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RITAIN TO CANADA IN THIRTY HOURS;
`O INDIA IN ONE HUNDRED HOURS
A despatch fr.= London says;--
"Britain to Canada by airship in less
than 30 hours."
This idea was held out, although
somewhat nebulouslyporhaps, at Fri-
day afternoon's sitting of the Eco-
nomic Conference.
Sir Samuel Hoare, British Minister
of Air :Services, had been outlining to
the Conference the proposed Burney''
airship service between London and
Cairo and on to India.
Then Col. Amery, First Lord of
the Admiralty, drew a *Lure of the
giant airships of the future. Ile
thought the airship had reached the
stage wheu its success was assured.
By taking the extreme northern circle
track it could shorten the actual dis-
tance to Canada. Airships could be
turnedout almost with the rapidity
of automobiles. Germans, he observed,
had during the weir constructed Zep-
pelins in ten weeks.
Col. Amery's remarks were made
during a somewhat desultory discus-
sion, in which Hon. George P. Graham.
observed that Canada at present was
not much interested in the lighter -
than -air craft, especially as under the
proposed Cairo service Canada would
not be affected.
The South African delegates point-
ed out that they were more intrested
in aeroplane development, particular-
ly in view of the extent to which the
aeroplane is being used for patrol
work in their country. The discussion
had two developments: First, the ap-
pointment of a committee of the Con-
ference to coneider the details of the
Burney scheme, and, second, the gen-
eral agreement that it was desirable
to create some machinery whereby the
experience of Great Britain and the
Dominions in air transportation could
be pooled andmade available to all
parts of the Empire.
The steady progrees in air transit
was described by Sir Samuel Hoare,
Minister of the Air, to the Imperial
Economic Conference. He empha-
sized in particular the intention of
the British Government to conclude a
contract .for en airship service to
Egypt and India, under the scheme
drawn up by Conanander Burney, and
he informed the Dominion represents-
Lives that their co-operation would be
welcomed if they desired to offer it.
Airship development, Sir . Samuel
explained, had been suspended by the
British Government . since August,
1921, and it had now only a few mili-
tary airships
ili-tary.airships left over from the war,
stored in their, hangars. But it real-
ized that the time had come to take
up airship work on commercial lines.
Commander Burney, in his scheme,
will proceed by three stages. First,
he will produce an airship able to
reach India in 100 flying hours, and
will experiment with that between
England and Egypt, Secondly, he
will establish a weekly service to In-
dia, and, thirdly, he will make the ser-
vice bi-weekly, and keep six ships of
5,000,000 cubic feet actually in com-
mission. Even if a service is estab-
lished only as far as Egypt, it. will
mean a considerable saving in time in
the carriage of mails and passengers
between London and Australia. Lon-
don to Cairo would be negotiated, it
is reckoned, in two instead of from
three and a half to six days, and when
the service is extended to India the
present 14% days would be cut down
to five.
As for Australia, London to Perth
now takes 28 days, and by airship it
should need only 11 days.
BRITAIN TO RETAIN
ITS SOUND CURRENCY
Policy of Inflation as Remedy
for Unemployment is
Rejected.
A despatch from London says: -
Great interest has been aroused re-
cently by reports that the Government
was considering a policy of currency
inflation as a remedy for the present
serious unemployment which some
economists had attributed to too rapid
deflation, but if the Government ever
contemplated such a change of policy
it would seem that it has thought bet-
ter of the idea.
Sir Laming Worthington -Evans,
Postmaster -General, in a speech at
Colchester, emphasized the need of a
sound currency system, and said of
the rumors that the Government in-
tended to manufacture artificial money
that there was not the slightest ground
for such a fear; it had no such inten-
tion.
Frederick Goodenough, Chairman of
Barclay's Bank, in a speech at the
same meeting, made it clear that he is
opposed to any policy of inflation. He
pointed to Germany as an instance of
the danger of an unchecked inflation,
and declared his belief that a policy
of deliberate inflation would not cure
the evils of unemployment, nor secure
commercial prosperity for the Empire.
On the other hand, deflation was a
matter requiring handling with the
greatest care and with due regard to
the conditions existing elsewhere.
It was to Mr. Goodenough that Min-
ister of Labor Barlow in a speech last
week erroneously attributed the plan
for currency inflation.
Dole Ruining Youth
J. H. Thomas, the British Labor
leader, who has declared that the
young mea of Britain are being de-
moralized by the unemployment dole•
He says that 100,000 young workmen
who have completed their apprentice-
ship, have never hues a chance to work
at their trades.
