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Air Marshal W. A. Curtis, CB. CHE. DSC. ED. Chief of the Air Staff. assumed the tmsiiion as head of the RCAF September l. 1947, itpoivthe retirement of Air Marshal Robert Leckie, CB, DSO, DSC. DFC. Born in Havelock. Qnt, August 23, 18513. Air Mar- shal Curtis was educated in Tor- nfltO. and left school in 1915 to loin the 34th Infantry Battalion He transferred to the Royal Naval All‘ service in i916 ‘and served overseas as a fighter pilot. Air Marshal Curtis served for eight yearsl after the First World War K.) rm officer of the ‘Poi-onto Scottish Regiment. and lnicr acted a» one of the founders of the ‘Toronto Flying Club. and assist- r:. in organization of I10 Auxiliary squadron. Toronto. becoming of- izcer CCvllmflfldilV-I in i935. Called up for active sci-vice in September. I959, he served in various senior

positions and ii\ November, 1941, vrnt overseas us Deputy Com- mander in Chief. In January. i944, he returncd to CflIl-‘ldll in

become Air Member for Air Taft a‘. Ottawa. and lnirr became N.- Memher for Air Plans k2 was in ilfs position when he became Chief o.’ the Air_Staff."_- iRCAF Photol

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"w" 11in Billy hope that steam. "B Wlll bwome more plentiful an)! that we can bring in our fertilize. feeds, etc. by water and ship bot.“- Pllllltdcs. turnips and other pro ducts the same way.“ stated bu‘ J- w- BWWEF. manager of the P.E.1. Potato Growers’ Association. l" cllmmellllllt! on the serious re suits lo Island potato shippers 1f the 21 percent railwn_v freight lII- crcase authorized by the Board u: Rlllhvfly Commissioners.

Reference to this mattcr appears in Mr. Boultei-‘s report for the year ending June 30, i947, ivluch was submitted for the directors at 1.1-. Association's annual meeting 50s terday.

Following is the text of his re- port:

This report‘ as usual deals win. matters that happened some con- siderable time ago, but fIBVBffiu- lest are of great importance ant. should be on record not only to mcmbcrs of the Association but m the public as well. While it clears with the crop year of 1946. in con ' citision we must report on SQI‘ | matters occurring Ill this business year of tne Association.

The _\car under review was m“ of the most noted during the ii most 30 roars of the organization 1t is not likely that any firm Ir. Prince Edward island, no matter what its nature, ever transacted as lnrsie a business as was done "n the office of your Association tnai 3118i‘. The total would agrgegaie bctween four and a half and ‘m: million dollars. The business of 411-. Association itself involved the handling of a larger volutnc u.’ potatoes and turnips than during the previous ycar, but due to low- er values for these products .1111 not aggregate as large a. financial turnover as in the ytear ending June, i946. and was slightly below the two million dollar mark. Bui added to the usual work of the business of the Association was tne work of the Potato Export Boom which handled the entire British order. This ivas done by our staff plus the help of an accountant fol four months and of another book keeper for possibly two months. The balance of the work was con- ducted by our regular staff.

The British order was the most wonderful thing that could have happened to save the potato in- dustry of the five Eastern Pro vinces. Preceded by the arrange- ment of a floor price with the Ag~ ricul-tural Prices and Support Board the farmer realized more than the cost of production and in addition had an outlet for his crop. With out that order thousands of can

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Recordjilrciiiiiii? Yfczir i701" Potato Growers Assn.

Mr. Boulter

It is always the producer or farm- er who suffers most and, he can only get for himself what. l: left after all these additional coal: have been paid. It always seems that. this is the unfortunate sit- nation but no one has been able to work out a remedy. The only remedy must be in the hands of the producers themselves and some day they may be wise enough a; know that their only protection rests in a bet-tor understanding 1-

lmong themselves regarding pro- duction and marketing.

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‘unfortunate because of its trans portation facilities. We cannot hope tor any outlet by water with any degree of safety after the middle of December nor can we expect a market large enough to handle cai-

goes of potatoes after navigation opens in the Spring. We must. therefore, depend on refrigerator

cars of which there is always a dearth. Never is there a time a car _witn the hope that it will be placed for you when you nced it. There is bound to be a delay and the delay may continue for weeks.

