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The Brussels Post, 1929-2-13, Page 6WED DAY, I' '1 13, 18th, 1929, THE $genii i3EL $ POET CREAM! TRY THE CO.OPERATIVE WAY SHIP CREAM tO Ord9tdd Formers' Co -Operative Co. WINGHAM WE LOAN CANS PAY EXPRESS REMIT PROMPTLY NEM BANK FOR CANADA From •an announcement appear ing in a recent issue of The Official Gazette, it appears that at the next evscion of Parliament an application will be made to form a bank, under the Canadian Bank Act, to bo known as Barclay's Bank (Canada). Barclay's Lank, Limited, of Lon- don, is one of the "big five" with resources, as shown in the balance sheet as at June 30, of approximate- ly $1,800,000,000, 1 For some time past the hank halt been represented in Montreal by a subsidiary company under the title of "Barclay (Canada) Limited." which, however, owing to Caeachan banking law= has been able to ren members of that committee and the ti nitecl State:; Olympi.+ committee ill reference to the matter, President Mulqueen of the Cana- dian committee will be in New York next week at the Milirose games and will confer with the United States Olympic officials and endeavor to en- list their support on behalf of Can ada. ']'here is still some doubt as tet whether the United States has been awarded the winter sports as Nivel as the summer games, but even if such is the ease an effort will be made to have the winter sports m Canada in 1932, The intention is to hold the sports in Montreal or Ottawa if they aro awarded to Canada. der only very limited service;, an.i C CLUBS has not been in a position to offer • the facilities of an agency or .1. branch bank representing the "Bar- clay Group," STOCKMEN E V E L P The proposed bank will have an authorized and paid-up capital of $500,000 with a reserve fund of a like amount, the majority of the • (''elf feeding competitions are (1) - capital being sub.;cribed by Barclay ing a valuable work in training Bank, Limited, and Barclay's Ban hot -e in the care of cattle. From n (Dominion, Colonial and Over -ease) etete .,+ ten clubs organized in the The latter institution, it will be re• , Pr,, . of Quebec seven years 'ago, called, was formed in Febru 1v, tier. r•• now in operation upwards 1920, by the amalgamation of tae , or -• V, my -five elute; in which the National Bank of South Africa, the rrIng people are gaining valuable Anglo-Egyptian Bank and the Col- ': experience in the proper feeding., onial Bank, with the object of fur- handling and exhibiting of calvee. thering the interest, of Imperi•el The work is carried on jointly by the trade, and has branches at most et federal and provincial Departments the important centres of the Ent- of Agriculture each providing fifty per cent. of the prize money award- ed and sharing the supervision of the clubs during the year. The youths start with young calve, of good type; and breeding and feed and care for them continuausly under supervision until the following year when they are brought together as yearling= for competition. Some of the Clubs have as high as eighty merber:e. The brinsing together of the stock of so many enthusiastic young people abuses great interest and it is :stated by the Hon. W. R. Motherwell, Minister of Agriculture at Ottawa, in his report for the pact ficaI year, that an attendance of a thousand or more ata Calf Fair is not unusual. The influence of this work in the district is far reaching and Clubs rapidly develop into come munity breeding centres for hige class cattle, The Minister also points nut the additional value of "}'.et me eay that I think a large this work in the training it affords measure of good may well accrue to the boys in all phases of live stock Canada, whose representatives have feeding and management and in the established :1n enviable record In the keeping of record of feed costs and Olympic gamer by holding the win- production. ter sports in this country. "Games carry a distinct appeal to 1 all Classes of the community, and are recognized as one of the most ef- festive agencies of publicity. I am , pleased, therefore, personally and on behalf of my colleagues in the gov- ernmeet, to commend the enterprise of the Canadian Olympic committee in seeking to obtain this important sporting event for Canada." Sir George McLaren P,rown, Can- adian representative on the Inter- national Olympic committee, hat been in eontmuniration by cable: with pire. It is understood that Sir Robert Borden will accept the office el President of the new bank. Canadian Government Endorses Application for 1932 Winter Sports Premier King and His Associates Think Olympic Games in Canada Will be a Good Thing. Endorsation by the Canadian gov- ernment of the application of the Canadian Olympic committee for the Olympic sports of 1932 has been re- ceived by President P. J. Mulqueen. A letter Saturday from the Prince Minister, Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King reads as f ollows: WILL VISIT CANADA Tokio, Feb. 0—Reliable informa- tion here indicates that the visit ,1f the Duke of Gloucester to Japan will take place early in May. Thi I)uke is expected to travel aboard the liner Morea from Marseilles to Hoeg Kong, where he will transfer to the Lritish Stemmer that will take him to Japan. He experts to return to England by way of Canada, Wanted We pay Highest Cash Price for Cream. 