BUSY CANADA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 308, 28 December 1940, Page 3

BUSY CANADA.

WARTIME EXPANSION

The Dominion Statistician of Canada in a review KS ,, c d last month sliowed how business operations were expanding, hsteinal trade had increased due to war m.n e, T nem *: For t,lc ni "e months of the mining industry recorded a gain ot about 13 per cent in output. Advanios were shown in base metals, while gold recorded a recession of nearlv ."» per cent Keeeipts at the mint were 3.G62.991 fine ounces-, against 3.842.269 in the first nine months of 1930. Advances were shown in silver shipments and coal production. Newsprint output Increased 23 per cent- raw cotton consumption had advanced 65.7 per centr,mbtr.. oUtpU t , £ '""easeO 13 per cem "Su pir cem Per Cent ' an<l ptg lron was up » m v « hlcle Production, including trucks for military purposes, rose from 110.000 to lis DM units Imports of crude petroleurn Yndlcaunc conditions in the oil Industry^^sV Thy neirt, U per cent. Crude rubber imports Increased b> 40 1^ 1 lncr ? ases "ere reported In railway fS? .» tr ?^. recelplJS: electrie power pndueuon and In building construction, the last bv 57 cent over the llrst nine monthTof 1939 DtT