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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1923-08-02, Page 2Vancouver en Fete to Receive. Chief Executive of the Repnb- iic — Dominion'% Distinguished. Guest Delivers ...Eloquent `Address. A despatch from Vancouver says:=:- and 'the United States presents an More than 40,000 persons heard Prost- excellent example 'to other parte of dent Warren G. Harding deliver a the world •the President said a signi- message-o£ warm friendship and ad- ficant'symptom of the growing mutu- ality of tha twocountries appeared in miration for Canada: ,Realizing the the fade that a voluntary exchange significance of the occasion—the first of residents,. wholly free from restric- time a holder of his high, office has tions, has been going' on. "Our nu- visited Canada -the reception accord- tural and industrial exigencies have ed` him along the line of march and made it necessary for us, greatly to at Stanley Park, where the address our regret to limit immigration. But was delivered, was most :impressive in there is no quota for Canada. We its enthusiasm. gladly welcome all your sturdy, steady, The President himself frankly ad- stock who care to come, as a strength - ratted far exceeded ening ingredient and influence." miffed that thaw g g expectations of himself or his party' On the historic moment when the and; declared that he regarded it as -a President set foot on Canadian soil new assurance that the Dominion' of the first gun of the 21 -gun artillery Canada and the United States will go salute sounded. Escorted by General along hand-in-hand, ide-by-s1de, to- Victor Odium, the naval' officers and ward fulfillment of the destinies of ,members of the United States .Cabinet, the two great democracies.. the President inspected the guard of The manifestations of welcome' were honor, which on his arrival presented continuous, beginning Thursday morn- arms, while the baud struck up "The ing when the naval transport Header- Star Spangled 13anner." son, bearing the president and his party from Alaska, steamed into Bur- rand Inlet and received from the Brit - Mb light ritfish.light cruiser Curley a salute of 21 guns, and continuing until 9.80 o'clock de night when, after attending a state dinner given by the Governments of the Dominion and of the Province of British Columbia; Mr. Harding re- turned to the Henderson for the over- night voyage to Seattle. -It was a wel- come bespeaking friendship and cordi- ality not alone for the man himself, but for the great nation he repre- sented. Declaring that the traditional friendship existing between Canada that. nation. Some time was taken up with the inspection. The President showed keen interest in the officers and men, many of whom wore numerous medals, indicating long and splendid service in the battlefields overseas. Then the President was escorted back to where Dominion, Provincial and civic authorities presented official addresses of welcome, expressing keen appreciation of .the more than a cen- tury of peace between the two nations, a keen desire of promoting still more friendly trade relations and .admira- tion for the nation itself and genuine cordiality for the men representing LEVIATHAN OUTDIST- ANCED TORPEDOES • 'WOUNDED 1N' TORONTO BANK ROBBERY CSteeling Bank messenger, who was shot through the lung D, ix banditsell, S g when six bandits' made a murderous attack on bank messengers in the heart of Toronto's financial -district. The lose sustained by the banks, acoording to their own officials, le between eighty ane a hundred•tizousand dollars in currency," W. S. Duck, on right, Union Banle messenger, was scot just above the heart, :Blood transfusion was resorted to in hie case and he is in a cri- tical condition. The bandits made a clean getaway. U. S. COAL, MINERS SET FORTH TERMS Cheek -off and Cosed Shop, Ix- cluded . in • Demands - Operators Refuse.