1 cent per lb. Butter Fat extra paid for all Cream delivered at our Creamery. Satisfaction Guaranteed Brussels Creamery Co. Phone 22 Limited Bolivia arzd Paraguay BMW PACTS AAOu'r TIII1SJC COUNTRIES. BoIlvJa Is Jflght Tithes the Size of Paraguay Both Countries Are X tdloelced—Risputed Territoy Ts Wilderness of Swampy band, Thp following brlee facts i•egarc}in1 Bolivia and Paraguay may be of some interest to readers, writes Beery Kit- trldgo Norton In the New York Times: Paraguay, without the Oran ('Chace, is the smallest state in South Amer lea, its area is about 50,00e equate, mules. It has nearly a million peoplt the majority of whom are native In- dians; the remainder are mestizos, with a email minority of who es. Paraguay Is almost surrounded by Argentina and Brazil, tbe remainder of the boundary being the part now - in dispute with Bolivia. Access to the sea Is by means of the Parana river, Asuncion, the capital, being 1,000 miles front the Atlantic coa nt at the point where the Pilcomayo river, the northern boundary of Argentina, joins the Parana from the west, Para gu.ay proper, the settled and develop- ed' part of the country, lies wholly to the east of the Parana. Stretching away to the northwest, >- v thePa- rana, eethe I i co u o and w n] i b a 1 e1- rana lies the (Iran Chaco, a wi d • nese of swamp and grassland which may have considerable value some day, but which derives its chief In- terest at presnt beenuse there moist e vastwastes--no- bodysomewhere ..t. tie 5--- mwl,reinit, body knows where—ea boundary line between Paraguay av and Bcdie a, Pa ragnay claims territory in this region variously estimated at from 63,000 to 100.u00 square utiles. It bases its claim upon the tact that this arch was during Spa.tinh times gov- erned tram Asuncion and is therefore an intecrai part of Paraguayan terri- tory. The Paraguayans have built a nuntbee of forts; ;n 11,,, Chaco, Bort Olenpo, the oldest, Lavin:: been oct•u- }u i by Para enayen troops since l7e2. Tile• present Paraguayan 00121- p; 0 ex', mos as far south as Puerto P4reeiene Brom this line of settlements as - g. the Parana river Paraguay has e working steadily westward Into the c' ran Mare. A number of local and forefen inters s hate obtained c>.rr •.; leer in the Chaco for quebra- cho lumbering and .for cattle raising. The quebraeho forests are the source of an important tanning ma- terial. Thee interests have built numerous reads and several lines of railway from the interior of the east- ern par. of the. ('haco to the banks of the Parana river, West of the forests and the ranches are the military out- posts, based urnn diminutive forts, by n,•:tar of whth Paraguay defends her claims against any unexpected Lssault from Bolivia. Paraguay's e•ent• mien le that in the nripinal Qi:L oniric of the conn- tit- tee (}ran ('il:iea is an integral part of Para, 't . an 1,•re.toy, that lea• el title ;r.:-, 1,•,11 pi,=crier.:} in ac' frrr.1 it: - b, einnirg to the present day ;Aid tee1 eh,• i:, o followe-d nit line 1.• •l 1;1l,• by the occupation ;eel the ' e. n,•nt of the chaie, . . f. I'1t.e: t y 1 a e 'or e ,1 Ia. ‘,:el of heirs., .e P, , eih 1'1 "i+"'I: e,0111n -.., 11, I :.tea t it ;.clue ;n ''-• a. 11.r p,,pe..lai1 0 is 11es • u:• ,• f•7,11,1,op, few -]yen °•tfn1, •+ err ,n 1C0141 pit G 1 .., - '.11e.1 a:' :Ate h... .F } regio tier mince.. 1 ins the et h t 14t.:;11 n,.tr:y halt the v see wbee 2 Axel a• y e!- r 1 a1' 1,r� .rr . 11• in 11v pban :1 11';', alt', This , 1 ;;,111,.11 p dert a r : li t I1 1.: tile mouitialn 2001t :1t 1. 1.,. , 1 ';11 -t .i ar.ir't,i1:tie•:it 4111' n. if;v.r :,1 41i•• 4'111•• 4'rig . t. alar b; :1.. ,.. are practically two separate states, It was long a classic) question among Bolivians as 10 whether the Country faced west or east- w}tvther It was a Paclde,eouittry of an Atlan- tie country. .Each had its advocates. Tito Atlantic school of thought ar- gued the development of the agricul- tural plain and the building of arail. road to the Atlantic coast to obtain access to the markets of Europe and the Eastern United States, Tho Pa- cific school insisted that the mineral wealth of the country was most lin- portant and that this must necessar- ily be .shipped through Pacific ports, Out in that borderland wiirlorness are Bolivian officials and Bolivian military outposts, While the Para- guayan occupation has been along the Parana and eastward, the Bolivian penetration hes been along the Pil comayo to the south. Bolivia has oc- cupied this terrlloy as far as I+'ort. Esteros, hardly'150 miles from Asun- cion, Northward from there Bolivia, like Paraguay, has established ite out- posts and built its diminutive forts. It would be beyond human nature under these circumstances to expect that local officials and army officers would, not make an effort now and again to penetrate still farther into the disputed area. These efforts were bound 1.0 produce a