HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-10-31, Page 2Canadian. Exports ,
Within Empire Are
Much On Increase
Trade With United Kingdom,
However, Shows Fall-
ing Off
(lanada'o external trade la being o*
Welshed upon a broader Wats. It to
peoomiag less dependent mum a few
countries. and thus ap8oars to be legs
Bettie to sudden fiuotnations. These
interferences are based upon a cern-
pariaon of eight months' trade over
the last five yeare, In that period ex.
Ports to the United Kingdoms have
been falling off, while those to other
Parts of the Empire have been grove-
ing. -
Exports to the United Statee have
been advancing but moderately only.
Tho most strikiug development bag
been ht exports to other foreign coun-
tries. .Imports from the [Tutted King-
dom are somewhat higher now than
they were in 1925 but exports of Cana -
Man produce to that country are low-
er,
From other countries, within the
Empire, imports are higher as are al-
so exports. Imports from tate United
Kingdom, in the eight months of 1925
were valued at 5100,056,000,
Exports to U. K. Less
For the eight months of the present
year their value was 5128,906,000, Ex -
porta of Canadian produce to the
United Kingdom in 1925 were $233,-
852,000, In the present year the value
has reached only $169,266,000.
Imports from other countries with. -
in the Empire for the Dight months
have risen from $28,055,000 in 1925 to
$43,977,000.
Exports et Canadian produce to
other Empire countries in 1925 were
$48,390,000 and In the present year
$68,270,000.
Imports from the United States in
the first eight months of 1925 were
valued et $378,825,000. In the present
year the value was $625,683,000. Ex•
ports to the 'United States in the same
comparison have advanced from $293,-
532,000 to $342,044,000. Imports from
other foreign countries in the eight
months of 1925 were $65,593,000 and
for the eight months of the present
year rose to 591,75,000. Exports of
Caaadiau produce to other foreign
countries advanced from 9127,360,000
in 1925 to 9196,244,000 in the present
year.
Ex9o1•te of Canadian produce have
shown a decline during the present
Year but this falling off has been
Derailed once before in the quinquen-
nium.
33y 1926 total exports had readied
a value 9755,150,000,
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EXPLORATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE
PATROLS IN NORTHERN CANADA
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Lord Wiilingdon \ Extend Aiar Magi t
Lays Cornerstone Far Northern n Po t
Governor General Receives, Service to Settlements in Mac -
Honorary Degree from
McMaster
tiatnitton, ,- ., _His PxceiloneY
kenzie Valley Will Be-
gin on November
26
V'leoount willingdon, Grovernor-GenA new link will be forged in the
oral ot Canada, last week declared main of aerial mall services binding
the cornerstone of McMaster lJnlver- Canada's groat expanses closer to.
silty "well and truly -laid," The Liu- gother, //hen the' 11'tcillurrayAklavlk
orary.degree of Doctor of Laws was service le placed in operation in No -
conferred upon His Excolleuey by vember by honorable P, J. \eniot,
Chancellor Whidden, on behalf of the Postmaster General. Within the last
university, few weeks final arrangements for the
In speaking of McMaster'' wander-- weeteerattote oe tele ail -the -year-round'
fu1 record, Lord Willingdon drew at- service' were completed at Ottawa and.
tontion to its achievements in the the TIrst mail will leave Eclmont'on
Pant, and mentioned; the fact Oat on November 26. It will be carried
many of its graduates are Indere on by train to McMurray where the
the Continent to -day. sacks will be loaded fn. a Commercial ,
"Those who guide the affairs now ,Airways meet -tine for the twelve points
have in view a more olilciee:'educe- of call _between there and the end of
the 2 Q00 mile route at Aldavik in
Donal system in a larger unive"s'ay
in beautiful 'surroundings,' he said.
"Periods of distress and diieculty'
have been overcome, and those res-
ponsible for the. affairs of AtaMaster
must be well satistied this 'afterncon.
