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travelled through the West swing-tailed aircraft. and the ‘r

and plans trips to other parts Iver Dart. which made the ' of the country in search of Commonwealth's first power- lniormation. Dr. Brown is ed flight at Baddeck, N.S., in sliowr. with models of the Ca- 1909.

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tracts.

‘ Winchester King, B.C. assoc- iiation president, said such bids gare "unrealistic and Irresponsi- |bie" and added that his assoc- .iation is trying to get. the B.C.

Dr J. J. Brown, Montreal businessman and historian. is compiling what he describes , as the first comprehensive his- j tory of Canadian inwntion and .

O=n Bidding By Contractors

technology. He has already 7 nadair CL-44. the world's first l (CP Photo’) igovemmem to set up qua““ca_ ' tions for bidders.

e o o competition from speculative! Ontario president J_ B. wa_

Roadbuilders Suggest Limit ~«..»...... said .w....m. of

Association presidents from l equipment should he one qualif- Nova Scotia to British Colum-l'°at‘°“‘ bia

said inexperienced outfits other delegatm ‘“'gg°‘<'m

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been I 41.0-per-cont no mean the»high and low bids of 99 contracts. _

The bids reflected “stiff com‘ petition" resulting from a dc-I crease in the volume of work‘ available, inroads by contrac- i from other provinces. “the inexperience of an abnormal number of small contractors" and “desperate bidding on the part of under-financed contrac- tors attempting to accomplish a cash flow to maintain finance payments on equipment chases.‘

Nova Scotia president H. W. Doane suggested credit on con- struction equipment purchases is too easy. He also noted that many small contractors did not take into account cost or head of a job when bidding on it

The reports came during the Canadian Good Roads Associa- tion convention hcre. which has attracted about 1.200 delegates from business. industry and government. Thursday, deputy , ministers from each province will report on the state of their oads.

In Quebec. reported as tioh president Gaston Mailhog, “everybody thinks he is a contractor" since the provincial government be- gan issuing public tenders on highway jobs in 1960

Chemicals Seized From Cuban Ship

OTTAWA tCPi -- Revenue of- ficers seized 1.685 bags of chem- from a Cuban freighter in Montreal Tuesday to investigate whether they are States origin, Revenue Minister Hugh John Flemming told the Commons Wednesday.

and his

Canada does not allow

shipment of U.S. goods to Cuba through this country. Mr. Flemming denied reports that religious literature and 168 cases of either nuts and bolts or zinc stearate were seized. He told Paul Hellyer (L—Tor onto Trinity) that he is unable to fest was filed by the vessel or whether charges will result.

state whether a false

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being permitted to clear Cana- inspection of the freighter-‘s dian ports. it became known cargo. Wednesday. Other informants intimated

The disclosure came in the wake of a move by customs agents in Montreal Tuesday night detaining a consignment of goods stowed on the Cuban freighter Bahia dc Siguanea, about to sail for Cuba.

Officials her-3 said the action illustrated the extra care Can- ada is taking to see that this country is not used as a back door for American-made goods whose export to Cuba is banned by the United States govern-

that the inspection procedure has been in effect

we attempts to evade Canadian export regulations on shipments to Cub

At least one such attempt evidently was successful. Port sources in Montreal said ma- chine parts were smuggled to the Caribbean island earlier this year, under cover of relig- ious pamphlets, in a vessel out of Montreal.

In addition to banning the .‘ "bootlegging" of A m e r i can- made goods through Canada. the Canadian government main- tains its own rigid embargo on export of strategic materials to

These include all commodi- ties except a limited range of medicine and foodstuffs.

Reports from Montreal said the goods held back included

machine parts, nuts and bolts, C“b3- , and Canon, 0; , chemical‘ Meanwhile, figures obtaineo named pa,-mat”. here Wedne ay showed at

Canadian exports to Cuba in the first seven months of this year were little more than one-third of those in the same period last originated in the United States. year - about 55300-000 com- pared to about Sl8.300,000. FLLOWED INSPECTION 1'————--—--—-----'—'-—-‘ Customs o f f i c e r s “found * something looks suspi- cious,” he said. The discovery {was made during a “normal"

The shipment was detained, said an informed source here, on suspicion that at ast some of the goods consigned to Cuba

TIME LOST Time lost in labor disputes in Caneda in 1961 amounted to l.335,l0i. man-working days.

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