CANADIAN DELEGATES TAKE LEADING
PART IN LAKES CONFENCE AT MILWAUKEE
A despatch from Milwaukee says:
Canadian delegates are taking a prom-
inent part in the work of the Great
Lakes Harbor Conference, which open-
ed here Thursday afternoon. Joseph
Gibbons and D. M. Goudy of Toronto,
and William, 11, Duncan of Midland,
Ont., were' appointed on the Nomina-
tions Committee, and Mayor Alfred
Maguire and Wm. A. Summerville of
Toronto on the Resolutions Committee.
Mayor Maguire addreseed the banquet
Thursday night, and J. H. Duthie of
Toronto, Secretary of the National
Waterways Association, spoke Friday
afternoon.
Other Canadian delegates present
are: Thomas McQueen, Controller W.
W. Hiitz, Toronto, and D. I. White,
Jr., Midland, Ont. Twenty- two Wis-
consin and Great Lakes cities are rep-
resented among the 100 delegates.
present.
The conference is called by'the
Great Lakes Harbor Association,
which was permanently organized at
the meeting.
The purposes of the conference are:
Preservation of lake levels and pro-
tection of harbors and channels; pro-
motion of harbor development and
port efficiency.
Co-operation between harbor cities
for the stimulation of Great Lakes
commerce to the highest stage of
service.
Co-ordination of water ' and rail
lines to effect quick and efficient trans-
port of freight to and from lake ports,
giving economic and efficient service
to the entire nation.
It is also proposed to unite Amer
icon and Canadian cities on the Great
Lakes 3n a movement to back the St
Lawrence River Deep Waterways pro-
ject, Resolutions endorsing this water-
way and condemning the diversion of
water from Lake Michigan through
the Chicago Drainage Canal will be
adopted. Canada's co-operation in the
encouragement of water transporta-
tion on the Great,Lakes was assured
by Mayor Maguire of Toronto in his
address on Thursday.
COMING •HOME
-From the Ne
c the World.
HOLDERS OF DOMINION
'23 BONDS TO BE PAID
Minister of Finance Arranges
for Immediate Conversion
Into Cash. .
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
Holders of 1923 bonds who have not
yet exercised their option .of conver-
sion into the 1928 or 1943 refunding
issue may have their bonds paid off
in cash through any branch of any
chartered bank in Canada, it was an-
nounced Hon.S.
on Friday by W.
Fielding, Minister of Finance.
IThe bonds call for payment of the
rincipal at the Department of Fin -
j pence, Ottawa, and at the offices of
,the Assistant Receivers -General at
Charlottetown, Halifax, St. John,
Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina,
Calgary and Victoria. In ad
dition, for the greater convenience of
the holders, the Minister has now
made special arrangements with the
chartered banks for the payment of
the bonds without charge.
It is urged by the Minister that it
will facilitate settlement prdmptly at
date of maturity if, when dealing
through a bank, the holders will de-,
liver their bonds for examination and
listing as early as possible before
November 1. Correspondingly, if
bonds are presented to a bank on or
after November 1, holders must lee
prepared to await payment for a few
days.
The banks have received instruc-
tions as to'the form of endorsement
required from holders of registered
bonds. In the case of these, as well
as bearer securities, payment is made.
only on the surrender of the bonds
themselves. Interest ceases at ma-
turity date, and if the bonds are re-
tained thereafter claims for further
interest cannot be entertained.
ti
OFFERS WELCOME TO
SURPLUS IMMIGRANTS
Canada Invites the Britishers.
Turned Back by U.S. Rule
to Remain Here.
A despatch from Ottawa says: -An
interesting situation has been created
for the Department of Immigration
and Colonization here by a provision
just made effective by the correspond-
ing department in Washington. By
this provision any immigrant who
lands in Canada, whose destination is
the United States, and who is outside
the quota allowed by the United States
from the immigrant's country, cannot
enter the United States, and cannot,
if he remains in Canada, make appli-
cation for entry into the United States
for one year. If, however, he returns
to his native country he may then
make a new application within a
month.
The Canadian authorities, however,
have made it known that if these im-
migrants, who were destined for the
United States, and who cannot enter
there because they landed in Canada,
and because they exceed the quota, are
of British origin, they will be allowed
to remain in this country,
Nine -Storey Building
is Skyscraper in Paris.
