NEW BRUNSWICK
% SHOULD IT SECEDE? k, PREMIER RAISES THE QUESTION. DISSATISFIED WITH TREATMENT. % , tJliitO' 1 rrnse tfjM W (Received Oct.} 31, 1.30 p.m.) p •• VANCOUVER, Oct. 30. -f A from St. John (New f Brunswick) states approval of the comment made by the Premier (Hon. . J. B. M. Baxter), when he questioned the advisability of New Brunswick retaining within the confederation under the present situation arising out of the attitude taken towards the Maritime Provinces by upper Canada, was given in a resolution passed to-day by a council meeting of the board of trade. A committee was appointed to interview Mr Baxter regarding .the recent adverse grain rates decision and other matters. Mr Baxter,' when attending a conference recently of civile officials, with Mr A. C. Dawson (President of the ■Canadian Cotton 'Limited), In regard : to the closing of one of the company’s i mills, said that while he had always been a strong supporter of Confederation, the treatment'Central Canada was meting out to the Maritime Provinces had forced him to aslrhimself whether “vi’e would not be better off out of the .“ Dominion?” V.
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18164, 31 October 1930, Page 8
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