• lowing letter through the post: "Darling,, on,Monday at 6 -p.m. I'll A despatch from Atlantic Gity, N. expect ect you at Odins lace.. I'll Wait J„ says;—Fall recognition of the un - until 7 but you must be sure to ion, the check -off and the closed shop;- come. ESTER." were demanded of the anthracite op The Am examined the letter close - g ly and found the postmark had obliter- Speed as Transport Enabled Big Ship to Outrace 8 U -Boats. A despatch from Paris says :—The recent speed record of the Leviathan has reminded Admiral Degouy that even when the liner was a transport she had enough speed to outrace eight German torpedoes. One morning in 1918, he relates, the Leviathan was :bringing in 13,000 American troops;:to Brest. Four sub- marines were sighted, set in position to fire a broadside as_ the vessel steamed past. The Leviathan opened fire with four -inch guns and the sub- marines submerged in order to ap- proach nearer and launch their tor- pedoes. As soon as their periscopes disap- peered the Leviathan's engines began racing and when the U-boats came up again, each with two torpedoes ready, they were far astern, having sadly misjudged the liner's.speed. They fired their torpedoes anyway, but . the Leviathan was going so fast they never overhauled her. Cathedral of Liverpool Now Half Built. King Gets Letter Sent to Sailor's Sweetheart. A despatch from London says:— In Stockholm a few days ago'King Gustav of Sweden received the fol- erators by John L. Lewis on r g Thurs- day, as the price for fiirthei discus- ated:the name of a sailor aboard the r eros of a wage contract that will keep training, ship King Gustav,' with the bags included; Bran, per ton, $26 to the hard coal mines open after August result that the letter was forwarded' $26; shorts, per ton, $27 to $29; arid- 31, when the present contract expires.to the royal palace. filings, $83 to $35; good feed flour, The operators declined to submit ands Later that day officers in the train- $2.15 to $2.25, a hasty adjournment was taken in the mi ship received the message that by Ontario wheat —No, 2 white, nom - hope that overnight one side or the order of the Bing, Ester's sweetheart anal* other will recede from its position, Ontario No. 2 white oats -46 to 48c. That either side will recede appears was to be given a holiday the follow- Ontario corn—Nominal per cent: at. PR MLI I AND ,CABINET GO .DOWN TO DEFEAT IN P. E. I. ELECTIONS A despatch from Charlottetown, P. E. I., says :—The Conservatives made. alinost a clean sweep in the Provin- cial elections on Friday, the Bell Gov- ernment coming out of the debacle with only four seats out of thirty,'ac- cording to what• are—practically com- plete returns. The Oppositioncarriedthe whole ten seats in'King's County, where the leader, J, D. Stewart, K.C.,.was run- ning. In Queen's County the result was aline Conservatives and one Libeled. In Prince County' three Liberals and seven Conservatives were elected. . Every' member of the Bell Govern- ment was defeated in"almost every case by large. majorities. • The new Opposition leader will probably be A. G. Saunders, K.C,, �.f Summerside, who has, as his follow- ers, his colleagues W. IL Dennis, m the second district of Prince;` Creel man McArthur, of Summerside, and J. C. Irving, of Cherry Valley. The Government members defeated in addition to the Premier wore: Icon. Walter M. Lea, Coin, of Agriculture and Provincial, Secretary; Hon. Cyrus W. Crosby, Com. of Public Works, and the following members of the Govern- ment without,portfolio:' Hon, G. E. Hughes, Hon.• Robert H. Cox, Hon.. David Macdonald, Ilon. .Fredcrick J. Nash and Hon. Jeremiah Blanchard. Hon. James J. Johnston, Attorney General, was 'not nominated for the present elections, The weather was fine and a large vote was polled, Women voted for the first in an island Provincial elec- tion. World Champion Once More, Mlle. Suzanne. Leuglee, who has once' more .proved herself. champion Woman tennis player' of • the world. This is the fifth year she has held the,•ehampionship. Canada From Coast to Coast. Vancouver•, B;C,—Lack of ships was 9 'r :�� { �; .w°; ':, the only, thing that could preventrkea�s2 1 r�r; Vancouver • from becoming a greater The Week grain port, Hon. J. H. King, federal minister of .public works, declared O. a Ws' r 3 ✓'f here. With the increase in Govern - Manitoba wheat—No..-=1 Northern, $1.15%. would,a said be. in a position to' 1 feed, 48i/xe h "i i F :err s h i, a vast amount of rain. rl •' ominal, �,.; :•;•,:-• ``>., handle vag Manitoba, ba ey-N All the above track, bay ports. M ?