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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-06-06, Page 7Canada to Open Restocking the Two. More Tirade Lakes and Rivers Offices in West of Canada Bureaus in San Francisco and Chicago Will Supplement New York Head- quarters Decision Made in Ottawa May Install Branch in South ANL as Business Decelops Ottawa, Ont,-17xpansiott of the Cenadlan Cotnntercial Intelligence Service in the :United • States by estab- lishing trade commissioners' offices in Chicago and San Francisca is au • Aounced. by the Department. of Trade and Ccnitnorce, Hitherto there has been only one eeteblishtnept, namely, in New Y„or1c, tinder: the eotilniiseioner- shi'P of F,.i udd. ]t, S. Camera, who was formerly lo- ,. Gated in Batavia,: arrived in ,Ottawa last week, will have charge of the • Chicago office,, while H. R. Poussette, formerly director. of the Commercial Intelligence 'Service here' and recently TradeOoratnissioner at, Calcutta, has been•appointed td the San 'rancisdo ofiloe. The Chicago office will cover the Mississip i Valley, all the , territory between the Alleghanies on the East and the Rocky Mountain states on the West. :This area in the. latest period for which statistics are available took more than' :twelve per cent. of the total imports of the United States and .suns ick PATIO Edward Island, sent out more than 25 per, cent, of Bt w 1, d Alberta` l a d the total exports Manitoba, Saekatcbewa, nd Important Work of Fish Cuj tural Service, Department of Marine and Fisheries Canada's sea and 4nland fisheries are among the most extensive and veluablo in the world, The,natural reproduction of sea fisheries ]s not, up to the present, showin gtiie peed. for artificial essistanee, probably be cause the spawning gratinds and.sea pasturages of the oceans are so' exten- sive that the annual reprotluetioni lceepe pace. with the toll talten'by the commercial fishermen Natltal production has not, heweeme„.,.iieen found sufficient to maintain thoeAO- ing in our lakes and rivers on account of intensive operations, and to coulee tercet this situation the Department; of Maelnc'and Fisheries, through ,its1 Fish Cultural "Service, operates' a mute, bei p€,tisk hatchet:ice located fat stre- togic points across Canada "'from the. Atlantic to the Pacific Froin these establishments annual distributione• of: fish eggs, fry; and fingerlings' ire made with a view to assisting nature in maintaining the productiveness'of' the inland waters. During the fiscal year, 1827, the• Dominion Fish Cultural Service ieeY e, ated 24 main fish hatcheries, 7, nisi; diary, hatcheries, and four salmon re-, Mining: ponds, 'Phase were maiiiainedr inall the provinces in which the Do- minion Governinent administers' .the fisheries, naively, Nova Scotia7-liew The territory .of'the San Francisco British Columbia. • Ontario and Clue- of ice would cover the entire West Coast, east of the Rockies; and in- clude the Mountain states. The ter- ritory'of the New York office' covers the entire Eastern seaboard, including Pennsylvania. There. is a possibility, as trade de- velops, that anbthe'r Dille° • will be opened in. New Orleans, in which case • the lower Mississippi Valley states would form the territory allotted. Account of Daring bac administer their fisheries and open- ate their -own fish cultatal services, The 1027 distribution• from the .Fed- eral hatcheries reached a total of 295,- 280,782 fry, advanced fry, and'finger- lings. This distribution ltcluded'the more valuable food and game fishes, such as Atlantic salmon, raiaibow trout, cut-throat trout, steelhei,dd;-sal- mon, ICamnloops trout, Loeb Leven trout, brown trout, sockeye' salmon, spring salmon, speckled trout White= fish, salin"n trout; and pickerel. c•The largest distributions were of White- fish, sockeye salmon, Atlantic salmon, Adventure Found tinct picltorel, in- the order rammed.. •In addition to the distributions that were made from the hatcheries; thirty- free hirtyfree lakes and streams received Allot- ments of fry and older fish fronYother bodies of water; This work nae large- ly„eonfined to the Prairie Provinces, where many districts are not -readily accessible to existing hatcheries,; and involved the capture and transfer, in many instances for considerable 'dis- lances, of 35,961 'fish, comprising. six different species. The propagation of the commercial food fishes hds always