While denominational in its founda-
tions, it is undenominational to grad-
uates entering its fold, and I am glad
to learn that to young men and Wo.
lion who will attend in future it will
be largely residential in character.:'
No Aur Mail Lost
In Service to Date
New Department Grows
Steadily in Mileage and
Poundage
le } ,•�/`( tet 1 ,i Never once Melee the Post 311100
e ( 'gip°v 3 Department took over the air mail
l `e' 1 N i have the mails carded by
Wild -. �••�
followed by Government officers in the carrying out of Anspect1ons, Dainnie - Dianetfailedeto reach.
the their
destination
M-
end
Arctic Activities—The above nap shows the approximate routes
a be seen the course of the inspection trip made by Mr, C. •S.1' s
°
of
• ,res
,,...n.... a services v
ti lir destination
and iDireecor f the Na in the I regions of the Dn Braion. Ih the western down
may ellen Mounted Poona
Territories and Yukon Branch,. which tock flim down the Mackenzie valley and back through
GY RoyalYGana The investigations
of Mr. or of the B.
Boa West t
r o l dH.I atBeare east a Great Stave lake, of is h T. Bur Wash along the by tihoee88. Be thac,te iolr. George P. Mackenzie in charge, on her 7,800 -
mile
indicated, In the eastern Portion of the map is shown the course followed of the R.C.M.P.; Mr, J. D. Soper's investigations in Foxe penln-
are also
daring the 1,800 -nae lied 2,300 o Melville island accomplished
ar t patrols
1 I Inspector eAns i Joy,
miles; and regular by the Bache Peninsula, Pond Inlet, Pangn'irt lno, h� Lake n. OHarbour of thocDepartm Department of
sola during which he travelled A.
A survey of ha shoresmand islands the,C. Janco bay carried out bel Messrs, it E'in their respective investigations pad patrols brought to a completions in
the 192. This and members of the Departs. cnt of dN approximately 49,Ott miles
This map, supplied by the Department of Natural Resouxces, Ottawa, i9 of .particular interest in view of the McAlpine Relief Expedition. working
1929.
around Chesterfield Inlet and north west from there.
Welland nal o Liquor Smuggling
Pilots
Ott a �t Elements services operated by the post trace The following rates o postage
Says $1 l 0,� Figures Are Made Public by between Montreal and Detroit and be- bent lfot'dtnailtlmattert too be convey -
between
crease in miles flown and ponnclage
carried, In December, 1927, when the
service was inaugurated the total mile•
age was 872 mid .the' poundage 2,260.
In August of this year 41,738 pounds
of mail was carried and 57,102 miles
were actually -flown, being leas. than
400 mites below the scheduled dis-
lance. In February, 1929, more than
60,000 hounds of mail were flown,
The most popular rc uta is that from
Montreal to Rimouski where the
planes connect with the trans-Atlantic
liners. More than 11,000 pounds of
the mouth of the Mackenzie river.
For rho winter months a weekly ser-
vice will be provided 10 teeidents. at
Chipewran, Fitzgerald, Fort Smith
and Resolution, in. all twenty return
trips being made to these 011110 dur-
ing the coining winter; Hay
Providence, and Simpson will receive
mail From the south appraxntately once
a month while the more northerly
posts at Wrigley, Norman, Good Hope,
Arctic Red River, McPhersrn and
Aklavik will be served by three win-
ter matt deliveries from Edmonton.
The nails for the farthest north poste
will olose at Edmonton on November
26, January 21, and March 25 and the
return mails from these points will
arrive in the Albertan 'oapital on De-
cember 13, February 7 and April 11.
The new servioe will . be an im-
mense advance on the winter service
provided in other years and will cone
far an inestimable benefit on the rest -
dents of the posts along the Atha-
baska, Slave and Maciceniee rivers, In-
cidentally it wilt constitute the farth-
est north regular air mail service in
the world, Heretofore the winter
service to Aklavik consisted of
tw
dog,o
, trains restricted to 260 1
of first" class mail per train. Tho
frequency of mails during the sum
mer months will, of course, be much
greater, about double that ,outlined
above•
This notable extension of Canada's
air mail service will bring a remote
but [mpertant region of the Domin-
ion's vast northland in closer touch
�biliz�n Sub -Arctic a l�
e ) 1 Open Next Year To US. Decreases mail went by airplane over this route with the outside world both socially
(� A l6 in the -month of August The new and commercially, f have
art -
Chief Engineer S y twtW0 Toronto and Buffalo are prey- The North Country Sees Forces Prepare to Put Stern Fight 000,000 Already Spent SecretaryLowman of ing iy p p est over this air mail rout:—
Into Search for Lost Explorers on Work Treasury d 8 314 First Class ma
respondence t
opular, especially the latter
which: in August oonveye
pounde,
A pare from the sudden drop in the
figures both fcr mileage and pound-
age due to the withdrawal of the
winter -services, there is a steady rise
h. The servioe has got Ear
in bot
beyond the experimental stage and
there is now little risk of loss of mall
arising merely out of the fact that it
air.
is being carried thetltrough.