� r Calgary, Alta, --From 10,000 to 11,-, American corn—No..2 yellow, $1.08:x^ ,�N. <'`; 000 ha`avest hands will be required to Barley—Malting, 57 to r,9c, accord- 6 ' , " l . handle Alberta's estimated bumper ing to freights outside. �� �, kt ori ; , s*`h crop this fall, accordingto an-an- Buckwheat—No. n- u twheat—No. 3 nominal. P B cl, nouncement made by Walter Smitten, Rye—Nd 2, nominal::. 1.40' to 1:45. commissioner of labor. A complete Peas -No, 2, $ $ M'llfeed-Del , Montreal freights, f° survey made by the Government showed that the acreage in the Medi- cine Hat and Drumheller districts will be slightly less than in 1920, while the. acreage in the Calgary, Leth- bridge and Edmonton districts is con- siderably larger, Moose Jaw, Sask.—The rain in Saskatchewan in June was the heav- iest since 1914, according to the re- cords of the Dominion meteorological agent, J. K. Stevenson, of thio city, who compiles the records for . Saskat- chewan. The heaviest rainfall was at Arcola where 9.87 inches is recorded. Aneroid recorded 9,33 and Pennant 9.01 inches. - Leader had 7.37, Gull Lake 8.53. In the city of Moose Jaw 6.03 inches of rain fell, Brandon, Man.—Crops in the Bran- don district show an improvement since the recent rains which were gen- eral. The moisture was badly needed as the wheat was beginning to dry out. Coarse grains are doing splendid- ly and fodder crops are looking well. treaty, was brought out in bold relief For what is believed to be the !first by procedings in the Irish Senate on time, flax is being grown in this die- Friday afternoon in connection with trict, about 500 acres being seeded. the League of Nations Guarantee Bill Port Arthur, Ont—During the win - and the Land 13111. ter of 1922-23, 263,409 cords of pulp- Theformer i a bill to authorize the wood, 463,978 ties, 550,043 saw logs, Executive Council of the Free State 84,480 pieces of dimension timber, 805 to give certain guarantees to the telegraph poles and 9,000 cords of fuel League and to accept the regulations wood were taken from the forests of p the Thunder Bay district, this being lbs:, 24c; do, 8 to4 lbs., e., roosters prescribed by it.the largest cut on reeord, The'esti- 17c; ducklings, over 5 lbs., 30c; do, es the course' of the debate,:Des- to 5 lbs., 29c; turkeys, young, 10 lbs, :mond Fitb erald Foreign Minister mated value of the cut is about 54, - and up, 80c. 1 c• said the bili was introduced .in the 405,000. Beans—Can, hand-picked, b., 7 , 1 Senate to register an opinion Drummondville, Qua,—A new Mc - Bind s Gage, Dai and gl p P p y p p p Manitoba oats—No, 3 CW, 50e; No. stent handling facilities and the build- ing of private- elevators, the port most doubtful. Mr. Lewis in n !oxen- mg Monday. Ontario flour—Ninety1 p pat., al statement, insisting it must be full :*-- in jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship- ment, 55.10 to 55.20; Toronto basis, ship - recognition, the cheek -off and the dos- . .Y $5.05 to, 55.15; bulk seaboard, $4.95 to ed shop or nothing, while an equally55. A ,despatch from London says: - 1 The Cathedral of Liverpool has reach- ed the halfway' stage in its construc- tion this week, nineteen years after the laying ofthefoundation stone in the largest church ever built in Eng - len d. ng-lend. The size of the cathedral when fins fished will be exceeded only by St. Peter's of Rome, being approximately equal in size to the Cathedral of Seville and larger than that of Milan, Only three churches of cathedral rank haves. leen built in this country since the dissolution of. State. and Church. The Liverpool cathedral will be half as large again as St. Paul's in London, three times as large as the Roman Catholic cathedral In Westminster and live times the area of ruro. It will dwarf all the medieval churches in the country, exceeding by more than half the area of York'Minster, at: pres- ent the largest 'church :in England. Designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, a grandson of the. famous ecclesiastical architect, Sir Gilbert Scott, when he was only twenty-one years of age, the cathedral is a freeinterpretation of u fourteenth century Gothic, fo rte u y Go c, challeng-: ing. comparison with the work of the master masons in the Middle Ages. It is situated on the rocky mass of St. James Mount, in the centre of the city, ` more than 100 ;feet above the Our Guest. His Royal Highness, the Prince of -Voles, who ie coming to Canada in the early autumn, on a private visit, it is