been given first attention by the Fish Cultural ;Service but in -recent years the demands for the stocking and restocking of: lakes and streams with game fish has, been steadily ; gam -Whig' •so that now the hatching of trout and other•gcurce fish forms an important part of the work, At the St. Jolla,'New B etewick, hatchery, where progress 'is•'being made:jet, the,'iievelemment-of a brood stock of trout, neatly two and three- quarter million trout eggs everee.pro- ducec] in 1927. The growing value of Historical ,-Research Worker Makes tMFind in..British useui,n'- Paris. -Fee.. rom tiro ere pages of a .n,. . crttmbhng Yellow :back in, the British Museuin, .Stella Cleaver•Cox, well- known historical and archaeological research worker, believes she has re- constructed the daring adventure of Prince Madoc, of England, and his band of Weleitmen•:_who, as: early as 1170, journeyed across the sea to a landbelievied,to be ne ar the Gulf of MexicO:' v r, .f oo dtdieg -tq thp; tertsioa MO found, Prlltce•Afiado, 1e n ' e vejti! Prince of a 9A i Wales, and brother of Prince David, set forth on his explbrayions toseek quiet retreat from the turmoils of his time. Having a •large fortune, he ga- thered adventurous spirits about, him and sailed for new lands about 'which he had vagueiy heard. After a long sail he reached, a new country which he so; vividly described. as to leave a weUstoeked angling stream may be • Small doubt that it is.the Gulf of g,,,,,, by'si comparison of the rentals • Mexico region, which were obtained Then Prince Madoc, eager to in- form' his !Rye' relatives of rich dis- covery, returned to England, leaving 12 men behind him to settle and -col- onize the land. He sot out again for the .new world °with ten: ships filled with eager colonists, but the fate: of this voyage is not. known. it tl,' WORK,' PROGRESSES AT THE RESTORATION OF OLD ST. PAUL'S LONDON Iiitei'lon view of St. Paul's showing Griuling Gibbous carvings covered up during restoration work which le in gill, swing tted.wblch will be finished by the summer of 1930. Famous Old Cathedral Will Soon a Safe, ince aces . � •Exhibition At 1st1 �1e�'�s. e N'oriheast,. ngland Reaches I7•grlustvial:' `1'urnin Pi: ft, g • Says Heir Apparent •AN VES WORKM • �A Neweastle•on•Tyue, Pug.—A "chal- lengeof the northeast coast to the world!” The Prince of Wales these, words described an exhibition covering 100 acres on Newcastle town moor; comparable to -the. show held your years ago at Wicntbiey which he had just opened amidst sdenea of re- inai'k'able enthusiasm, 40,000 people) flaying asseembled at the Stadium to hear 'him speak. • The Exhibition, which has been: two yew) in preparation, comprises same products representing the in - thistles of northeast England, inceud hie especially shipbuilding, Preto Ytnd steel ;production, engineering output, machinery manufacture and coal mill- ing, 'ettimlemented by corresponding cont*lbutions from all parts of Great tritaiu and the Commonwealth's na- tions' overseas. It is to advertise British pradecte and,"talcing place as it has clone at the moment when trade has begun to improve after a number of years' of deep; post-war depression, it is i•e- aerded as the. turning point in the industrial history of the undaunted north. in 1922 and 1927 for theanglingprivileges on•tiertain portions of the Restigouche rivet and its t ibutaries. The angling ie seven- teen stretches of the river which was disposed of by auction at Fredericton, New I3runswieki tai. 1922 brought an- nual rentals amounting to.$16,815. In 1927 the angling in the same waters Mee Cleaver -Cox said the 'manner brought the record figure of $75,500 of writing and the longitudinal and per year for, rho-fol]oeving five years, lattitudinal figures quoted give the -"Natural liesoiarces:'Sf volume a certain authenticity. She merle her findings known, when a re- port from the States rea&hetl here that evidence had poen found that French flshecenen' hunted' 'whales :oft New- foundland as early as 1392. Britain the Best Market. La Presse • (Ind.): (Hon. J. A. Caron ,shoWdd1Gonsiderable foresight when, as Minister of, Agriotlltere; lie warned -the cream predncers. of 'the • counties adjacent to New ingland and Naw Xork that, eta, thee may Home when the United States will close their •market, and; with your plants cicsed!u31 Your dndus'tf•y'•wili be ruin - :With ethe ,new eteriff raised uin:Withethe,nevy,teriff:raised