clash. One day last December a patrol of some 800 Paraguayan troops came across a number of Bolivians engaged d art con- structing on- shzctiu„ n •tw fort o tit y had given the name VittMl tic t e Th.. Pa. ag•utyans ordered d them to de ever and move cut of Paraguayan terri- tore. The 13rdivians refused. Some- body fired end wheat the fray were: over a snort' of Bolivians had been kneel. — IS IN SADDLE ONCE MORE Rt. Hon. Stanley Bruce, Premier of Australia, who has taken office at the head of a coalition government, DURHAM ELEVATOR BURNED TO GROUND Frame Structure, Machinery and Seed Totally Destroyed in Blaze Durham, Feb. 8—From some un-! known cause 0. S. Hunter's large I seed elevator was burned to the! ground this afternoon, Smoke was first noticed issuing from the top 1 door, and so dense did it become that nothing could be done to cheek the I fire. In an hour and a half the large frame structure was in ruins. It was the largest hulling, seed - cleaning plant in this section of the Province, and four carloads of seed,, mainly clover, wel'e being shipped weekly. Expensive new machinery had been installed only last year, and the total loss is roughly estimat- ed at $$0,000, $50,000 of stock and $30,000 machinery, The elevator was located across the tracks from the Canadian National Railways station. The insurance carried will cover only a small part of the lose. i tLOOK AT YOUR LABEL 1. IIDere and Therp (2111) Large cargoes of wheat are he. Ing shipped to Japan and the Orient through Vancouver these days, It seems liko sending coals to Newcastle to send flour to ",bite Flowery Kingdom." Somo foundation for the old nickname "woolly" west is found in the report that Alberta's wool output for 1928 amounted to 3.033,- 181 pounds, Altogether the Domin- ion produced over eighteen and 0. half million pounds. Steel is replacing wood In freight service on the Canadian Paeilic Beltway as 7,500 box cars now ono order for the company well be of se- el construction. The} will have : a capttutty of about 2,000 busbeis of grain and a loud of 120.000 pounds. Fur -farming is developing many branches, one of the most recent being the organization in Manito- ba or the Manitoba Muskrat Breed- ers Association. The body plans to study muskrat breeding condi- tions and to investigate all phases of the industry. In a recent speech at Kitchener, Ontario, E. W, Beatty, chairman and president of the Canadian Pacific) pointed out that the aver- age freight rate per ton per mile in Canada is about 51/2 p er cent or than e U. tow n the . and that S the average of Canadian grain rates is 40 per cent lower. The Trans -Canada will cross tbe continent in an hour and a half less time eastbound, and an bour less westbound than it did last year. This does not nue= that Canada has got any smaller. but that the Canadian Pacific Railway is running the famous flyer on an improved schedule, • Penny postage, inaugurated at Christmas, is working well and bringing about a notable increase. in letter malls from Canada to the British Isles, acvording to federal postal officials. It is estimated that the increase in the course of a year would be such as to offset the e200,000 estimated re- duction in revenue by the penny rate. In Manitoba, there is coo tractor for every 4.6 farms; in Saskatche- wan, one for every 4.7 farms; and in Alberta, ono for every 7.5 farms. If all the tractors were hitcbed together, how long could it take a garage mecnanic to reach the moon. For the sixth successive year Dean Sinclair Laird of Macdonald College, Ste, Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, will conduct, an all ex- pense tour across Canada and back, starting from Toronto on July 22, and lasting for 21 days. The party travels in a special train with a baggage car filled up as a sixty -foot dressing -room. Equipped with a bow -rudder, a new device that will aid in navi- gating the harbours of Victoria and Vancouver and the waters of the British Columbia coast, the Princes. Norah bas arrived on the Pacific seaboard to join the fleet of the B. C. Coastal services of the Canadian Pacific Railway. She is the eighteenth ship to be built for this work and has just been con- structed at the shipbuilding yards on the Clyde in Scotland. Manufacturers of Czecho-Slovakia are moderizing their plants. Rhode Island in 1732, offered a bounty of ten pounds for every wolf killed, Christoper Columbus received the equivalent of $320 for discovering America. A number of front -wheel -drive cars were shown at the recent auto show in Paris. The people of California consume more than $17,000,000 worth of ice cream (wholesale value) annually, Mid -Winter Go •jig w H �@J+3al)Sney at Victoria, i30Cm oc4ai; w:„ i" •,t 41, These photographs were taken on the beautiful Colwood Golf Course, Victoria, B.C„ where the first Empress Hotel mid -winter golf tournament for the L. W, Beatty challenge trophy, will be held during the week of February 1:3, These pictures, taken on the 21st of January, give some idea of the summery aspect of 'Vie- toria's mid -winter weather. 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