CANADIAN NEWS ITEMS

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1785, 22 July 1926, Page 6

CANADIAN NEWS ITEMS

10, 1 290,063 dollars to 13,952,262 dollars. German imports rose from 6,756,611 dollars to 9,981,019 dollars; exports from 24,234,685 dollars to ’0,744,210 dollars. Netherlands imports rose from 5,082,842 dollars to 6,854,17 S dollars; exports from 12,644(245 dollars to 2’,476,617 dollars. Total foreign imports (other than the British Empire) rose from 601,944,382 dollars to 719,701,685 dollars; exports rose from 593,934,640 dollars to 716,599,547 dollars.

Ottawa: According to the International Agricultural Institute, Canada’s average wheat yield per acre in 1925 was 19.2 bushels, compared with 12.9 bushels in Ithe United. Stated. The quinquennial average in Canada was 13.8 bushels, exceeding that of Poland, India, Algeria, Morocco, Tunis, Argentina, and Australia. Quebec: Canada has received 482,906 dollars on account of German reparations under the Dawes plan. Canada’s ishare amounts to 4.35 per cent of that received by the United Kingdom.

SELECTED FROM LEADING PAPERS. (Supplied by Reuter’s Ottawa Bureau.) Quebec: A three-year-old cow, Julia the property of Dr Gustave Langerlier, director of the experimental farm, Cap Rouga, near Quebec, has created a. new Canadian record by producing 10,181 lbs of milk and 490 lbs of but-ter-fat in the last twelve months. This displaces as champion another Quebec cow, Marjolaine, which has 484 lbs of butter-fat to its credit fi*r a like length of time.

North Portal (Saskatchewan): The local golf course 'ils probably unique in that the first tee is in the United States and the first green, -together with the remainder of the course, in Canada. So far there has been no trouble with the immigration authorities on either sid,e. The nineteenth hole is in Canada, and most of the members are from the United States. .Winnipeg: Pushing a wheelbarrow containing their worldly possessions, Mr and Mrs D. J. Leroux, of Johannesburg, South Africa, reached Winnipeg on 27th May. The .couple left Johannesburg on 22nd December, 1922, since when they have travelled over 10,000 miles on foot. It is their intention to go round the world. Winnipeg: In less than three years the farmers of Western Canada have built up the largest co-operative grainselling organisation in the world—the Canadian wheat pool—with its three units the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. The pool has now a membership of 125,000, controlling the produce of 13,230,000 acres out of a total of 121,000,000 acres sown in wheat last year in Canada. Ottawa: In lesis than twenty years the annual production of the dairying industry in Canady has risen in value from 94,000,000 dollars to 300,000,000 dollars. This, advance is : the more remarkable when it is remembered that a very large proportion of the increase is due to the advancement of dairy farming in the prairie provinces, which seven yeans ago could not produce enough for their own needs, and are now large exporters of butter and cheese. Victoria (British Columbia): 'Semiofficial arrangements have been made for the interchange of rare plants and seeds between British Columbia and the antipodes. A large number of Australian varieties have already been imported* and will be acclimatised to the rigour of the Canadian winter by degrees, with annually decreasing periods in hot houses. -Most attention ils being paid to Australian flowering shrubs. Montreal: The population of Montreal is now official estimated to be 820,000. The area-of the city’is 32,155 acres, giving a per capita area of 1750 square feet, and a per capita property valuation of 1270 dollars. Ottawa: The Canadian capital, Ottawa, celebrates its centenary in August. Part of the celebration will take the form of recognition of the work done at the Dominion Experimental Farm by Dr Charles E. Saunders, Dominion cerealist in 1904, who gave the world Marquis Wheat, which has increased the wealth of North American hard-wheat growers by many millions of dollars. Lalst year 90 per cent of the Canadian wheat crop and 60 per cent of that of the United States were produced from Marquis wheat seed. Dr Saunders is now living in retirement in Ottawa on a handsome annuity granted by the Government in recognition of his work' in the advancement of scientific agriculture. Ottawa: While a transcontinental train of the Canadian national railways was passing through Holdten, Alberta, a wireless programme was heard by the passengers broadcast from Vera Cruz, Mexico

Ottawa: Two years ago a young Ottawa lad, Desmond S. Burke, aged 19 years, won th'e coveted King’s gold medal for marksmanship at Bisley. The prize money he won amounted to 2500 dollars, to which was added a 'like amount by fellow citizens. Very wisely he chose to spend this sum in educating himself, and elected to go through Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, where he has ust been awarded the Sanford Fleming scholarship in science. He will be a member of the Canadian 1926 team at Bisley. Ottawa: The Canadian High Commissioner’s office in London has cost the Dominion a total of 815,573 dollars during the last eight years. The expenses in the first year of this time were 78.545 dollars, while they increased to 120,952 dollars last year. Ottawa: Although 54.2 per cent of Canada’s external trade is divided between the British Empire and the United States, other foreign countries are becoming increasingly important factors in the Dominion’s trade. Imports from Belgium during the last two fiscal years have increased from 5,067,866 dollars to 6,957,668 dollars; and exports from 16,639,869 dollars to 22,706,945 dollars. Imports from China rose from 2,529,580 dollails to 2,547,995 dollars; exports from 7,838,187 dollars to 24,473,446 dollas, due to he?vy purchases of grain. Imports from France rose from 15,460,625 dollars to some 19,162,420 dollors; exports from