to 28 cents' al .gallon „our cream export- ers must look for :other markete, if not to the regenerations of their old :better .find the se',factorfe's, As we • l hv.e- an f unlinfitedf` market`.t in Great Britain for these products, it seems that the very moment has arrived to direct all bur activities in this direc- tion. .Sitnilarly the, new American Melee ifs; sev5ite,1iiciv ,to our export-' ars of `meat and Cattle on the hoot. The British Isles offer us a permanent` "market ht thiel ,connection; and under the circumstances we should be well ativfaaed'to take, everystep' to profit by, this'; advantageous niesket to the greatest poseibierextent Stocking .Censorship The short skirt is making chaltges Kiligsford-Suiith declared they did not everyw.hele • . QI'tteeta °finihi ra several liave the slightest idea of the direction. ctdcrcltes have decided to place cur-. •in which it lay, , tains armed tile 'lower pert of their 1 ' ---4' choir 'lofdele ea effoft Eelplet over the I; "What do you think of ,the gas clove, is Sa ma eat ... idea, that knees adjuncts be looked invention: When you[a'ndts a gster '' ! eaves '- -eel,' ,`.., neon nlY!Iera as adjuncts. to pt ay -r, oven et?" S WATER HAZARD 'IS SPEYCTACULAR PART OF RACE Basion Ileraic11 was away for over Sunday, oxd le ;sic o ,e � genas . Ono of two hundred competitors in 14Iarshaitot Motorcycle Club's fourth annual eillibu More of f Toil er and less of Anna's horned it allofetime, and there' e ti11 ou rider, striking the water splash (tering racE, hose. -,'O'f %Darer. to he plehty of gas still left!" •- r 1 it _ ' Southern Cross Pilot Testifies Capt., • Kingsford -Smith Says Food' iviissing' From Locker Sydney, New South Wales. -.Capt. Kingsford -Smith' of trans -Pacific fame, appeared recently befgre' the committee invesligating the, circum- stances of the recent mishap to the Sontherii .Cross ahii'tOld the story of the 'plane's flight from Richmond air- drome and of the forced landing near the •.Gleneig. River roll' orth'Western Australia. ' RATIONS MISSING Ile said that he and hie "ednip6nione had founid, tafter,t ie descent, that the emergency rations,. which .had been given them in America and which they kept in; one of -.the machines,hickers, were missing. He . could'not citplain how or why they had been rempved from the 'plane: Had thane rations noyith there *Weald have bee t enoegli lacen bbd t0'lest( the four mon a,eponth.,;• up In coeetion with the fail t,oFF4 the aviators to attempt to wa tai' the Port George. Mission Station,': which was ''eti'tir;abotit;$6 files distant, °apt. "Tp -day," said the Prince, "there are certain indications to show that the industries of this district which have; had a good deal of punishment during the last few retinas are not yet out of the ring but are fighting back: gallantly with a good northern peneli ” After giving statistics supporting this estatement, the Prince said the eehibition was an "announcement:"'to ;the whole world that the grd,{kt shop Of this industrial district 3s still open, exciting episode r r in an .ct g Mal figure, e When he dramatically rescued a man from being drawn into some machin- ery; shortly atter the official opening, In' describing the. •rescue .of the man, who was named Guinness, the foreman of the exhibition, an eye wit- ness, said that the thing happened in a flash. Guinness was sitting on a ladder adjusting a machine for the manufacture of tin containers, which i I o was gamin u 3 the Prince was e. g pointing out one of the intricacies In the pro -case When one' of the tins caught in the carriage, Guinness, •in snatching at the tin to save break= age, slipped off the ladder and hong With his feet within a few inches' of the machinery, which was rotating 'at great speed. The Prince grabbed at Guinness' overalls and pulled him towards' the ladder," said informant. "The over- alls slipped from the Prince's Band and. Guinness, w1Yo ,vas still clinging to an overhead gear, -swung back to his dangerous ;position: ' The •Prince. then seized hint the second tune and succeeded in pulling him back clear of the machinery. He would have lost his leg had he dropped. Germany &lies . King George's Warm Welcome Back` to Windsor King and Queen Loudly Ac- ' claimed on Motor Journey to Their Home Windsor, Eng.—King George came back to his own fireside in this anci- ent home. of British sovereigns. All, Windsor and the surrounding countryside were out to welcome their monarch back. 