The Post Office is constantly inau-
gurating new services, the latest be-
ing that from Fcrt McMurray to
This
Alilavttc in the Arctic circle,
service will be given eight times a
year. ,
Winnipeg.—Canada is fighting a money or effort and they will keel) uP ug "It is hoped to open the Welland Washington —Evidence that the
of as increase ofgovernment' M succeeding in its in-
stant battle Northland.
the Arctic Barren the search all winter. , tensive campaign to stop liquor smug -
1927 0,000 over the ped, they
s year In Lands of its Nortltlaud. planes are equipped with Vevey lights canal on Dominion Day next year,"
l which can be seen by day as well as said Alexander J. Grant, chief engineer filing across the Canadian border, as
1927 on the other hand, they dropped 'She price in the lives of Dominion
on Ill i S theyshould be able to f thecanal in a recent interview. seen by officials in figures made pub -
signal
back to $734,64A,000. In the eight ars belonging Lo the Domhiion Ex-�
}
b ni ht. o s ou to an
y g
to any pilots passing within 20 The opening of the gate lock at rho tic by Assistant Secretary Lowm
Ontario ead was a local .affair and „Quite a reduction," in the amount
when locks one, two and three are I of liquor cleared from Canadian ports
sed next Spring, the emotion will o in the vicinity
opo for the United States
be purely of local interest, too. But of Detroit, was reported by Lowman,
we think that the opening of the who has charge of the Treasury's pro•
ibibition enforcement efforts.
Only 48,625 cases were cleared last
month, he said, in comparison with
54,520 in August, and 154,439 in Sep-
tember, 1928. Muelt of this, he added,
never reached the United Statse, be-
ing seized en routs, or smuggled back
into Canada, alter being cleared as
a means of evading the Dominion's
liquor 'tax.
Expressing gratification over the
showing, he aaeribed it to the addi-
tion of enforcement agents and coast-
guard personnel to the prohibition
-forces in the Detroit area sad increas-
ed vigilance oa their part since the
vigorous anti -smuggling campaign
was undertaken there several menthe
ago.
You are worthless if yon
something only to yourself,
mouths ot 1928 they had again ad-_ plovers. to 40 miles of thorn.
preyed to 5800,245,000,hefureand for the Moments count is this battle. The situation is complicated by the
present year exportsx figure is betw$775,een
192.
The dropin as between 1920 Winter is rushing down from the 1gact that this is between seasons in
e stand with bated breath, the North, planes cannot use either
1927months period, Pole, Poops i
the eight I
E e0
dna
or g
I
was thus very close to the decline
t
present
which has taken place in he
year. In the present year, this de-
cline has been due very largely to a
falling off in the exports of wheat. A
very similar situation prevailed in
1927.
Jealous of Soldiers
Masked Men Strip London-
derry Girl Dancers of
Their Clothes
Londonderry, Ireland.—A sensation-
al story of a holdup by masked men,
who stripped them of their clothes
and threatened to shoot them, was
told here Saturday night by 22 Lon-
donderry girls who started out for a
dance given by British soldiers, and
returned wrapped in blankets.
The girls left here for the dance in
a large truck. They were en route to
one of the Lough Swi11y Forts when
a baud of fourteen masked men stop-
ped the truck and forced them to
alight. The men then stripped them
of their stockings, shoes, party dress-
es and other clothes, all of which were
thrown into a pile and burned,
The girls and chauffeur were then
lined up and the masked melt said
they were going to be snot.
One of the girls, however, sprang la
front of the chauffeur and cried:
"He is my husband; it you are go-
ing to shoot him, shoot me first." I the country in a systematic combing of
It was then discovered that two di
the l rritpryBase�viuter search are being
the girls had escaped and ran toward
the station of Civic Guards. The opened up at Baker Lake, near Chost-
meskod mon dispersed and Civic
Guards arrived shortly afterward.