A despatch from Paris says: -Con-
struction of
ays:-Con-structionof one of France's tallest
skyscrapers -nine stories' high -has
started in the Rue Marrcnniors.
Hitherto the highest buildings were
eight stories and a special permit was
needed to construct +•Ire additional
storey, for fear of making a jagged
and ugly skyline, and cutting off the
sight and air of the adjacent bmldicgs.
Dominion News n 'Brief
New Westminster, B,C.-Fir cones was a large deficit, the improvement
are now being gathered in the Fraser •amounting to $578,000.
Valley, from New Weettninster to North Bay, Ont, -The Spanish
North Bend, under the direction of River Pulp and Paper Mille have an -
the Dominion Forest. Service. Throe trounced that theywill build a new
thousand sacks are to be secured and slip and wharves on the river front Canada uses about $102,000,000 worth
the: seed from these cones will be re- just below their General Offices at of manufactured cotton textiles during
covered at the seed extraction plant Sault Ste, Mario. The slip will be, a year, and of this nearly $54,000,000
here; This year is the first time that 800 feet long and 200 feet wide, and are manufactured within the Province:
the British ,Forestry Commission has will cost approximately $400,000. of Quebec, which is, credited with 80.
asked for any red cedar seed. "Red' Bryson, sue. --It is understood that per cent, of the entire Canadian pro -
1 ,.a._..�..,
CANADA'S OUTPUT
IN COTTON TEXTILES
Total of $71,200,000 Last
Year, 80 Per Cent. Being
Produced in Quebec.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
Cedar, as a rule, is scarce and difficult plans are completed to go ahead im-
ful. h Ottawa River Power Company's de -
Calgary, Alta, -Alberta .reached a velopment. This company is a subsi-
world's record for wheat production diary of the Ottawa and Hull Co„ and
in 1915 when the average yield was owns a development here on tba Ot-
31.30bushels to the acre and, judging tawa River capable of 60,000 h.p. The
from threshing returns now being re-
31.30
e- first installation is to be one. unit of
ceived, 1923 promises to be another 25,000 h.p._
Woodstock, N.B.-As the result of
prospects offered by unlimited elec-
tric power from Aroostook Falls it is
to obtain. Tis year it is very plenti- mediately with the construction of the
record season. Yields ranging from
27 to 60 bushels to the acre have been
duction in 1921. This is one of the
outstanding facts in a bulletin ;just
issued by the Dominion Bureau of Sta-.
stistics on the manufacture of cotton
textiles in 1921.
The' total Canadian production of,
these industries in that year was $71,-
200,000 while the value of these manu-
factured and partly manufactured
products brought in from other coun-
tries was $32,288,000. In addition
recorded and many reports of 60- ' thete was also imported $18,953,000 of
ROMANTIC COLOR TO
are. casting their eyes upon this city came from the United States,
bushel yields have been:receivcd here. rumored that many manufacturers raw, cotton, all but $103,275 of which
IMPERIAL SESSION
Regina, Sesk,-Local dealers , esti- as a manufacturing centre. The first In the industry there are, 46 plants
mate that half a million turkeys will t b established will be the Canadian in all Canada of which 21 are in
Maharaja • of Alwar Brings o e ea is
Branch of
be available from Saskatchewan forv
Thanksgiving Day. Theystate that the John Watson Co., Inc. Quebec, 20 in Ontario and the other
Greetings t0 the Assembled ll ay Mr, Hassel, present owner of the corn- five in the Maritime Provinces, four
Premiers of the Empire. the price will certainly not be higher pany, was at Woodstock this week and of them being credited to New Bruns -
than last year, when the best birds purchased from the Woodstock roan- 'wick. .In 1921 they employed 1.5,823
sold for 80c a pound. dry Co. the large sheds in connection persons, paid $12,142,000in wages,
Winnipeg, Man.-Weith a net sur- with the foundry, and will, go into the used $38,454,816inmaterials and
plus for the first nine months' opera- ; business 'ofassembling and manufac- turned out $71,200,176 of products.
tion of the current fiscal year of more turing all `kinds of farming machin- The ascendancy of Quebec in this
t industry is found not in the eumbe,
A despatch from London says: -
The extraordinary diversity of the
British Entpdre was illustrated on
Friday by a picturesque incident at
the Imperial Conference. As it set-
tled down to a continued discussion of
defence, the Maharaja of Alwar, one
of the independent Princes .of India,
rose and called the attention of that
body to the fact that the day was the
Dusseshra festival, the greatest feast
in the Indian calendar. Then, as the
representativesof the Dominions
looked in astonishment, he went on:
"It is a festival to conunemorate
the march of Shri, one of our greatest
incarnations, to Ceylon, where he
achieved a victory, The anniversary
is celebrated in India nowadays in in-
specting our military troops and units
-in other words, examining our
means of war; or, more correctly
speaking, our means of peace.