'Windsor was decorated as seldom before. Not a single house or shop on Castle Hill, or in the main street of the city, was without gay decorations. The Xing, accompanied by Queen Mary, had had a remarkable recep- tion throughout their We hour trip from Craigweli house, Bognor, where trte Xing ha depent several months. Bet it remained for 'Windsor to outdo all the others as it welcomed again it smost promineut resident. Thousands of cheering spectators, including 2,000 school children .and 1,000 Eton boys lined the t ancient' thoroughfare. - ` As the royal' car' drove through, bags of rose petals were emptied from windows and fell iu a crimson cascade :.aboat •'the, ma- chine, It was the first time most of the inhabitants of Windsor had seen the Xing since late last year. All along the line • there were cries of: ,"God bless your majesties!" and "Welcome hone!" At the bottom of Castle IIili which rices steeply" tap toward' the ancient gray stone pile- were waiting the Mayor and aldermen.. The royal car The Conservative Record Edinburgh Weekly •Scotsman (Cons.): The sneers of the opponent are the hest evidence that Mr. Bald- win has taken the line least to their liking, People have short memories and it Is well that they should be reminded of all the really big ad- vances the present Government has made towards international security, the restoration. of industry and agri- culture, the establishmeut of a better spirit in industry, the removal of local burdens and the consolidation of local governments, aj>td education, the ex- tension of pensions, the promotion of halted and the door near which the housing and slum clearing, the Bevel- Ring was sitting swung.open. .The oputeut of the resources of the Em- smiling face of the ruler appeared pire and last, but not least, the ex-. and he grasped the hand of the Mayor tension of the franchise to all adult as he said: ,yore°n. "Thank you very much. We are very pleased to be back in Wiudsor Canadian Week in Glasgow and I am very glad to see so many Glasgow Herald (Cons.) : It is to , Is determined to carry ou and is -pie- the housewives especially, of course, The King shook hands with the pared to meet all orders with the eadly° War Gas Left Over Supply ?laced in ;Vaults Under Cixound FINAL SOLUTION Only Meals of Destruction— Several Proposals. Failed Berlin 3n` ''coftta of.;roncrote, on feet beneath the curfaeo of the earth, turfing 'plants are working at or near the little city.. of •.Walen will' lay rte 'oapauity, and the volume of sprint great post-war ghost -Abe stem blister. mer)ehandieing is greater thaii at thle ing blue cross gee that forced soldiers time last year. to lift their masks in the face . 'of The metalworkingindustry is; par. death.tioularly. active in all its, branchee. Leering the war, blee, cross gas cut The output, of automobiles continues across No Meta's , Land, .staving theion a•scaio above that of any mood - way for the lungrdostroying •yellow ing; year. In, addition to large domes* tic" Buying of cars; the foreign field is ' enlarging steadily, In tite `first' guar. r. ter 9f this 'year; production was more than double tliat of the like period in Canada's Trade Is Above That of Last Year Trend of 'Business and 'lnidus•+ try Upward—Auto Out» pili Breaking Records Ottawa, Canada.—.Deports from ail sections Of Canada 'indicating the trend of trade during the last week aro 'highly Yavorabl0. Most manufac- gross gas. 'Perhaps tate greatest plant' for' its manufacture was•con- etrueted at Wahn, about 20• miles front, Cologne. ; ;<' • ' , ', • In accordance with the, Versailles Treaty the plant was .seraPped, but the .great supply of .gas defied .clispo- sitien For top years tee• community struggled with the problem, and every mean's practical, theoretical and bi- zarre'vfas given trial. • ' At first they tried'to burn the gas hitt the farmer's declared their crops' were being; - ruined. Neutralizing prncessesdfailedto Preclude results. A suggestion that the Aug.be buried. at sea .was rejected when it was consid- ered that its might be dangerous, to• transport the gas ' up the Rhine. M'oreover, Sshernien''objedted' strenu ously. citizens here." '• highest traditions of a not uuworthy past?' The exhibition, the; Prince contln- ied, was to "revitalize the existing indti"stries, to,discover hove they sltotild be adapted and if necessary improved," not only as .a general source of national income but"to pro- vide fresh chancels for labor in. an area that has had more itean its' fair share of hard times."