. Archibald
Dominion Experimental Farms
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