“BOOM TIMES IN CANADA”

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26800, 4 August 1952, Page 6

“BOOM TIMES IN CANADA”

Industrial Progress Described MR A. RIVE RETURNS TO NEW ZEALAND (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, August 3. ‘The«e are boom times in Canada, though 100,060 of the country's working population of 6,000,000 are still unemployed,” said Mr Alfred Rive, Canadian High Commissioner to New Zealand, to-night, when he arrived at Whenuapai by air from North America. Mr Rive has spent two months in Canada for consultations, and to attend to personal business. Features of the boom were increases in shipbuilding and railway construction, ahd the laying of pipelines tq take oil east from Alberta and Vancouver, Mr Rive said. Iron deposits had been discovered in Quebec and Labrador, and new iron mines were operating in the east. The development of the north was proceeding apace. Mr Rive said the Dominion’s unemployment was not serious, for there was a great deal of seasonal work in industry. At its peak, the unemployment figure had been 250000.

Canadians were well satisfied with the way in which New Zealand was carrying out its part of the recent agreement to send beef to the United States, while Canada (whose meat has been banned in the United States because of foot-and-mouth disease) supplied Britain, said Mr Rive.