This is a worse sltuafyn than .5 experienced by any other pro vince, New Brunswick and other

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provinces arc blessed with having competitive lines. Not so here, and we are compelled to say that y: belicvc there are times when more‘ refrigerator cars could be placed at the disposal of the shippers b-l’ for indifference to our province. We do not think for an instanl that this indifference is shared in

Moncton or Charlottetown but they are helpless to place cars whicr. are not at their disposal.

It means so much to-tlie farm- ers of ‘this province to he able to ship their potatoes at a time when they have an outlet for them that it results not only in a financial loss but in a loss 0f 800d faith with many buyers who cannot get their seed requirements in suffic lent time to plant because of the impossibility of the shipper to get cars with which to move them.

Deben lures

The Association has again reach- ed that financial position which permitted it this year to return ".1 the rebating of its profit to its members or partons. The year end- ing June '47 was financially V01‘;

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of potatoes would have been de s-troyeci as there were still more potatoes than we needed in add;- tlon to filling the specified require- ments of the British.

Imagine how low tne price would have dropped if \ve had been oblig ed 0o dispose of the potafioes not only of Prince Edward Island bu!» fro Ontario east had it. not been for this outlet! 1t would have bcpi chaos and potatoes ivould have been selling for little better their: the cost of the container. ft would seem that the success of the dis posing of over 4,600 rarloads o‘ potatoes from the 1st of March Lu the 20th. of May in such an o: to every grower and tshipperdnasmuch as all growers. so far as the Board was concerned, received the sense price indicates the possibilities ma; may be carried out in an: handling of surllllls (‘"115- Th“ “mum require some form of Dom- inion marketing legislation in or- der to carry out such an undcr wiring which may b8 I V"! "u" gory matter for this Organization u well as for other shippers of the province to consider in the very near future.

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There was no particular diffi- ficulty in securing the fertilizer required for our Bl‘°“’"5 l?“ “m” i; the unfortunate situation of a difference in Drlcv Wlllcll s” 1°35 as fertilizer remains scarce will b: m"; w overcome. 1f our Island manufacturers would Illlldllve m‘ ough for the island requirement- ‘M quggflqn would be ‘solved, but wiicifthey ‘Ill l" l." m.“ u‘: month; balance mun ho boillh from the mainland manufacturers on which the frelgnt rates a_l'~l much hig er than from the [slain plum; m me government has ic- (usqd to grant any further freight equalization on fertilizer used lll the province.

Th, gnmucide situation ha! mmggd completely in the lust fell; yours and today llllll¢ °l l" ~° _ Bordeaux mixture is used l}? 60f; pariaon with that used inntwer 08M» Then lllln the use of I it; combinations have so mixed up mgny formers that they hardly know what in order. There are u‘ mlny- trade names. different brands contoining axing)’ ill: “m; combination of mote n1 an“ non. firm emplusllllll ha“; "Pa; better it» in mixed thin t l1 °

11w tint required n common name m mu sum wmlllllmgll‘ WhIliAVOI trade name enc l _ “MM Wm, w ‘do, but can: n3! the former should know ouch‘! tin . a Mrf-slvhff-ihilihiiziwlw vewx has certainly odvlnoetithel-flmm: 3' onsly and in alyllll L I“ muqnffwc include the om. _ gutunffgm products in the‘ beau! qrttib-bdhmmcrsflot only ll a‘ u“”f, pray Illli-Qflllli "w" I _ qnnchihfly advanced in Pfl" “I ceulvely but.» lm the W" l

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consult-Mr‘: it in time we had a I

the directors held in October i"- was decided to rebate 5c per bush- el on allpotatoes. shipped through the Association by growers. ‘Ins; resulted in a sum upwards of $53).’ i000. No rebates were paid on pu- tnfoes bought from other dealers. We regret very much that these

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MR. J. W. BOULTER

antee. Unfortunately there are "Hilly P¢°Ple in the province who think the Govemmenthas spent a lot of money on this Association. This is not true. The Prince Ed- ward lsland Potato Growers‘ As

sociation has not cost the Gov

ernment or the people of mi; pfg. vince one red cent, but on the cot;- IIBXY the people of this province °W° l-lle Aiwciation a sum at least Equal to $35,000 for actual exper.

zes in their behalf. It is true theie are many who know the facts. There are others who know lithe about was done and many entlrely ignorant. of the value this Asso

ciation has been to the province. In this connection your directors are including in this report the re

quest made to Premier J. Walmi

Jones regarding the loan and hi: result of the request is a gran-l illustration of asking for that u: which you are justly entitled and receiving a stone.

