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The Huron Expositor, 1931-05-08, Page 1�y of' e • tF a• 41 Seventy-zecond Year ... Whole Number 38.08 • THOS. McMILLAN, M P,' . SPEAKS ON FARM POLICY. Proposed Amendment on Going Into Supply. That all the words after the word "That" to the end of the question be left out and the following words be inserted therefor: 1. The House regrets that the ad- ministration has failed to implement its definite promises with respect to agriculture, and that to this moment it has failed to announce any agri- cultural policy to •this House. 2. That the policies of the present administration •operate to restrict rather than to expand Canadian trade. 3. That without the development of international trade, Canadian agricul- ture will become increasingly par- alysed 4. That in the opinion of the House any policy with respect to agricul- tureshouldinclude emergency meas- ures to meet the present agricultural crisis and adequate provision for the processing of meats and the market- ing of live stock, wheat, dairy and all other agricultural products. What were the Government's defin- ite promises to Canadian agriculture? In Mr. Bennett's own words; "I shall regard it as my great responsibility if elected on July 28, 1930, to see that the collective weight and power of the Dominion of Canada is placed behind agriculture. I would be lack- ing in qualifieations entitling me to head a Canadian government if I fail- ed to do so." There is his solemn pledge, to Can- adian •agriculture. What has the Prime Minister and his government done to implement that pledge? Mr. 'Speaker, I am not going to retrace niy words to this House on March 17, 1931, but I would like this House and the country to read those remarks in unison with what I am about to say. 3 then showed how, after the close of the Imperial Economic Con- ference, the Prime Miinister became wildly uproarious and left Britain with a veiled threat of economic sep- aratism because a British minister, Mr. Thomas, mildly designated his whole proceeding as "humbug." In that respect I would like to place on iHlansard an extract from the Brit- ish Morning Express: "Very Simply Constitued." Mr. Bennett must be very simply constituted (I do not think it means, however, that the Right Hon. Gentle- man is simple minded). Mr. Bennett must be very simply constitued, says the New -Chronicle, if he imagines that any intelligent Eng1ishmap would be deluded by the proposal that we should tax our food in return for Can- ada's generosity in putting another brick on her tariff wall against for- eign imports and keeping the wall at the same effective height against Brit- ish goods. If that proposal is not humbug what is it? The Dominion premiers like to claim the right to "speak plainly" and like to exercise it. They should be able to keep a stiff upper lip when an English states- man for once in a way speaks plainly too. What kind of a stiff upper lip did my Right Hon. Friend keep? I am sorry that he has become so touchy that his hearing the simplei truth should cause him to make such an ex- hibition of himself as has resounded throughout the world. And after receiving a degree from a great university, to think that he would hupiiliate Canada by asserting that the old ties of blood and kinship between Motherland and the Domin- ions were gone, and that if not re- placed by commercial ties (the mer- cenary and monetary spirit) which caused Great Britain to lose the great- est possession she ever lost, our far flung Empire would share the fate of other great empires of the past. Was it not time he was leaving the heart of our great empire? Is it any won- der he was received with no spirit of acclaim when he landed back on the shores of Canada? But he hastened at once to Regina, either to prolong the hopes or dispel, the fears •of the farmers of Western Canada, I don't know which. What is worse, Mr. Speaker, after declaring that there was no evidence of acute distress among farmers at the moment, came absolutely to the relief of the banks, secured the banks against the loss of a single dollar, and he did that while his Minister of Ag- riculture reported and protested a- gainst the action of the banks. Does the Prime Minister deny the fact? I invite him to 'deny that fact! The words of his own Minister are re- ported as follows: "Credit is the desperate need of the Canadian farmer at the present time, declared Hon. Robert Weir, Minister of Agriculture, who returned from a two weeks' trip to the prairies. The necessity of providing