"It is a curious -I hope a happy -
coincidence that we should to -day in
, this room be celebrating the. Due -
1 seshra festival by examining the
means of defence of our Empire."
Then, with a courtly bow, he added:
"Friends, I wish you all, in the name
of my country, as an Iridian, in the
name of the Princes, as one of their
order, our cordial and sincere greet-
ings
ree
ings to each and all of you."
A
World's Total Wheat Yield
219,000,000 Bus. Over 1922
A despatch from Ottawa says;--
According
ays:-
According to a cablegram received
from the International Institute of
Agriculture, Rome, the first offiei
estimate of the productiin of wheat in
Argentina is 248,755,000 bushels
against 189,047,000 last year and 130,-
642,000 in 1921. The production of
flax -seed in Argentina is 75,981,000
bushels, against 44,280,000 last year
and 32,272,000 in 1921.
"These figures for wheat," ;antes
T. K. Doherty, Canadian Institute
Commissioner, "coupled with she re-
cent Canadian report and the latest
revisions of the European crop raise
the world's total production to ;1,422,
072,000 bushels, compared with 3,108,-
000,000
last year and 3,087,000,000 in
1921. Excepting for a few unimport-
ant countries, the official total produc-
tion of Europe is now known and in-
dicates an increase. of 219,,'1,0,000
bushels over last year's crop and 33,-
000,000 over that of 1921."
than $22,000, a total. profit for the ery, cultivators, potato diggers, etc.
year of not less than $35,000 is fore -1 Sydney, N.S.-A contract has been but in the size of its mills. For
casted by the Manitoba Government signed by the Imperial Oil Co. and the ample, those producing cotton
i inos
and cloth are byfar the i
Telephones. This will be an increasep British Empire Steel Corp.Cor . to take the
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antin the industry,their
0 3 00 over-pasth
f 0 theyear and aP'
whale :benzol output of the by-product
roduct
tP y P
.far all beingvalued .
marked change in theconditionof the plant at Sydney. Benzol is an excel- Canada ti
system as it was in 1921 when there lent motor fuel. 978,596 in 1921, of which -$50,0 q,
is credited to Quebec and only $10;
$4.50 to $5.25 • d:, com. 3 to 4 • but- 010,662 to Ontario, although that
$ $ Province has as many mills as has
The Week's k7
TORONTO.
Man. wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1.07.
Man. oats -No. 2 CW, 51eisc; No.
3 CW, 473tc; No. 1 feed, 453ic.
Manitoba barley -Nominal.
All the above, track, bay ports.
Am. corn -Track,: Toronto, No. 2
yellow, $1.26.
Ontario barley -60 to 62c.
Buckwheat -No. 2, nominal.
Ont. rye -No. 2, 70 to 72c.
Peas -No. 2, nominal.
Millfeed-Del Montreal freights,
bags included: ran,Bper ton, $28.25;
shorts, per ton, $31.25; middlings,
$38.25; good feed flour, $2.10.
Ontario ;wheat -No. 2 white, 95c to
t $1, outside.
Ontario No. 2 white oats -40 to 44c.
Ontario corn -Nominal.
Ontario flour -Ninety per cent. pat.,
in jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship-
ment, $4.70; Toronto basis, 84.60;
bulk, seaboard, $4.50. i
Manitoba flour -tat pats., in jute
sacks, $6.50 per bbl. ;' 2nd pats., $6. I
Hay -Extra No. 2 timothy, per tdn,
track, Toronto, $15; No, 2, $14.50; No.
3, $13.50; mixed, $12.
al Straw -Car lots, per ton, $9.
Cheese -New, large, 25 to '26c;
twins, 26 to 26%,e; triplets, 27 to.
27%c; Stiltons, 27 to 28c. Old, large,
32c; twins, 33 to 383cic.
Butter -Finest creamery prints, 40
to 42c; ordinary creamery, 37 to 38c;
No. 2, 36 to 3'7c.