Following is a copy of the let- ter:

“Charlottetown, P. E. island , “September 6. i047 "Hon. .1. Walter Jones. Premier "Province of Prince Edward lsluni Charlottetown, P. E. I.

"Delu- Sir:

"The. P. E. 1. Potato Growers’

Association would respectfully bring to your attention and through you to the attention of your Government the following facts. / "l. The Provincial Government in 1935 guaranteed the P. E. I. Potato Growers’ Association's ac- count nt the Bank of Nova Scotla to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars. This followed t guarantee by the previous govern- ment for the fertilizer account in the spring of i935.

"2. This guarantee is now re- duced without any expense to tne province to $40,000. This amount i3 carried to enable the Association to finance the very large business it operates. > "3. The Association not only de veiopeci the see potato market m the period from 1910 to "1930 when its shipments wereat least 95 per cent of the seed potatoes shipped from Canada but it saved the ill dustry from ruin in 1930 by the vigorous fight it organized against an increased tariff utitli the sup- port of the large seed buyers o‘ the United states and carried the

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debentures have only now been ll sued but we could not get the forms printed in order to make 1m earlier payment. It. does not matter however as they hear date June 30th. i947 and interest. Wll-l be paid on them as from that datc. A word of explanation might be made as to_ why debentures were issued rather than a payment l“ cash. as‘ has already been stated the cost of all materials usedby potato growers has advanced great 1y in price. Therefore, to secure these commodities and have them distributed in proper time means that we must either borrow from the Bank a great deal of money or we cannot make payment for fer- tilizcr. sacks, ctr. as promptly as we should. Your directors would like w bring to your attention the matter of the guarlntee 0f thB ma]; of $35,000 still outstanding with the Government at the Bans of Nova $cotia. Your directors fee. that they should not be obligltod to pay this balance of the ‘gill!-

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Representatives in Washington. A full report is given in the U. S Tariff Adjustments 15-29. "Hear ings. before, the Committee of Way;- and Means House of RBPTBSEDLA‘ tives, Vol, 7. schedule 'l Agricu‘; tural Division". and required w page: of this large volume to pub- lish the record.

"4. The result of the fig. i. against the I-lawley-Smooi Tariff Bill 001029 asking for an increase in duty t.o'$1.00 per cwt. fromgti) I. cwt. caused- a dell-y in putting through the item on potatoes for one year thus mixing ‘half a dona: a c\vt. on all potatoes shipped to the United States that N"? l" 'l duty saving of 8760.00000-

"5. The fight later resulted n1 a. compromise lowering the duty w 7o cents per cwt. effective 1931. "6: T2: country was saved this as cents per owt. duty on all tw- tgtoeo chipped in 1931-31-33-31

and pa“. 01,1995‘ when a" reciprn cal

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. x‘. -,. ioahtmdrd i» h iii-in: them ill-of all till. ‘In: fruit from l. e olmiotlelofin who is nvinimldiru‘ mam-m outrun-m banana. oipntlcut in tbs r. I 1. uoupiui. ice‘ carried out in conjunction with the Dept. of vat ‘emu mum,» wait u on further rue Oran union for veteran! mined bl your donation-lath»

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revised and the duty was reduced to a’: 1-2 cents per cwt.

- seed and one million bushels "of

. duce 50 percent of the orillnal this . still gave us n benefit of 12 1-2

is; min" wcdiiigjvuiis from member: of the m oi-cu corps" 1m 153.2,“; ma [omen provided by thelllil Oran (Million

service: such as these will be main- Olqoim now in mime.