some means by which loans could be given to farmers was continuously brought to his at- tention. As an illustration ofi the re- • luctance of financial houses to advance money on farm property he told of one elan who was unable to borrow any money at all on a large and well kept farm, but had little difficulty in borrowing several thousand dollars on his race horses." "Again he said the attitude of the banks was providing the opportunity for the radical to argue that when- ever capital had the chance it "rears its head to secure its toll," He said that one farmer who gave his bank a statement of 'barley at 8 cents a bushel, oats at, 10 cents a bushel, and wheat at 33 cents a bushel, and was worth $37,000, was refused a bank loan of $1,000 to tide him over until spring. He continued: "1 blow of a rancher worth $100,000 with a $2,000 mortgage against his place 'who can- not' get $500 to help hies over the winter. It seems strange that when you enter the bank you find the motto over the door, "When in diiflculty con- sult your haulier." I feel sort agree that What those people must hav'e is credit. They have the equity and the ready seettrit r." iProm the Prime 'Minister's awn lips he is connoted of showing favoritism to hie big interest friends --the banks, and false to the basic industry of Canada, and he thinks he can get a- way with it by saying that in this way, he has put the collective weight and power of the country behind ag- riculture. He lost the opportunity of his in protecting the banks. Why did he not compel the banks to reduce the farmer's interest, to 6 per cent. at least. We see now why he will not allow his Minister of Agriculture to open his mouth on the floor of this House He is afraid' to allow his own Minis- ter to stands up on the floor of this House and tell the truth to the coun- try. And I must accuse his Minister of lying down under the lash of his leader, and not asserting his birth- right, regardless of the loss of his position. 4. Moreover, Mr. Speaker, after safeguarding the banks as he has done, he sent his Minister of Agricul- ture to Winnipeg, where he arranged for more relief in the way of farmers' seed grain than had ever been known since Confederation. Does that act show no immediate sign of distress among farmers? And how dd he provide the security for this farmer's relief? By saddling the burden upon the municipalities and the provinces. Wihat is a rural municipality but a corporate body composed of the farm- ers of a certain area or district? In other words, through the medium of his minister of agriculture, after freeing the banks, he has afforded the relief bysaddling upon them a fin- ancial burden from which they will never recover, a burden which will hang like a load stone, on the mind of every clear -visioned farmer. And the irony of the whole, situa- tion is that after saving the farmers in this most harrassing way, and calling the appeal for the relief of agriculture nothing better than a cry of "stinking fish" he sallies forth in this house and tries to proclaim him- self the saviour of his country. To my mind it is most amusing to study the peculiarity of the Prime Minister. At Regina after talking a lot of more trash, he said: "Attempts are being made and would be made to fasten upon the present (',overn- ment responsibility for present day conditions. But no one can- deny that the present depression was only the culmination of nine years of total dis- regard of the fundamental principles of constitutionaI government and dis- regard for the elementary laws of economics. I deny that statement in tote! It is absolute contrary to the fact. If he knows anything he ought to know that that expression is some of the most arrant piffle ever uttered by the tongue of man. But when he went to Calgary he had rather @hanged his mind and be- come more hesitant, and said he was going to find out "why people who had lived here for years now find themselves without even the bare ne- cessities of life." Again he said: "I cannot make up my mind why this country between the lakes and the mountains should experience such depression." Why, the Prime 'Minister seems to regard the present situation in the West as a mere matter of psychology. "Our closeness to other peoples," he says, "has much to do with our ideas of de- pression. We get the idea that the whole world is out of joint, and the psychology of it is reflected in the morose and solemn way in which some men walk down the streets of Cal- gary." I tell the right hon. gentleman there is no other part