! The Prince of Wales was the een that this Canada Week applies, as , rest of the delegation and the car theirs is the job of choosing and buy- ing the things which their husbands swallow without a thought as to whether they are eating Empire goods or not. Nor do many housewives give much thought to this point view either. what they look for is something good that is not too dear, And in. Canadian goods they find that Canada can produce everything, al- most everything that is needed for the home except tea, coffee and spices. `, then swung up the hill toward home. Compromise Solution Meanwhile, as a compromise solu- tion, the gas had been stored in about three feet of soil •ixiiiler the !factory, but the soil was sandy, sndt it was believed; 1t woiilil • infect the', subsoil water. When the factory was die - mantled, it was feared theigas might rise through the soil to pol-nte¢ the air above it, a fear intensifladR by the e Hamburg gas leak dleaste . So"the authorities cast about, for final solu- "Safeguarding" in Britain Sydney. Bulletin:. "Safeguarding" has got so far that there are 169 specified nays of running' against a stiff Customs duty in the British tariff, and John Bull has hardly :a mane- facturiug industry that makes ,a de- cent living now without protection. English Sports Believe in Rough Going trial' with his Textile mills, as te Whole, .continue. to be felly employed and unfilled Or - dere on hand on May 1st were said to 11e in excese .of those ,of the previ- ous year, Furniture' factories' report a normal condition with sales to date in excess of last year, Agricultural implement manufacturers are operat ing,on full .them. Although the weather has peen un- .; seasonably. cool, seeding' in the West has been carried on without interrup- tion during the last week end taae• ad- vanced rapidly in all sections, with the exception of Southern Alberta, where excessive , moisture retarded operations. In Central' Alberta fully sixty per cent. of the wheat is sown. Summing up the wheat crop situa- tion, the ituation,-the "Nor'West Farmer," Winni- peg, says :"We do not look for any great increase in 'wheat acreage this year and venture to dcpecast that the increase, if any, will not exceed five per cent. above last year's'. acreage, which was given ofiiciall as 23,158,505 y acres, or about eight per cent. above" the area of the 1927 wheat crop. As- suming that an increase of five per The new plan called Sot tevo vast cent. materializes, the West's wheat hermetically -sealed, utede]Ggroun.d I field this year will measure24,316 (430 fa•P.F." vaults, one of which is still) under con- struction. A crew of m104in gas masks, rubber suits and , thickly - padded gloves and shoes, was eng ag- ed to remove the blue doss• gas what it is hoped will be itis last rest- ing Place. Officials similarly garbed and the city physician wete ,on hand tars, boots and shoes and all lines of to helpout in case of em$rgency. � footwear aro moving well.' Sales of The completed vault was ,built by � dry goods ;are satisfactory and ladies'. Domestic trade conditions are re- ported to be satisfactoryin all parts of the country. • In the Msrithre Provinces a good volume of business is`reported'by the wholesale trade. In Montreal and other Quebec cen- digging a pit 20 feet below 'the sur- face of the ground. The Wails are of six_•inch concrete, scraped and tarred•, to seal cracks. The, floor is liecldedlwith a one foot layer of water -impervious clay, and the sides are two feat deep in thet same sub- stance, when the vault' was filled, a roof of tar, concrete an,`d °lay was placed over it, and on top • of this about ten feet of earth, Railways Canada's � ::. Make Big Gatin•°In 6 Years' Eainigs Sir Henry Thornton; Ascribes Increase to BetterB'usi- nes; in Dominion Port Iiuron., Mich. -Increase of $55,- 50,000 in the net earnings of Eke Cana- dian National Railways wring the past six years was annoui9ced ley Sir Henry Thornten, president and chair- man -of the board of directors, during a banquet in his honor here attended by citizens and railwaymen of Sarnia, Ont., St.' Clair and. Port Huron, Mich. Sir Henry ascribed the present pros- perity of the railways to general im- provement of business conditions