officially announced. lee will not Ito. debt any public engagements. Drop in Cattle Prices on English Market. A despatch' from London says:— Due numbers of Can- adian to considerable nu b E land stare cattle shipped to ng in the Spring being placed on the market, as well as English cattle, there has been a steady. weakening in prices during the last month. This Was accentuated by the hot, weather Mersey, and will be the dominating of the. last two or three weekt, so that g Canadian store and fat cattle which s.' feature of the city, seen by vessels month ago. were selling at sixty-five entering port. The King is expected to be present at the consecration of the choir in July of next year, but it is impossible to forecast when the great cathedral will be finally completed, as' it is be- ing built in sections, according to' the amount of money available. A brick chimney 88 feet high ie Maine was recently moved 8 feet with- out injury. Vancouver will have shipped about 19,000,000 bushels of grain when the crop year 1922-23 draws to a close um -er according statistics sa as the fi4nal decision of Kings and this. a m d g to iC is s,nticipated that the college will issued by the Vancouver Merchants' formal statement by Samuel D. War- 1�� i ?""' C\ �J�� `x� Vi'• .Man. flour-1stpatents,'in cotton river, spokesman for the operators, ms`"*' E ��rs ""�t `" sacks, $6.90 per bbl.; 2nd ats., 56.85. left no doubt theywill be as adamant s>{ 3 a � , Hay—Extra No.'2 timothy, per ton, aa, track Toronto, 5$15; No, 3 timothy, when the gavel the on Friday. ?sem $ xi • i . x 518; mixed, 512.50 to $13,50. This crisisinthe negotiations corn- a irn ' alt Straw—Car lots, per ton, track, To iii • at least ten days ahead of time, t� `.; rxhn 9.60. 8 q . yti ix a ronto, $ To - does not necessarily mean that the e v ya +• Cheese—New, large, 21c; twins, mines will close August 81, Nearly t a �t. 22c; triplets, 23c; Stilton:, 24c, Old, five weeks remain in which negotia-7 G�f t"` � ; <t t'`�• � large, 32c; twins, 23ae; triplets, 33c; tions may be resumed and the con- a x. Y aY r � Stiltons, .333Zc, New Zealand old tract comleted, ample time for the -i a t ,, , 1T�3 cheese, 30c. • P t s {a. ° Butter—Finest creamery prints, intervention by the Harding Ad- :: a 4 y o a 34c; ordinary creamery prints, 39c. ministration, 3 , 0" "i ? sf�ea�:,' ,, A later despatch says:—Anthracite scale negotiations were broken otl.`in- definitely at the Hotel Ambassador on Friday afternoon. Both sides seemingly await the effect at Wash- ington. Operators and miners met in joint subcommittees only to find the over- night truce had failed to soften the sudden deadlock on the demand for union recognition and the "check -off," Operators stood' on unequivocal rejec- tion. Millers reiterated the ultimatum that any renewal of the contract for 155,000 men in the hard coal fields September 1 was contingent upon ac- ceptance, shillings per .112 pounds or slightly over, sold on Thursday. at :fifty-five shillings per 112 pounds, or even lower. Oldest Colonial College to Move to Halifax. A despatch from Halifax, says:— The l3oard of Governors of King's College, Windsor, voted sixteen to seven to -night in favor of federation of their college •with Dalhousie Uni- versity' at Halifax. This is announce open lin Halifax this fall instead of fir. Windsor, . King's was founded in Windsor in the latter part of the eighteenth century and is, the oldest college in the British Dominions over- seas. It is sm Anglican institution. Exchange, During'the previous crop year about 6,750,000 bushels of, grain had been shipped. Up to the end of June, 18,316,687 bushels of the 1922 prairie crop had passed through Van. eouver. Adjournment was taken "subject to the call • of the Secretary at request Alberta Needs 10,000 Har - of either side." Miners, in fighting mood, at first urged adjournment "sine die," but did not press it, Samuel' D. Warriner, the operators' leader, proposed submitting "all mat ter: at issue to arbitration, work at the mines to continue pending the re - HON. MARY E. SMITH Farmer member of the government of British Columbia and at present member for Vancouver city, is en route to Britain on an immigration commis�ston, Mrs, Smith has the honor to be the first woman of the British Empire to be a member of a government. No. k2, 