of the world where people can exhibit a finer spirit in the face of ,adversity than in Western Canada, but when men cannot sell their labor, or the product, of their la- bor, the cause and remedy must be sought in stern realities, and it is stern reality that this government, by its villainous legislation already pass- ed, is crushing the life -blood out of the agriculturists of Canada, and to- day, all over this country the farm- ers are pleading and praying for a government which will relieve them of their serious fiscal burdens, in- crease their purohasing power by al- lowing them to secure wider and bet- ter markets in which to both buy and sell, and a government which will legislate for the general good of Can- ada. ,But let us go further. After lis- tening to an outline of the present distressing conditions existent in many sections of Western Canada, on two occasions, April 21st and April 28th, we have witnessed the most surpris- ing exhibitions of incompetence on the part of the Prime Minister. Time and again while in opposition he declare•,1 he would prescribe his remedy for the ills of this country when he was call- ed in. After listening to those ap- peals, what is his remedy? It is the most humiliating spectacle I have ev- er witnessed in thisHouse. He char- acterizes the whole appeal on behalf of western agriculture as nothing more than a cry of "stinking fish." Mark you, Mr. Speaker, those are his words. He declares there is no evi- dence of acute distress at the mom- ent, and he has thrown the farmers' appeal into the waste basket. 2. He went to England, took John MacFarlane with him, has had him appointed sales manager of the pools, has broken down the whole line of sales comniunicatibn which the wheat pool had taken years to establish had their sales force in Britain and the continent withdrawn, threw their whole business of wheat selling bask into the old channels of the grain trade, the life-long trade enemies and determined competitors of the pool, and then after destroying all the farmers sales line of communication in that way, has the audacity to try to earsvince this House that he is a friend of the pool and takes credit for getting rid of some more wheat at rubio tsl unprofitable prices. Sir, I call upon my young friend, ithe Minister of Agriculture, after his SEAFORTH, FRIDAY MAY 8, 1931. 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Mark you, Mr. Speaker, I don't blame the Minister of Agriculture for the debacle, because, Sir, according to press reports, he marshalled all the superhuman qualities of which the Prime Minister thinks• he is possessed went down to Montreal and suggest- ed to the butter dealers to put their butter in cold storage. But of course the butter experts could not View the situation that way. I pause to place on Hansard the situation as to butter prices ever since the Australian came in force. I will not worry the (House with the de- tails, which may be found in two the obloquy of such a humiliating sit- uation. I call upon him, and I say unto him, "Come yet out from among -that coterie of millionaire manipulat- ors, for they are as dead men's bones from which ye can receive nothing but contamination. You cannot con- tinue to sit where you now are and support the policies of this gcvern- ment, and at the same time imple- ment your solemn pledge to Canadian agriculture." Judging from discussions in this House, one would almost think that agriculturally, Ontario and Quebec were scarcely factors in our national economic fabric. How often have we noticed the endeavor made to pit the agricultural west of this country a- gainst the industrial east, as if On- tario and Quebec represented nothing in the agriculture of Canada. Every citizen of this country ought to know that Ontario is still the lead- ing agricultural province of Canada. Ontario still produces almost one- third the agricultural wealth of the whole Dominion, and is climatically, our most dependable province. In 1929 Ontario's agriculture pro- duction was $509;208,000 out of a to- tal of $1,630,124,000 for the whole Dominion, or 31 per cent. of the whole. In 1930 it was $421,242,000, out of the total of $1,240,470,000, or 33.95 per cent. of the whole. Quebec also in tlas field of agricul- tural production, has been making a wonderful stride. • Ontario and Quebec together in 1929 produced 62.71 per cent. of the agricurtural revenue of the whole Do- minion. In 1930, 55 per cent. of the total. Therefore, for the welfare of these two provinces, as well as the whole