Eggs -Extras in cartons, 44 to 45c;
extras, 42 to 43c; firsts, 38 to 39c;
seconds, 31 to 32c.
Live poultry -Spring chickens, 4
Ibs. and over, 25c; chickens, 3 to 4
Ibs., 22c; hens, over 5 lbs.; 24c; do, 4
to 5 'lbs., 22c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 17c;
roosters, 15c; ducklings, .over 5 lbs.,
22c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 20c; turkeys,
young, 10 lbs., and up, 25c.
Dressed poultry -Spring chickens,
4 lbs. and over, 83c; chickens, 3 to 4
lbe., 30e; hens, over, 5 lbs., 30c; do, 4
to 5 lbs., 28c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 20c;
roosters, 18c; ducklings, over 5 lbs.,
28e; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 25c; turkeys,
young, 10 lbs, and up, 30c.
Beans -Canadian, hand-picked, lb.,
7c' primes 63 c
Admiral 3Ir Osmond' Brock
In .command of the British fourth
squadron in the: Mediterranean. Bil-
1 Vali naval power in the Mediterranean
lis higher .now than' for twenty years
nasi.'
WELL, 1 MUST SAY,.
MISS 'FLOPPY YODUVV0
le PT AWAY FROM PIE
PRETTY WELL SINCE
1 CAME To THE SHORE!
WiIRTCet5' you
EXPECT" AFTER
THE WAY j'OO
BRWKE OUR
ENGAGEMEi'lT?
f1V RABBU BORA
BROt<E IT? .SAY ,I LIKE Ti4Pr! DID It
ET A CHANCE To SLiDE A WORD IN ? I
HOULD SM NOT t yak) STARTED ON A'
NON-STOP TALK IN G MARATHON, AND /
YOU'D BE TALKBEAT rr 11.
ING YEr IF I HPiDN'T f
Maple products -Syrup, per Hap.
gal., $2.50; per 5 -gal. tin, $2.40 per
gal.; maple sugar, lb., 25c.
Honey -60 -lb. tine, 11 to 12c per lb,;
10-1b. tins, 11 to 12c; 5-1b. tins, 12 to
13c; 2%; -lb. tins, 13 to 14c; comb
honey, per doz., $3.75 to $4; No. 2,
$3.25 to $3.50.
Smoked meats -Hams, med,, 27 to
29c; cooked hams, 40 to'42c; smoked
rolls, 22 to 24c; cottage rolls, 23 to
27c; breakfast bacon, 80 to 34c;:spe-
c'-al brand breakfast baton, 34 to 38c;
backs, boneless, 31 to 38c.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 50
to 70 lbs., $18; 70 to 90 Ibs., $17.50;
90. lbs. and up, $16.50; lightweight
rolls,' in bbls:, $36; heavyweight rolls,
$83.
Lard -Pure. tierces, 1735 to' 18c;
tubs, 18 to 1835c; pails,'1835 to 19c;
prints, 20 to 21c; rho. tenir.g tierces,
15i% -to 15efic; tubs, 153((2 to 16c; pails,
16 to 1635c; prints, 1.814 to 18%e.
Heavy steers, choice, $7.26 to $7.50;1
butcher steers, choice, $G.25 to $6.75;
do, good, $5.50 to $6.25; clo, med., $4,50,
to $5.50; do, coni., $3 to $4t butcher.
heifers, choice, $6.25 to $6.75;• do, med.,'
•Bran • . 5. Shorts,
$31.25. Midlings, $38.25. Hay, No. 709 to other countries.
2, per ton, car lots, $15 to $16.
Cheese -Finest easterns, 21 to HARVESTERS FIND WIN -
21%c Butter Choicest creaner
85
tatoes-Per bag, car lots, 95c to $1.'
Cows, $1.50 to $2.26i bulls, $2.25 to
$2.50; canners, $1; fairly good veals,
$9 to $10; grassers, $2.50 up; hogs,
thick smooths and straight lots of un-
graded, $9; sows, $00.75.
cher cows, choice, $4.25 to $a;. do, mel., Quebec. The capital invested in' these
$5; do, come $3 to $_canners and cutters, $1.50 Quebec cotton yarns and cloth mills is
to $2.50; butcher' bulls, good, $4 to
$,2.50 to $8.50; feeding put at $43,827,000 out of a total of a
steers, good, $5 to $6; do, fair, $4.50 little less than $66,000,000 for all the
to $5; stockers, good, $4.5to $5; do, provinces.
