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'~. o-i-r/iwa, June o (Special by. let- ‘ti-Parliament alter four m0nthr.moantain' d nine days went or is going out a "mum iwsicn in a more or lees Merv ma. Discussion for the hast week. iii; particularly for the int three days has bgen particularly acrid and i5 morning and afternoon and ev- in; the prospects of prorogation ked rather remote. There was a ttle royal this afternoon betwee l e lion. Mr. Bennett and two embers oi the Government. the ons, Mr. Dunnlnﬂ liild M!) YEW‘- which the latter two came ‘badly 5g, Then Mr. .Wi. worth ramp- ed over the‘ Winnipeg strike. This te of reciprocal feeling of milit- Entlsm only developed, in an acute , in the dylngcays, and may ‘invc been due in some extent to ' iiic irritation which comes from days oi . work and x nervous main. but-certainly not from a h temperature in the way of 1 mmcr heat, as there has not yet pen a warm day. Usually the ther- iicmetcr at this time cf year has a pod deal with the temper of Par- ment and the desire of members get home. In reviewing the work of the ses- on. there have bce‘n some strata of terest, but nothing very proﬁtable ; complished. Much of it has been ii a negative character. Outside g1 some rather doubtful changes in the ﬁscal policy there h been no- lng of a constructive ch ractcr. A d many are inclined to think that c policy has been destructive ra- cr than constructive so far as the industrial interests are concerned. but time will tell. The House, as a House made a very hoheetcflorrto

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There are at least £000,000 peo- in the llllmlllns clauses of the Customs Act. Orders in cou cil under which were cﬂllliellﬂd by the Government at the request of the Progressive and Lib. eral Progressive elements tin Parlia- These 2,000,000 people have made representations through dele- gations and members of Parliament, but without turning a hair s0 ini- I shall not say that it has been ad. ‘amant. but it has been consistently and inconsistently evasive thr0ugh_ To show how it has back- llcddled and avoided the question. I have made a pracis of what, hm; occurred. respecting which readers may judge for themselves and 5r) far as the growers are concerned it ll l-ll" "lost lmportnnt question that has faced thc country for years,

A vcry lllrlie delegation of grow- ers, representing all parts oi Can- aua. but particularly Ontario and Quebec. met the Prime Minister and Members of the Government on Fri- day thc 27th oi April in the Railway Committee Room of the Parliament Buildings, and were introduced by Mr. Kay. Chairman of the Agricul- tural and, Colonization Committee. ‘evolve something _use_iul and lmpor- Mr. Burrows, Secretary of the Hor-

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duced the speakers. who represented associations of poultry-men. fruit and vegetable growers. Mr. Cham- "rs, Vernon. B. C., outlined the conditions in the Okanagan district in respect of iruit and vegetables. The bargain days in fruit, he said, come around when there is a collis- ion between the growers in Canlida and the United States just south of‘ the line. when dumping occurs in crder to dispose of the American surplus at prices which do not rep- resent a dead loss to American growers. Mr. Chambers stated that during the period the orders-in- council against dumpin were in

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ionizaticn suggests that it was the labor that brought forth 0 policy oi the Govern- ment has not been altered in any mMBYlBl-Fcspect by the result of se- veral months of investigation. These matters will form the subject of a

West bought their apples cheaper than the prices prevailing in the United States. Mr. Chambers stat- ed that if the Capital was as avail- able to British Columbia as Ontario and Quebec, the delegation could have been duplicated in size several times over from British Columbia alone.

The speaker following. Mr. Delq worth, represented an organization of over 6,000. He explained that the dumping took place when there was carloads of American produce near the Canadian boundary. and when there was a heavy surplul and a small demand on the other side.The situation had arisen in the past at intervals and would rise again un- der similar circumstances. Nothing could prevent it. It was an econo- mic conditlon wherein orderly mar- keting is impossible to malntairhand you have “confusion, chaos. price- eutting and bankruptfil’ to the grow- crs of this country."

Fruit Growers

lvlr. Fisher. Burlington, Ont. .i>i.ke for the fruit-growers of On- o. Taking his own case; he and s associates had afalrlylarge farm with a production of about 12,5000 b;~.:;‘:ct'.= per annum, and for the last eight yenrs there had been not one year in which there was a proﬁt left fer the management, of as much as live cents a basket. They were not zrsking for higher tariff-An fact, the delegation was more or less evenly divided as between high protection and low tariff-but for protection for a short period each year. seas- onal protection against inroads of American dealers, who sought not a nominal or any proﬁt but a meanS of mirimizing their losses on surp- lusage they could not sell in the Un- ited States. They would. indeed. not demoralize their own marketby swamping it. Speaking of the ad- vantages they had enjoyed under the application oi the dumping clauses, he added: “Now that privi- loge has been taken away from us and we feel that we have been dis- criminated against." I