Dominion, everything' possible should be done to secure access to the world's best markets, in which to both buy and sell, knowing that if we can main- tain agriculture and those whose en- ergies it engages in a buoyant and prosperous condition, the other econ- omic problems of Canada will very largely solve themselves. Take the dairy industry. the great- est and most profitable branch of Canadian agriculture, which about two and one-half years ago was in a buoyant and prosperous condition., About that time the present Prime Minister and a board of lieutenants began howling back and forth all over this country, telling the people every- where that the Mackenzie King Gov- ernment wase destroying the dairy in- dustry through the medium of the Australian treaty and by allowing the importation of New Zealand butter. The present Prime Minister and his followers kept up that howl right up to election day last summer. They went into almost every riding in Can- ada and kept howling day and night. In my own riding of South Huron, we had two men, day after day, and week after week, went all over my constituency trying to poison the minds of the farmers and their wives with that kind of thing and telling them. that their only salvation was to elect Mr. R. B. Bennett, that lie was such a wizard in agricultural knowledge, that he could remedy things in short order. So the electorate of Canada took them at their word. But where are those who were his leading lieuten- ants now? Where for instance, is the hon. member for Dufferin, Sj coe, Mr, Rowe, and the honorable member for Haldimand, Mr. Senn, the two honor- able members who bore the brunt of the work? Where are they? Rele- gated to the cold shades of the Gov- ernment benches in this House. They were all right to howl, but no use whatever for the Prime Minister's present service. He wanted to se- cure a real expert in agricultural sci- ence, so he journeyed out to the con- stituency of Melfort and brought forth the 1VIodern Moses, who was to show the Canadian dairymen th y to the promised land. use, Mr. Speaker, to say I ha a warm per- sonaI regard for th mister of Agri- culture. When I mat him during the recent session he intimated his wish to have a talk. I replied at once that I would gladly aid him in any way. However, since then I have heard nothing more, so I am clear. But what is the result of the Prime Minister's wonderful prescience thus far in the dairy business? The result is the debacle in the Montreal butter market where after a gradual decline in price almost '- what is purported to be Canada's new agricultural policy. In this there is nothing new. If we can only show to the live stock ;neat producers of Canada a clear outlet, by which they are able to place the product of their animals in the hands of the ultimate consumer free from. present serious obstructions and at some slight margin of profit to the producer, the problem would be solv- ed. That fact is shown conclusively in the present and prospective supply of dairy products. Notwithstanding the howl that went abroad that there was a shortage in the supply of Canadian made butter, which would take years to satisfy, that shortage has disappeared inside of seven months. In the Ontario section of the Can- adian fat cattle trade, from the point where our animals are dumped into Special Low Pricey on. Brantford Asphalt Shingles and Siding. Until further notice we offer BrantIlmf - ford Asphalt Shingles and Sidingat Price, $60/ a Cash I ce, per square, of Beautiful Range of Colors. N. CLUFF & SONS speeches which I placed on Hansard' on June 7, 1928, and March 18, 1920, which up to this moment no member of this House, net even the Prime Minister himself, has ever ventured to dispute on the floor of parliament, or call in question the facts con- tained therein. As every student of these matters knows, up to October 1, 1925, when the Australian treaty came in force, the London market had always been the world's best butter market, and consequently the greatest distributing and price regulating market of the world. When the treaty came in force, the price of New Zealand butter in Lon- don, England, was 50.78 cents per pound; Australian butter in London, was 47.74 cents per pound; Canadian butter in London, was 46.87 cents per pound. You will notice that the price of th" Canadian article was lower than that of either New Zealand or Aus- tralia in the British market. From that date there was a gradual readjustment of prices until in March, 1926, when No. 1 pasteurized butter in Montreal stood 10 