They supplied the ,girls with blankets
and accompanied theist back here,
Officials expressed the belief that
the .ontrage was committed by men
who were jealous because the girls
were going to a dans given by British
soldiers.
recalling, perhaps subconsciously, the ;skis or pontoons with safety. They
expeditions of Henry Hudson, Frank- must soon halt until ice forms on the whole length is a matter of national
lin Scott, and those other martyrs to numerous fakes there. Similarly the interest'
Aretio cold. {
Eskimo rescue parties are tied up un` "Ninety-three per cont. of the work
'n
on
e-
travel t s
ice about
• m wh hem toI
Winnipeg is the hale from til ice like estis now completed and to date
the generals in this battle operate., thing 'flee asystematic search over $110,000,000 have been spent. Some
of the Treasury
They have many airplanes some of the barren lands which must hold the of the work that remains to be done
the most valiant pilots facing condi- secret of the position at the missing
tions as deadly as those of the Great'flyers.
War, where the life of a Pitot was 1 ;.
three weeks. PERSONALITY
And they hove the redoubtable Col.
Mad
I Personality is a combination of he
James Cornwall, "Peace River
organizing Eskimo hunters and trap-dividual qualities developed to the of the gate lock, which has already
!highest degree of excellence. been opened and is one of the longest
pees at Baker and Beverley Lakes and in the world, Mr. Grant said that as
the foundation was of rook it was
thought that the labor involved in
building a Iarge leek there would be
no greater than that involved in ex-
cavating a canal and it was decided
to build a large basin in order to give
quick access to the canal to a large
number • of vessels.
it will be impossible to do till the
shipping is transtsrred from the old
to the new canal. This is work at the
intersections of the new and the old."
Asked for the reason for the length
Bathurst Inlet t0 help in the search.
C. H. Dickens, war ace, and among
the most dauntless flyers of the Cana-
dian North, has clown solo from Fort
Smith to Coronation Gulf and return,
Russia and China are beginning to
understand each other now. That's
what makes 'ern mad.—Arizona Pro-
ducer,
Smith
nearly 2,000 miles, picking up one I Secretary Mellon says that the "I'm
party of prospectors and reporting Alone" was sunk under the Tariff Act,
"no trace" of the missing men.. i The ultimate consumer will know how
Immediately he turned the nose of she Celt.—The New Yorker.
Ms piano back into the North arriv.
ing at Port Smith. From there leo
flies on a three-day jaunt to Fort Re-
Iiance and makes a 500 -mile look
northeast, south and back to Reliance.
Pilots Roy Brown, victor over the
"Red Knight of Germany," and Andy
Cruikshanks are coudttcting as brave
a battle, if not se spectacular, against
the barren lands to tete east. They
are at Baker Lake and they plan to
fly though to Bathurst inlet, there
to report back by radio and awit the
starting of the Eskimo parties across
Rectify evils whilst small, and
check wrongs lest they grow and and is three times larger than Caen
overwhelm thee. Britain.
,_„q Meanwhile the lost liven have been
The saloons will never, never return. missing since September 8, They
The filling stations have ail the prom() have oitly otto montlt'a supply of food
tient corners, -Florida Times•Unlon. I with them. and they are equipped with
Tine verde and an insinuating only primus gasoldue stoves which
poacanta are seld<m aasectated with boforo the gesethie supply is „dictate
erfieid Inlet, at Stony Rapids, on the
eastern extremity of Lake Athabasca
in northern Saskatchewan and at Du-
bawut Lalce, North West Territories.
Bathurst Inlet and a dozen other
radio and supply bases will be hooked
n0 is the combing of a vast territory
extending 900 miles east and west and
300 mites north and south and extend-
ing 200 sties into the Arctic. The
area is 270,000 square miles in extent
ap. { will be useless unless they were lit
virtue.
led.
I,. keep Wendt about many things, Brig, General D. 117 hogarth, who is
for do not want to put people out of is charge of the search for Dominion
countenance; and Tam well content Explorers, lays hie company is not
if they ate pleased with things that even considering the queetlon et ex -
annoy roe. --Goethe, '.pease.- They Intend to spare n0
are worth
The Kind of "Tundra" Facing the McAlpine Relief Expedition
Wild Bird Crop
increases € : ap dly
Hastings Sanctuary is Protect-
ing and Increasing Game
Birds in that Section
A note from Belleville says that the
bird sanctuary controlled by the Jack
Miner League of Hastings, which is
situated near that town had over 500
Canadian geese thisspring and many
more are expected to rest there this
fall during their migration to the
south. The sanctuary was inaugur-
ated with geese presented by Jack
Miner.
