BEAUTIES OF THE CITY.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1932, Page 7

BEAUTIES OF THE CITY.

Ottawa is revealing herself to the delegates during the intervals in their labour as a beautiful city The wide sweeping river, which becomes a great frozen sleigh thoroughfare in the winter months, now carries a busy traffic of river boats, barges, pleasure launches and canoes. Several canod clubs are dotted along the banks with a fashionable membership. These resorts are populated also for tennis and dancing. Delegates have yielded to the allurements of the French quarter of the city, named Hull, just across the river in the Quebec province, where the liquor restrictions are relaxed and where there is brighter night life. The Chateau Laurier is one of the best hotels in North America, luxuriously appointed and proportionately expensive, but . the official delegates are the guests of the Canadian Government. Parliament House stands majestically on Parliament Hill behind the Chateau, five minutes’ walk over the Rideau Canal, joining the Rideau and Ottawa Rivers. Here crowds watch the stumpy e-nal boats going through a series of six locks similar to those on the Thames and Murray. A party of delegates were amused at hearing a mother calling io her children: “Come and see the steamer going down the stairs.”

The spacious Parliame. grounds, with wide terraces, provided an ideal setting for the pageantry of the opening ceremony. Now red-coated Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen, revolver holsters in belts, continually pr.ee the paths. Delegates and Pressmen are required to present cards for admission to the building, whose 500 rooms have been vacated by the Commons and Senators and entirely occupied by the conference delegates and their numerous staffs.

Dr. Manion, Minister of Railways, of Irish descent and breezy manner, presides at the Press interview t'.'ice daily. He endeavours dutifully to make bricks' out of strawless communiques. This studied official silence is inevitably responsible for columns of newspaper articles based on lobby gossip, but it is expected that the communiques will shortly contain some news. HONOUR FOR MR. S. M. BRUCE. HON. BENCHER OF LINCOLN’S INN. Ottawa, Aug. 1. Lord Blanesborough has telegraphed that Mr. S. M. Bruce has been elected an honorary bencher at Lincoln’s Inn.

Mr. Bruce spent the holiday preparing for to-morrow’s currency sub-committee, whose report will probably be ready for the conference at the end of the week.