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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18234, 1 November 1933, Page 6

The situation of some Canadian manufacturing towns, in these days of rei renchmenl in private spending ns well as national, is reflected in a brief passage from a letter received by a Gisborne resident from a correspondent in Windsor. Ontario, one of the border cities which boomed with the motor trade, when American companies established subsidiary -concerns te manufacture their cars on British soil. The reference is as follows:—“I can assure you that we will be pleased to see any of your boys who come this wav—but do not advise them to do that- at present, as this place is dead. Our chief industry is automobiles, and the Ford, Chrysler, Dodge and other companies have their plants here, but they are closed down most of the time, so you can guess that that makes it pretty bad. The weather is the greatest mixture it is possible for a man to stand.” the writer adds. “Nearly all July it was ].OO degrees all day, then in the early part of August it went down to 50 degrees; soon we will be having it zero, then 10 degrees, 12 degrees and so on below, until next spring. We can walk half a mile across our river in the depth of winter, and that saves boat fares to Detroit, anyway. 1 *