Over 190 wild dudes have been
raised tliis year, which have been re-
leased but not tagged, Three years
ago three pairs et mourning doves
were imported to the sanctuary and
this there were more than 200 nests
In very small area. The sanctuary
contains 15 acres.and Is heavily wood-
ed.
tter, i.e. genuine cor-
a the regular and ordin-
ary form of a letter, two cents per
ounce or fraction thereof. (Parcels
Prepaid at letter rate will not be ac-
cepted.)
ws
a.
• matter, tD
r te.
ue n n
Class to
Second Ga
eo
Sc
•fou
r
ors and perlcdicats, one neat per
ounces.
Third Class matter, i.e., printed
t
per
ns
w cents n
m1
es etc., a two r
samples, p
a
hereot.
ounce or fraction t
Parcel Post (Merchandise) .rates
for a pound or fraction thereof: To
Chipewyan, Fitzgerald, Fort Smith,
Resolntic.n, clay haver and Provid
once, 50 cents; to Simpson, Wrigley,
Norman; and Good Hope, 75 cents;
and to Arctic Red River, McPherson
and Aklavik, one dollar.
Registration, insurance, etc., are ad-
ditional to the above.—"Natural Res'
educes".
CHEERFUL PROSPECT FROM ROCKBOUND SHORES OF LONELY BAFFIN LAND
Baffin Land Otero, showing Eskimos and canoe and equipment used by J. D, Soper, government explorer, in
recent explorations.
New ' iglaway Advocated
St, Catharines, Ont,—A new high-
way to relieve the frequent couges,
Lion on provincial highway No, 8 from
Hamilton to Niagara . Falls, was re-
commended in the Grand Jury at the
tall assizes in their presentment to
Mr. Justice Raney.
Mr, .Justine Raney in his charge to
the Jury spoke in strong terms of the
increase of accidents due to drunken
drivers. The jury We serious con -
(Adoration to the matter and dealt as
follows with it in their presentment
"The grand jury views
Norwegian Ships
Rush t'' '�1>A'ttarctic
Hope to Claim Territory to
Prevent Paying Whal-
ing Royalties
New York.—The New York Times
publishes the following special cable
from Cape Town, South Africa:
Two Norwegian vessels are making
a dash for the antarctic with the ob-
tact of raising thie Norwegian flag
along unknown stretches of the coast
in advance of Sir Douglas Mawson's
Australian antarctic expedition.
13y claiming antarctic territory, the
Norwegians hope to avoid paying
royalties, to Britain or `Australia on
the 'enormous numbers oe whales
caught annually in those waters.
Evan Morgan's Indiscretions
Toronto Star (Ind.): The Canadian
Government must improve the amen-
ities (of the Peace River country)„
says the Hon. Evan Morgan, before
settlers from Britain will come there.
What ho overlooks is the fact that so
Ear as the Peace River country id
concerned settlers can take it or
leave it. The law that governs pion-
eering the world over is that those
who want the amenities must take
with great them with t1ern, plant them and es-
tablish them. A country is what its
the menace to public safety presented pioneers make it. If settlers from
by the groat increase fn motor tralflc ` pingland don't want the Peace River
and agrees that every means' should country, other settlers do want it and.
be undertaken to avoid loss of lite' will possess it.
and injury to persona"
The FIJI Islanders own 1,074 auto-
mobiles 110W. The day will comp
when all cannibal tribes will use them crime more dastardly, no act more
instead of spears, Kay Features. cowardly . than the abandonment of
There has been•a lot of talk about a highway victim by the man wlto
spinach having health -giving qualit-
les, and we wonder why nobody has
tried to emphasize that it can also
give a person a lot of grit, ---Judge.
66Bit-and-Run" Drivers
Vancouver Sun (Lib.): There ig 110
struck lust down. Public opinion
n
will not, much longer, nounte anee
the canape of such criminals, 10 will
demand heavy-itauded justice, and will
not be' content' until it gets it,