cents per pound higher than the prices of either New Zealand er Australian butter in Lon- don, England. If you search the pries recorded, you will find that No, 1. pasturized was 2.46c per lb, higher in Montreal than its value in London for 1926; 4.721/Sc per lb. higher in Montreal than its value was in London for 1927; 4.17c per ]b. higher in Montreal than its value was in 1928; 4.79c lb. higher in Montreal than its value was in London for 1929; 6 to 6%c per Ib. higher in Montreal than its value was in London on March 1, 1930; 7.18 to 7.61e per lb. higher -in Montreal than its value was in London on March 14, 1930. And so we follow along until on April 21st of this yea- , No. 1 pas- teurized in Montreal was 22 cents per pound, while Australian butter in Lon- don was 23 to 23.43 cents. So Much for the dairy business. From this time henceforth the London market will regulate in a general way, the price '° Canadian butter, and as we have always informed the dairy- men of Canada, the 8 cent tariff im- posed on New Zealand butter is of no use to hint. This is another instance of the shain remedy of high tariff. It vindicates every word we have said as to the folly and hypocrisy df high protection. Live Stock Keeping. I hold in my hand an outline of the Toronto Union Stock Yards mar- ket, to where the finished pr sduct reaches the ultimate consumer, the funnel is blocked so effectively, that the feeder is at the mercy of the pro- cessing and distributing interests. So completely is'this the case, that the production of beef cattle is paralyzed to such a degree, that the cattle feed- er is so disheartened he does not know which way to turn, with the resu't that our successful feeders of the past are almost entirely out of the game. No one knows what kind of a•stone wall the producers are up against but those who have been actively engag- ed in the trade. There are no secrets in the business of meat production. There should be none in its processing and distribution. The whole business should be an op- en book with no hold up which will deprive the hard -worn producer of the fruits of continuous careful exertion. The same is true of the business of hog production with this redeeming i feature thus far, that the packing combine does not seem to have all 'the abattoirs so effectively coralled. However, the unreasonable fluctuation in price is most exasperating to the producing partner in the game. This is a business which demands immedi- kt.e searching investigation and con- tinuous control. It may happen, and not infrequent- ly does happen that after all the wheat is garnered, transported, grad- ed, milled or exported, it leaves no margin of profit to the grower. When this occurs the consequences are at once reflected in depressed business conditions. The partnership between agricul- tural prosperity and business pros- perity has now been clearly establish- ed; and the safeguarding in every pos- sible way of the interests of the pro- ducing partner ought to be the prime consideration of national policy. Apart from general world eondi- t.ions since the war, in which nearly all nations (with the exception of Great Britain and Canada) had be- come "high tariff crazy" and the fact that international war debts should have been cancelled, I say apart from these world conditions, the present agricultural. depression in Canada is largely the result of inequality in the returns from urban and rural labor. Higher wages in urban industry and in transportation servifee has drawn labor from the farms to such a de- gree that the farm population of On- tario is incapable of properly culti- vating the land. ./Ea well known.•eve, re , dent f agrieuu1tural conditk nss, the, farmer receives less returzk f , investment, energy and labor ttalltgat ether- departmentof our wheole oar tioxsal economic life, and y`et, Sir, :I have never been any place ea earth where this problem has received less real sympathy and less true considers ation than on the floor of this Can") adieu House of Commons. In 1922 the Mackenzie King Gav- ernment started out on the right lines with a trade policy of gradualiy re• ducing tariff restriction on alt neces- saries, with reciprocal trade prefer- ences towards all countries willing to meet Canada upon mutually favorable terms. These are the two factors which will tend towards a perman- ently successful agriculture and the encouragement of industry, shipping, and international trade. In that way and in that way only, Mr. Speaker, can a Canadian government ever se- cure and broaden and