in Canada; the support given the road by both political parties without poli- tical patronage or interference, and to the "splendid response from officers and men of the road," IIe also announced plains for the erection of a 2,000,000 bushel' elevator in Port Huron, which will . receive grain from lake, vessels lin the fall and unload for rail transportation dur- ing the winter. Construction: onthis elevator, which is backed ley large Canadian interests, will start this slimmer. In connection with this pro- ject, the 'Continental Ice ICO/teeny is about to build a plant to dost -$300,000 in this city to provide far cold stor- age and refrigeration, it .was an- nounced. fair Courts of Div, rce • Quebec Bvenement (bide: Every - 'body knows that a court of justice will take at least a whole dot and often several days to inver�tigatet A single petition for divorce, if the com- mittee of the Senate were to show an equal desire to vendor 4 considered judgment on every regaesl fids: divorce• creasing their demands for the prod- submd hem, hey, would haacts of this canary. With a, little to devotittee an to entthe yearttol{tliis duty,ve orgauizatiou our agriculture will not whereas they are seen totdilxDose in a suffer at all and, what Is more, our few weeks of several) 'hundreds of exports to the United States will con- petitions. The procedure actually. tiuue. The new increase fn cus practised is in nom o way 'satisfactory, toms clutles will Int tbo Americaii wear maintains a good volume. Business in most '•wholesale lines in Western Canada is •brisk, and in some cases volume has exceeded the similar period of last year. Sales of hardware, machinery and automobile accessories are reported to• have been especially: goad in Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and other large centers. According to themonthly bank statement just issued, call loans out. side Canada decreased' from $828,133,- 789` in February to $292,486,693 in March. On the other hand, current loans in Canada moved from, $1,248,- 466,643 in. February to $1,202,509,127, in March. Current aoans.outside Can- ada' also showed an. increase. •Note circulation increased from 3162,332,- 853 162,332,853 in February to $188,726,256 in March. . The Ontario Government's $26,000, 000 thirty-year bond issue, was, awarded to a syndicate headed by the.'•, National City Company. The bid was. $99.15 or 5.Q5 percent, practically oil' a par basis. Under present conditional of the money market, the loan is con- sidered highly satisfactory. Forty- two ortytwo tenders were submitted. Extensive works are planned by the Canadian National Railways for the coming season. The program as out:. lined includes the laying of 110 miles of steel, the placing of 676,000 cubic yards of ballast, the erection of many, stations and loading platforms. It is expected that construction of tate Hudson .•Bay Railway will be suf- ficiently advanced to permit operation by next autumn. Work on the line is being forwarded with great rapidity, Track laying was continued during the winter months and Churchill ter- y minus reached on March 29. Exports' of all grades of nickel from Canada fo rthe month of April, as re- ported by the Federal Government, amounted to 7,128,500 pounds valued at $1,770,982, as compared with S 939, 109 pounds with a valuation of $1,410;- 462 in April, 1928. For the first four months of this year the increase in volume above the corresponding peri, od in 1928 amounted to 11,504,900 pounds, The American Tariff Ottawa Brett (Inde : Those who are likely to suffer most are not the Can. adian farmers. They leave at their doora a local market which lasts froth year to year and further afield foreign markets, which are continually lit' As soon as the ,principle befdivorce is admitted by our law, [the practice should be regulated in a 'atlionai man• ner, and we believe th t the con=. troversy which has been Weed in the House of Commons wild hitve as its affect the introduction all e,'usefnl re - ferrel :'. Nothing ees stale as uickly as a Cs.n'ls" are the curse of Avon,. N n g s communis aA' 5 Geor a rifest'; mind when he sto�is:'ttsing it. ! 1'•- g °• consumer most of all, who will be bound to pay more for necessary, conntodities, and the American farm- ers titenisoives, wito, thoigh they male profit by a higher price for their pro• ducts, will have to boar their share of ors rise + in the cost of living,