31c. Eggs—Extras in cartons, 36 to 37c; extras, 34 to 35c; firsts, 29 to 30c; seconds, 20 to 22c. Live poultry—Spring chickens, 40c; liens, over 6 lbs., 22c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 20c• do, 8 to 4 lbs., 17e; roosters, 15c; ducklings, over 6 lbs., 30c; do, 4. to 6 lbs., 28e; turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and up, 25c: Dressed poultry—Spring chickens, 45e; hens, over 5 lbs., 28c; do, 4 to 5 vesters' from Ontario. A despatch from Edmonton says About 13,000 men will be required to harvest Alberta's bumper grain crop. At least 3,000, it is anticipated, will sults of such arbitration." ' Ho also be available from Alberta itself, leav- offered to renew the present wage ing about 10,000.to be brought he from scale to April 1, 1925, and to write outerde points. A campaign to obtain) into to new contract abolition of the the harvesters le beginning locally, 12 -hour day where it was in effect, and will be prosecuted outside also; and speeding up of the Board 'of,Con- and, in fact, is already under way on ciliation, and to "endeavor to embody a fairly large scale, in the contract clauses covering those minor matters which we have express Fire I,058 at Wynyard ed a willingness to consider during the Estimated art 1'1.0 800 present negotiations." The offer to renew the present wage scale for 18' months was based by A despatch from Saskatoon says:- Warriner on belief that wages to -day Wynyard, on Thursday morning, f ol- "`are far above the, increaee in the lowing the disastrous fire which wiped cost of living as compared with the out the business section of the town pre-war period," and upon testimony Wednesday night, resembled a shell - of the U. 8. Coal Commission's recent wrecked town of the war areas in report that these' earnings were ade- France. The total loss has been esti quate to "permit the essentials' of a mated` at $110,800, covered by insur- reasonable ance to a little over 89,900, reasonable standard of living," $ HON. JOHN S. BELL The defeated Premier of Prince Edward. Island, He went down along with all his Cabinet Ministers: DEBATES QUESTION OF JOINING LEAGUE Ireland Declared "Free Coun- try Taking Its Place With . Other Nations of World. A despatch front -Dublin aays:— Ireland's now position in the world, created by the rebellion and the Ma le '-redacts—S ru per im , on the advisability or otherwise of mryahaslbde`en completed here for the Y gar., 52.50; per 5 -gal. tin, $2,40 per gal. Maple sugar, lb., 25c. Honey -60-1b. tins, 10% to 11c per lb.; 3 and 23%' Ib. tins, 11 to 12%..c pea. lb. • Ontario comb honey, per dor., No. 1, 54.50 to $5; No. 2, 53.75 to 54.25. Smoked meats -Hams, med., 27 to 29c; cooked hams, 43 to 45c; smoked rolls, 24 to: 26c; cottage rolls 25 to 28c; breakfast bacon, 30 to 34e; spe- cial brand breakfast bacon, 84 to 38c; backs, boneless, 32 to 38c, Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 50 to 70 lbs., $18; 70 to 90 lbs., 517.50; 90 lbs. and up, 516.50; lightweight rolls, in barrels, $36; heavyweight rolls, $33. Lard—Pure tierces,, 1534 to 15% e; tubs 18 to 163tc; pails, 16% to 17c; prints, 18c. Shortening, tierces, 14% to i5c; tubs, 15 to 15%c; pails, 15% to 16c; prints, 17 to 173¢c. Choice heavy steers, 57 to 57.50; butcher steers, choice, $7 to 57.50; do, good, 56:75 to $7; do, med., 56 to $6.50; do com.,; 55.50 be $6; butcher heifers choice, 56.75 to • 57.25; do, med,1 $5.75 to $6.60; do, com., $5 to $5.50; butcher cows choice, $5 to 55.50; do, reed., $3.50 to 54.50; can- ners and cutters, 51.50 to $2; feeding steers, • good, 55 to $6; do, fair, 54.50 to 55; stockers, good, $4.50 M 55.50; do, fair, 53.50 to 54.50; milkers, springers, each, $80 to .$80• calves, choice, $10 to $11; do, med„ i 8 to $9; do, com., 54 M 55; lambs, spring, 513 sheep, choice light, M 13 50 t 5 to , P, , $ $ g do,choice, heavy,, 4 $575,C ,$ to $456, do,culls and bucks,. "5 to 3 $ $ 5U; hogs,fed an.d watered 58.85; -do, f.o, b., $8.25; do. country; points, $8. 