FRAUDULENT RETURNS.
ACTION BY CANADIAN AUTHORITIES. By Telegrapn.—Press Association.— Copyright. OTTAWA, 26th March. The Federal authorities of Canada are prosecuting the owners and operators of numerous western elevators on charges of making fraudulent returns and improperly Wending superior and inferior grades of grain for foreign markets. On 28th January last a deputation representing several associations waited on the Minister of Trade and Commerce and urged that the Government should take over the control and ownership of the terminal grain elevators at Fort William and Port Arthur. The deputation urged tbat Government ownership and control of terminal elevators would be a guarantee to the farmers and the milling industry against the mixing of grains, errors in weight, and any other speries of fraud that might come from piivate ownership. Sir Richard Cartwright said the recommendations of tke deputation, with which be in the main agreed, would receive full consideration by the Government.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 72, 28 March 1910, Page 7
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