fair, $3.50 to $4; milkers and spring- That the cotton textiles industry has
ers, $80. to $120; calves, choice, $10 to to meet keen competition is evident
$11; do, med., $8 to $9; do, common, from the fact that over $28,000,000 of
$4 to $5; do, grassers, $3:50 to $4.50; manufactured. goods were imported in
lambs, ch'c, $11.25 to $11.,50; do,bucks, 1921, the partly manufactured am-
ounting to $Ie do, come to 87.25; to nearly $4,000,000. It is
sheep, light ewes, good, do, c ll 87.25; interestingto note that of these two
$b, fat, heavy, $4 to' $5; do, culls, $2 to
$2.50; hogs, thick, smooth, F.W., classes of goods $16.890,359 came from
$8.35; do, f.o.b., $7.75; do, country the United States, $12,560,000 from
points, $7.50; do, selects, $9.25.
MONTREAL.
Oats -Can. West. No. 2, 583¢c to
c; CW No. 3, 57 to 57%e; extra; No.
Britain and $2,837,567 from other
countries. Add to this the nearly $13,-
500,000 'of raw cotton imported from
the United States and the importance
1 feed, 56 to OCih,,; No 2 local white of that country in this industry is real -
Exports of cotton textile pro -
pats., lsts, $6.50; 2nds, $6; 'strong ducts in 1921 totalled 81,0551,905, of
bakers, $5.80; winter pats., choice, i which $389,851 went to the United
$5.75$to0$b.85B Rolled oats, bag 90 States, $154,344 to Britain and $507,
55 to-55eec Flour -Man spring wheat ized.
t,,
�ifi'to 86c. .Eggs -Selected 42, -po- TER JOBS IN CANADA
Vincent Massey
Who addressed the Canadian Club
in Winnipeg. Ho urged Canadians to
regard Dominion Day as the proudest
day in the year, and tocelebrate ac-
cordingly. There . is no bloodshed to.
corumemorate, he said, but plenty of
romance.
3,500,000 Marks to
Send One Post Card
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
Nearly three and a half million narks
in postage were necessary in sending
a plain postcard received by the De-
partment of. !rade . and Commerce
from Germkby. 'Seventeen stamps
were used, almost obliterating the ad-
dress and the message.
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FORA (poopFIGHT II
Farmers Treated Help Well,
Says Writer Who Shared
in Field Work.
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
The announcement by Hon. J. A. Robb
that about 8,000 openings for winter
employment have already been found
for British harvesters, is evidence that
the great majority of these men can
get work in Canada throughoue the
winter, if they are prepared to take
ordinary chances. As it is believed
that 12,000 harvesters came from the
British 'Isles, it will thus be sects that
jobs have been sectored for two-thirds
of them, to say nothing of others who
have secured employment through
their own efforts.
"All the men I brought out have got
jobs and will stay in Canada," said
Captain Northcotte-North, of Birm-
Ingham, a writer and lecturer, who
brought out 36 harvesters, men of his
old company, and who passed through
the city on his way home to England.
This party got work near Carroll,
Manitoba. Speaking of their exper-
iences there, he said:
"I do not think that any man of
ordinary physical stamina has any
complaint to make. I shocked .12
acres of grain a day, and some of my
men did as much as 16 and are none
the worse for it. The treatment, on
the whole, was fine.Of course, we
had to look after our own interests,
but that was to he expected."
Speaking about reports to the effect
that several men sontetirnes hpve had
to eat off one plate, the captain said:
"Such things are greatly exagger-
ated, Of course, men in a threshing
gang can't expect to find things quite
as nice as they would in their own
hones; but when conditions out thele
are compared with what men had to
endure in the trenches there is little
to kick about."
i The captain added that coming
down on the train there were 12 bard
vestets, each with $100 in his porket.,
who had complained about the diffi-
culty of securing work, Bind had ,got
their pessige home. Moreover they
were boasting about it.
Chippawa s sixth power unit will be
opened a month ahead of schedule, in
December, according to an announce-
ment made by the Hydro' Power. Com-
mission, With the sixth unit the
Chippewa will be equipped to turn out
continuously a maximum of about
300,000 horse -power, as compared with
the present maximum of :from 250,000
to 300.,000. The additional power will
be needed for Ontario's industries and
homes.
A Long Route,
"Ana you give the giraffe only one
lump of sugar?" asked the little boy at
the Zoological Gardens.
"Oh, yes," replied' the keeper. "one
lump goes a long way with him,