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treaty reduced the duty n_ cents per cwt. i "7. In i008 the above treaty was

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on a quota of 1 1-2 million busheis- or

tublestock undies the President 01' the United States could only re-

cents- per owt. under” what it would have been had the tariff ' $1.00 been enacted. This means or annual saving of $113,000 n your on th/seed quota. Also n saving of 875.000 additional when" the tablestook quota is filled. Then there Ls the further saving of 25 cents a. cwt. on 1.11 potatoes ship- ped above the quota both seed and tableatock. .

“ll. The cost of this contest in cub to the Association in 193i! and 1930 for fees. time, travelling expenses and such was it least 820.000 or equivalent to $40,003 today. .

"9. The use made of that ex- penditure has saved this province millions of dollars.-

"10. The Association believes that. Public opinion would support tiw absorption by your government J. the total amount of the guaramcg now outstanding. The public d9. monstrated in 1935 that it. wanted the Association to continue and today its value to the province is accepted as a real and vital fac tor to the success of the potato industry.

Thrfollowing arguments may oc used in favour of the suggested procedure: '

“l. The public shared the bang

fits of the lower tariff. Having done so they must feel obligated to bear their share of the expenses in securing said savings. g "2. The Association is the med lllm by which every movement in the improvement of the industry as initiated and furthered whether it be on tariffs, freight rates. mar. kelinz or other advancements. Cpncreie examples are not difficult to furnish.

"9. The profits of the organize tfdn are refundable to the primary Producer. This year possibly $60.00.) or more will be so rehated, Thug, the operators who work on salary do not profit‘ by surpluseg but rather‘ the purpose of the Associa- tion is carried out in the protec- tion guaranteed to the producer. and not to the individual gain oi the middle man. -

"4..1’t Ls recognized that. thi- ivork of this organization has a tendency to stabilize prices and prevent such extremes as occur if. price spreads in our neighboring province from which their produc- ers are seeking relief.‘ tYou may note their request through the press of the 4th. inst.)

"5. We do not believe that any lwdly 01' people expect or wish "mu organization to incur such an ex gpense in their interests and pro- Ifit without the Association receiv‘ ling compensation equal to its 00st. I It might be brought tn your A», ‘ltention that‘ whenthe potato duty iwas first imposed in 1922 it was traiced from no duty moo cents !p01' cwizwAff.ihatcdatecthiscmganlz. nation was lust nicely started ans‘ lno other body in Canada offered any protest. oonsoquentl the fc-ii duty suggested in the b l became law. The same would have hap- pened in 19211-30 had no one or- ganized a protest and it would have resulted in the dollar pa." cwt. duty rather than 75 cents per cwt. as was enacted.

Signed in behalf of the directors. J. W. Boulter. Mgr.

' Government Action

The finanoiul position ‘of the As- sociation is such that; the Govern~ ment cannot. possibly lose n cent. The financial statement Just sub mftted shows that- provision has been made for the Governmen‘ guaranteed loan and apart from that there is ~a working capita. of over $60,000. In addition to this working capital we have at. our disposal for present operation the amount of the debentures between fifty and sixty thousand dollars which is being rebated and yearly $5.000 will be set aside to redeem the debentures when due in 19.37. Therefore it is hard to understand why the Government took the fol lowing notion.

The Association from its 1940-41

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funds has already reduced guarantee by $10,000. The previous year the Government required the Pflylllelll 0! $5.000 but as the As- sociation made no profits i113; year on account of black markers ll Could "cl pay $5,000 and thc manager of the Bank of Nova .Scotia at that time disregarded the requirements of the Govern- ment. or n: least let us have ivhai. money was needed so that in this year when we were more success

ful we paid the $5,000 for the, previous year and $5,000 for 134s. 4T the Government saw fit to require that we reduce the loan m additional $5.000. It may be that they will reconsider this later "c

quest and have it as it was he

cause to pay more than $5,000 a year on the loan will involve u: in very heavy federal income tax which we now, under the new Co~ operative Act, are obliged to pay, and we do not feel that we should pay to the Dominion Income Tax office any more money than is absolutely necessary. particularly in view of the Federal Govern- ment's determination tlo make the amount paid to this province us little as possible. I-t is hard for youfdirectors ‘to reconcile the a:

tion the Government has talccn towards this Association in view of the established benefit the Asso