JAPAN TO NEW YORK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 9, 12 January 1926, Page 4

JAPAN TO NEW YORK.

VIA SEATTLE: Seattle continues to hold fne bulk of the silk cargoes reaching American shores from Japan, due to the saving in time made on the Seattle-Oriental trade route (says the Foreign. Trade Department of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce). Recently a cargo of silk brought to Seattle by the President Jefferson arrived in New York in 13 calendar days from the time the ship left the dock at Yokohama. In one day recently passenger ships of the Ameri-can-Oriental and the N.YJ_. and O.S_L Lines delivered 12,000,000 dollars' worth or raw silk in Seattle for rail shipment to New York. DOMINION* WHEATGROWERS. NUMBER 7000. In the various proposals that have been made to the Government. in connection with wheat control, rererence has been made to the large body of'wheatgrowers' opinion supporting "" them, says the " Chrlstchurch Press." It was stated at a meeting- recently that 400 wheat growers were represented at the conference which asked the Government for a fixed price. It no doubt .will surprise most farmers to learn that there are, In an ordinary season, over 7000 wbeatgrowers in the Dominion. In the 1922-23 season of the Wheat Board's operations, 6000 odd cheques were paid to 5500 growers. This number represented growers or milling wheat sold to millers working under the scheme. A certain number of growers sola to millers not "working under the scheme, and there was also a proportion or growers "or rowl and seed wheat. The opinion of such an army on the merits or demerits of control can scarcely be obtained through the medium of a'meeting. RENTS IN CANADA. LOWER THAN IN U.S.A. Mr. Roger W. Babson, one or America's leading statisticians, discussing the rent situation, says: "The best living conditions on the American continent to-day are probably round in Canada. The Canadians Have been noted for building substantial buildings with good-sized rooms and plenty or light and air. or course rents in Canada are greater than berore the war, but they show.no such increase as do rents in the' United States. At the present time no Canadian cities report increasing rents in any type or buildings. Moreover, a downward .tendency is evident in single iamily dwellings in, many Dominion cities. ;'Thesa statements should be carerully read an_P understood by people who are thinking or leaving Canada and coming to the States. When one considers the rents and cost. or living here, I wonder ir the people ot the States have any more money left at the end or a month than ir they worked and lived in Canada. Moreover, there is something in lire more than the laying up or money. There is a health, vigor and freedom in connection with living in Canada; which is probably unequalled' in hhy other part or the world."