1.1 r MINERS AND OPERATORS • CONPCRL=Ntt ees vnts�^ �'ry "WHY WORRY; I'LL HAVE TO PAY FOR IT." -Da Mar, in the Philadelphia Record. joining. the League. If they joined It, he proceeded, it would be because they thought it beneficial to the coun- try and because they believed Ireland was a country of the world, not alone of Europe—a free country. taking its place with . world in considering the interests of all. They also believed association with other countries would establish Ireland as a beneficent power. Leave was granted to introduce the bill, and the. Senate, proceeded with the second stage of the land bill, which gave the Earl of Mayo an opportunity of calling up bygone times to' pay a tribute to the present. He congratu- lated ,Minister of Agriculture Bogan on the carriage of the intricate and difficult bill through the Dail, and hoped that •finally a settlement of the land question was.- approaching.., He, too, struck an international note, warning the Irish farmers that they would have to compete with farmers of other countries where farming was carried on on a large scale. the' other countries of the MONTREAL. Oats, No. 2 CW, 57c; No, 3 CW, 55c; extra No. 1 feed, 5334e; No. 2 local white, 52%c. Flour, Manitoba spring wheat pats., lets 56.90; do; 2nds, 56.40; do, strotlg bakers', $6.20;, do, winter pats,, choice, 55.75 to 55.85; Rolled oats, bag, 90 lbs., $3,05 to 53,15. Bran, 525 to 526. Shorts, 528 to 529.. Middlings, 533 to 534. •flay,No. 2, per ton, car lots, $15. Cheese, finest easterns, 17% to 18%c. Butter, choicest creamery,; seeec, Eggs, selected, 32e, Potatoes, per bag, car. lets, 51.20 to 51.25. Calves, .med. to good suckers; 56,50 to $'7; com. veale, -55.60 to 5'6 25: Good heavy milk -fed weals, 57.50; grass calves, $3 to $3.50; lambs, 58 to 511; hogs, thick smooths, 59.25; selects, 510.17; good quality light weight'se- lect and shop hogs mixed, 59.75. The lyre bird of Australia is a , mimic. In the early morning it is at its best, duplicating the whistle of a locomotive, the barking o£ a dog, the call of a magpie, and the buzz . of a circular saw' in varying- tones. --'--fir--- ac ons ire oo s Co,,Ltd: The will •bring out a number of new Brea of wire and stamped kitchenware thin fall and when in full operation expect to employ about forty persons. Last year they used about 260,000 lbs. of wire and proportionate amounts of other raw materials, and from their present rate of production it seams probable that they will double this consumption: Kincardine, N.B,-Tlte fiftieth an- niversary of the founding of the KCm•• eardineshire colony' in Victoria county was observed here by more than 1,000 persons, comprising such of the original colonists as could be present and their descendants. It is expected that the installation of. gas services in residences in Ed- monton will commence in the near fu- ture. The contract for the digging of the ditch and laying the pipe for the pipe -line for gas from Viking has been let, and preliminary work has already commenced. The value of salmon fisheries of British Columbia for 1922 was 513,- 106,816, representing 69 per cent. of the total fisheries production of the province. The increase over 1921 in the value of salmon fisheries was 54,- 528,718 or 52 per cent, " Th pack in- creased P creased from 602,657 cases in 1921 c 2. to 1,290 360 cases in 19...., The first official figures on the movement of Canadian cattle to Creat Britain under the new import regula- tions show that sines 'January .1. to June 30, shipments have increased 400. per cent. over those for the sante per-' iod last year. A. total of 19,908 head. of cattle have left for the United Kingdom from January to June 30, compared with 4,503' n the same pen- iod a year ago, --4 SIR RIDHARD SQUIRES Who bas resigned , the Premier- ship of Newfoundland following die- closiures aG •corruption' hi certain Munches, of lite a allurdnbebretion:. -Sir 'who Wait only 39 when Itichaad & y w &Ieete,cl Prenfibr was them the youngest Premisr • n, the British. Fmpiro. A. fast life soon means a• full stop -if you want to: keep cool,' don't urs hot words. The demand for lard in Ontario by bona -fide settlers shows a narked in- crease,•with the result that it has been necessary to open new areas, accord- ing to a report for the year 1022, is- sued by the Provincial Department of Lands. During the past year 894 per. sons purchased land, an increase of over 150, In addition, 219 locations of 160 acres each were granted to re- turned men, or a total of 35,040 acres. ra te 4311 Patents were g n d coveringg 9 acres to 808 settlers who hail met the requered building and clearing conic ditiona.