CANADIAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 255, 23 September 1930, Page 8

CANADIAN NEWS.

This year’s apple crop for British Columbia is estimated at 3,000,000 boxes. Over 20 per cent, of this crop will be shipped to Great Britain, and between 400 and 500 carloads ot 750oOlbs. boxes will be railed to Ontario. Most of the fruit is grown about the Okanagan Valley, into which the Canadian National Railways have recently built new lines. In 1929 fish exported from Canada was valued at £7,200,000. Exports were made to South Africa, West Africa, Portuguese Africa, Egypt, India, Ceylon, Strait Settlements, Australia, New Zealand, British Oceania, China, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Dutch East Indies. Dutch West Indies, British Guiana, Dutch Guiana, Brazil, Chili, Columbia, Venezuela, Cuba, Porto Rico, San Domingo, Haiti, Mexico, and the British West Indies. Australia and New Zealand imported British Columbia salmon of more than £540,000 value.

A banana apiece for the entire population of Canada was brought into Montreal a few days ago in the steamer, Lady Rodney. The cargo, according to Mr J. M. Pringle, president of the Canada-West Indies Fruit Company, was the largest ever landed in that port. There were approximately 83,250 stems. Stems, Mr Pringle explained, are divided into six, seven, eight and nine hands, with about a dozen fingers to each hand. The shipment, it is estimated, therefore totalled nearly nine and a half million single bananas —one apiece for every individual in the Dominion. The cargo was shipped to all parts of the country. . An estimate compiled by the Dominion Department of National Revenue, Ottawa, puts the gross agricultural wealth of Canada in 1929 at approximately £1,595,726,600. The total revenue from agriculture last year was £333,443,600, of which Ontario accounted for £101,886,800; Quebec, £64,084,400; Saskatchewan, £61,861,600; Alberta, £45,717,800; Manitoba, £26,819,000; British Columbia, £11,047,000; Nova Scotia, £8,716,600; New Brunswick, £7,970,800; and Prince Edward Island, £5,344,600. Field crops contributed the major portion of the total revenue with a production valued at £195,950,000, while dairy products came next in importance with an estimated value of £58,000,000. Farm animals were third with a value of £42,087,400, while poultry and eggs had a value of £21,869,200.