develop the necessary markets which Canadian agriculture must have in order to lift the Canadian farmer out of that slough of despond, in which he is now placed. It is true that along the lines of lower tariff the Government did advance at a rate of rather snail -like rapidity, but in their effort, they had to face the obstruction of a world of advancing tariffs surrounding almost every nation, . Nevertheless under that policy, that government made a wonderful record —a record under which Canadian ag- ricultural production grew from $1,- 389,000,000 in 1922 to ever $1,806 mil- lions in 1928 with an increase in the value of manufactured goods produc- ed, from $2,482,05)0,000 in 1922 to nearly $4 billions in 1929 with an an - crease of manufacturing employees of 474,430 in 1922 to 711,000 in 1929. Canada's foreign trade also increas- ed from $1,501,731,341 in 1922 to $2,- 654,574,166 in 1929 although,' owing to world conditions it fell back to $2,393,212,000 in 1930, a growth in which Canada led the world in her per capita exports of manufactured and semi -manufactured goods -even leading Great Britain, France, Ger- many and the United States, a growth which no other nation of 10,000,000 people, in any similar period of the world's history ever attained. It is true that even such a record did not prevent the present world de- pression from partly reducing Can- adian trade along with that of other nations in its train of economic de- struction. This shows that we are living in a world where no nation can live unto itself. In this respect I cannot help re- calling that 'in this House some time ago, I drew pointed attention to the fact that, while a policy of high tar- iffs had been discounted for an age, protectionists still chatter its shib- boleths;, that 1,028 1,028.e.f..the. leading ex- port economists from 46 States of the American Union met President Hoover, on the 15th of May, 1930, and made one of the strongest appeals in history against the high tariff of the United States. Some two years ago I also recalled how that Great Brit- ish Economist, Sir George Paish, bad declared that "unless the United States and manycease other r nati ns o telling their people you must sell here but you must not sell there, the world is facing an economic cataclysm, from which no country can escape." With the exception of Great Bri- tain, and Canada under the adminis- tration of Mackenzie King, the world has largely paid no heed to the warn ing, but has kept on in its wild rush towards higher and higher protec- tion. The United States has built up the highest protection wall in its history. In the ten months since the passage of the Hawley -Smoot Tariff Bill, 46 other nations have raised their tar- iffs against commodities exported by the United States with the result that in those ten months the export trade of that country has decreased by one- third or over $1 000,000,000.00 and to- day there are over 7,000,000 unease ployed within her borders. The reaction has began. Already a great boom has been launched a- gainst President Hoover and for Gov- enor Roosevelt's nomination for the Presidency. Following the American example, the world has been going tariff mad. Australia has followed with most dis- astrous results. Her export trade has greatly fallen off. The value of the Australian pound has shrunken by over 30 per cent., until she is so nearly bankrupt that in a forlorn hope she has abandoned the gold standard, and now scarcely knows which way to turn to meet her financial obligation. Continued on Page Four THE LURE OF MAY I wonder if there's one who would not stay A little longer at the call of May, To pick the violets and wander where The lilies and the lilacs scent the air. If God should come to dwell within this room, I think He'd make it gay with apple bloom Sweet as the blushes of a maiden shy, And have the windows face the west- ern sky. H. ISABEL GRAHAM REPORT OF HOG SHIPMENTS The following is) the report of hog shipments for month ending March 31, 1931: Seaforth—Total hogs, 68; select bacon, 27; bacon, 30; butchers, 5; lights and feeders, 8. Walton—Total hogs, 88; select bac- on, 25; bacon, 47; butchers, 14; lights and feeders, 2. Exeter—Total hogs, 41; select bac- on, 11; bacon, 26; butchers, 4✓ .Hensall---Total hogs, 176; select bacon, 46; bacon, 9$.; butchers, A5; 'V&A, I:11M Bele ..ib Atm, . 75; 1„ lights a furan select :bacons 1.:,2 :hers,:331; 2; lights and: STAF Mr. and Mrs. Jahn `Wilma, ford, spent Sunday with Mr a ,. .1. M. Gray. • Mfr.: and Mrs. Walter O'Brie Flint, :Mich., are visiting at the arms of Mr. and Miss F. O'J3rien. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Rowe, Guelph, visited with Mr. and. Mrs. G. G. Wile: son: on Sunday. ' Miss Jennie Hogg spentthe weep' end at her home near Seaforth. LONDESBORO Rev. Mr. Forrester was in Hensel! last week. Mr. Fred Johnston, whe is employ- ed in Sarnia, spent the week end at his home here. Miss Little, who is attending the Stratford Normal, spent the week end at her home here. Mr. P. E. Grey, teacher at Palm- erston, was the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mas. W. Grey, of the 13th concession, over the week end. Mr. and Mrs. W. Lyapn, of the Gravel Road, was in Blyth Monday. Mr. and Mrs. G. McCall spent las Sunday with relatives near Wingham. Mr. and Mrs. Gaunt, of St. Ellens, Visited the tatter's mother, Mrs. H. Lyon, over Sunday. Mrs. J. Lyon has gone to spend: some of the summer months with her daughter, Mrs. W. Govier. Mr. J. Fingland is niot enjoying as good health as his many friends would like to see. ,Mr. and Mrs. B. Nett, ',of Stratford, spent several days last week with friends in the community. The W. A. of the United Church held their regular monthly meeting at the hoarse of Mr. and Mrs. Win. Brigham last Wednesday. There was a splendid attendance. All those who took part deserve much credit. A very enjoyable social hour was spent, at the close, when a ten -cent lunch was served. Miss A, Fingland, who enjoyed a. very pleasant three. weeks' visit with Toronto friends, has returned. Mr. Bert -Grey, of -Stretiferd•,.-spent the week end at his home here. Mrs. Snell is visiting relatives in: Seaforth. WALTON The Late John A. Watt.—The sum- mons of death came very suddenly,to' a veryhighlyre s respected resident of this section in the person of John Watt, of Walton, on Saturday morn- ing, April 25th, when he succumbed without warning to an attack of heart. trouble, the culmination of a seizure of influenza which he suffered three - years ago, and from the effects of which he never fully recovered. He was a son of the late George Watt and was born on the eleventh of March, in the yea 1874, on Lot 10,. Concession 13, Hutt Township. Here he lived until ear y manhood when, he engaged in farming on Lot •6, Con- cession 13, of the same Township. On. January 31, 1900, he married Miss Tessie Muldoon, of McKillop Town- ship. and five years later disposed of the farm on which they lived to Mr. R. Pratt and for the ensuing two• years hacl their residence on the lath. concession of McKillop. In 1907 he erected a home in Welton and enter- ed into partnership with George E. Ferguson as drovers. To him belongs the honor of making the first ship- ment of live stock over the Guelph and Goderic.h Railway, when first op- ened for traffic. The partnership of Ferguson & Watt existed for six• years, when Mr. Ferguson moved to Toront to reside. Mr. Watt continued the business until the time of his death. He was a man of admirable personal characteristics, honest and" upright in all his dealings, and was one of the most esteemed drovers that went on the Toronto market and won a host of friends and business associ- ates who sincerely regret the passing; of one of such an outstanding per- sonality from the social and business life of the community. The late Mr. Watt was a former Presbyterian and a member of the Masonic Order of Brussels. He is survived by his wi- dow, three sisters, Mrs. James Ham- ilton and Miss Mary Watt, Blyth, Mrs. William Gibson, Wroxeter; two bro- thers, Messrs. Robert and James Watt, Blyth. The funeral took place on, Monday afternoon from his late resi• - dence and was one of the largest held in the vicinity for some time. Rev. Mr. Richard, Anglican Church, Bras - eels, assisted by Rev. Mr. Weir, pas- tor of St. Andrew's Church, Blyth. conducted the services, followed by Masonic burial rites. Interment was made in Brussels cemetery. Friends, attended from Toronto, Hamilton, Guelph, Michigan, Owen Sound and Ripley. Floral tributes were: Pil- low, Masonic Order, Brussels; wreaths. Mr. and Mrs. 'Geo. E. Ferguson, ".To- ronto; wreath, Blyth Citizens' $aitd; wreath, Mr. and Mrs. George and Leo Watt., Blyth; spray, Mr. and Mts. • J'. Berme Listowel; spray, Mr. and Mrs.. A. Wells and Mr. and Mrs. Jas. 'Watt, Toronto; basket Mr, and Mrs. R. Wa';t. and Miss Mary Watt, Blyth. The pail bearers were the neighbors, I eaat'th Geo. Jackson, F. H. lllihlelrt dbliili+ Bernie, Wm. 'Stewart, Peter Gardiner'!• and Robt, Reid. The deepest a a is extende4 to the itortotfingt' f o 4 't arelay'