RAMBLINGS IN NOVA SCOTIA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19278, 16 September 1924, Page 11

RAMBLINGS IN NOVA SCOTIA.

ADDRESS BY MB C. H. POOLE!

In the Early Settlers’ Hall last night an, interesting and instructive address on “Ramblings in Nova Scotia” was given by f Mr C. 11. Poole. Mr Poole is an ex-mem-ber of Parliament for Auckland East, and ; has travelled with Chautauqua in America. The Rev. E. Bellbouse occupied the chair. Mr Poole stated that the Nova Scotian* were closely related to New Zealanders. The history of Nora Scotia provided one,of thu* most romantio pages In British, history. The speaker made reterence to the round trip he had made to get to that country. Passing mention was made to the Roosevelt dam which was built for irrigation purposes. , The same channels were used .to-day as had been employed by tbs Indians hundreds ol years ago. Speaking of the Mormons, Mr Poole said j that they were a most well-behaved 'mid industrious people. The men there mostly found that one wife was enough. Theirs was a wonderful country. Reterence wa3 . made to the great tabernacle there; »in the : building of which no nails were used. The structure was held together with raw-hido ropes. Beside the tabernacle was a monument to the seagulls which, when the igrasshoppers had come in thousands, threatening tile crops, had come and eaten the insects, thus saving the people from stari-atron. It was wonderful to set foot once:' again on English soil, said Mr Poole. Witen ha arrived in Nova Scotia he was greatly impressed by the people there. He found that they were familiar with New, Zealand, but ho could not say the same of the people "in the United States. Half the people in. Nova i Scotia were farmers and half fishermen, i The cod were spread on the beach and afterwards put in large stacks, the odo|ir from which, the speaker humorously stated, was sufficient to drive a gas engine.' After the fishing season the ships were converted into, merchantmen. ; « The lecturer paid ‘ tribute to the fiha seamanship of the Nova .Scotians. 3 Halifax was a stern-looking city built oij ai rocky shoreline and was the terminus of a great railway line. Reference was made to the ■ great explosion which occurred there some time ago. The speaker was shown a 4.7inch gun which had been hurled three mile* <4, through the air. The residents hjd, sine# gone in for an extensive town-planning, scheme which lent the city greater attraction than before. He was shown Government House, -which, after the visit of Dr , Truby King, had bean handed.', over to. cause of child hygiene. ' The speaker then went on to tell of Gaps Breton Island, where Dx Alexander’Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, had', carried out his first experiment with that telephone. It was from there that , four, ships had set out under the leadership of : the Rev. Norman M’Leod for the settlor , mont of Waipu. At Prince Edward Island Mr Poole met quite a number of people who had’ relatives in New Zealand. The speaker spoke of tha fox farms. In one case, ho said, 30(000 dol- , lars had been paid for a pair of silver-foxes-The grewt timber industries of New Bruns- j wick were also mentioned. In conclusion, the speaker stated that-tha future of Nova Scotia was in the balance owing to the shortsighted policy of the,: British Government. Both New Zealand . and Canada depended on the British market, and if its purchasing power failed then Canada would have to turn to the United States market. The Republic had passed through an unprecedented state of ~ pros- / perity, and owing to the influx of Canadians into the United States the. population of Canada had depreciated by. 50,000 since last year.