EASTWARD HO!

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 16, 19 July 1932, Page 7

EASTWARD HO!

ACROSS THE PRAIRIES

CP.R. DELEGATION SPECIAL

; WINNIPEG,. 17th July. "The Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa will be a success.. It must be.' *•■ This is the expressed opinion of Mr. S. M. Bruce (Australia) and Mr. Downie Stewart (New Zealand), interviewed at Eegina on their way to Ottawa, and who stated: "The Conference arose out,of a stark necessity. It has got to be a success in. our own interests and in the interests of the whole world."

- Speeding'eastward across the prairies ; the_ Australian, and New Zealand- delegations spent an ■uncpmfortably hot day, the average temperature being 90 degrees. They passed -. hundreds of miles of ripening wheat and oat crops. The Australians observed:that all were short-stalk crops and.learned that these .■varieties are universally: grown on. the prairies because they mature rapidly. The special Canadian! Pacific .train,, nearly a quarter of a mile long, consisting of fourteen, steel cars each weighing 90 tons, averaged 60 inileß an. honr on the 1000-mile run from Banff to Winnipeg,'the world's greatest granary. As an indication of the intense Canadian interest in the Conference, Winnipeg journalists boarded the train 150 miles to the westward to obtain interviews. ,