Mr. Robb testily interrupted: "Walt a moment. who said it was taken away"? Mr. Fisher replied: “Then I may not be correct, Sir, but that was the information I had. I am awfully pleased if it lS Still there.“

Ilon. Mr. Robb: “The Act l5 still there." \ Mr. Fisher: "Ponder-stand the Act is still there. _, But we understand the 0110!‘

making it effective has been-

withdrawn, making us thc only

industry in Canada which is not

entitled to tho duml) duty-

Mr. Fisher went on to say: _ ‘

"Our home grown\fruit without any question of doubt \is the cheap- est fruit that is offered to the .peo- pie of Canada. The average price oi strawberries, for ﬁve years llﬂld in the United States, was 17 cents. During those same ﬁve years my average price would not exceed eight cents. And they have a very much higher freight rate than there was on mine. Now then, Sir, we maln- tnin that if it is true that our home grown iruit is the cheapest fruit that is offered to the people 0f 0'1"- ada, anything that can be done that will maintain our industry all l§5 maximum cfﬂciency is in the iritei- ‘est of the Canadianconsumer.

* . Tire Consumers

As to the objections of the Pro- gressives about the consumer in thc Middle West. Mr. Fisher Siilfli "There is no fear that we will bc ble to raise the price. 1W9" if d... gave us an embarEB ‘"1 almost all our fruit. Take the

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case oi apples. We have a thir- ty per cent exportable surplus. It is exactly the same as wheat. The price in the Liverpool mur- mct settles the price for our apples just as surely as it docs for wheat, because we have an cxportablc surplus, and we feel that we should be able to keep the bulk of thc American apples out oi all classes that they are able to supply so that we will be able to have our market and mi Qxpoﬂ any more than we are doing. It b: the same with other fruits. Wrdo not export them all to England. true en- ough, but with every fruit we have we produce far more than the consumer can consume. The bulk oi the rest goes to the can- ning factories. and the factories set the price on all these fruits every year. Whatever the can- ning factory will Ply "ll! Y"? for strawberries will be the price for the consumer. We have an exportable surplus on all these commodities and consequently we want to emphasise the fact that no matte what duty you give us we cannot take advant- age of it to unduly increase the price to the consumer." Then Mr. Mackenzie King inter- jected.

"You say. no mutter what duty we give. Do you mean the Government gives or Parliament

givesi‘. ~' .

Mr. Fisher: Well, Parliament. Hon. Mr. King: jhat ls the whole point at issue In this inat- ter as I lee it at the prudent time. None of us question the right of Parliament to give any duty they wish. The point that needs eoueideratlrlnnow is whe- ther that power should be del- egated to the Government or should be‘ rotainedby Parliam-

ent. '

Mr. Fisher: Well. I am afraid that ls too hnhnﬂfi for mo.” The Prime Minister then harped on the difference between "the rate

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out the entire yearf, trying to leave the impression that that was the ef- fect oi an order-in-council and was what the delegation wanted.

Mr. Burrows then called upon Mr‘. Paul Wattlez, representing the Q116- bec Pomological Society. who spoke in French,‘ but in introducing him asked the Minister of Finance if the orders-in-council giving the Minis- ter of National Revenue power t0 ﬁx a fair valuation had not been cancelled. Mr. Robb hedged by say- ing that the Act remains there yet; but the orders-in-council allowing an oﬁicer of the department in "ﬁx values", forget them and leave thorn ‘to; a whole year-they were cancel- e . -

Mr. Llghtlser from P. E. I. ‘

..Mr. Llghtlzer, on behalf of thc Prince Edward Island Co-Operutivc Egg 8r Poultry Association, next spoke. making the same plea in re- spect of eggs as growers of fruit and vegetables. Unfortunately, he used the expression "the application and removal of duties," which gave the Prime Minister the opportunity of asking if that was what he meant.

and then added, as the record shows: Hon. Mr. Mackenzie King:

That bears out what I said.

There has been no removal of r duties at all. The placing of du-

ties is an obllgatl on the part

of Parliament. The duties that

Parliament has imposed remain

as they are. There has been no

removal by the Government of any duties imposed by Parliam- ent at all. And there is an en- tirely wrong lmpression abroad ns to what really’ has been

.done." '

Mr. Burrows then explained that the majority of the farmers did not understand "the intricacies of the collection of dumping duties, the as-‘ sessment oi duties,‘ the ﬁxing of va- lues, etc." The~essential thing was that they understood the effect of what was being done, no matter by what name it might be called.

Duty Vs. Pumping

The Hon. Mr. Robb wanted Mr. Burows to get down to “brass tacks” and tell the Government what the effects were on the production he represented. Mr. Burrows explained that he was not a grower himself. but instanced at the moment aspar- agus and cauliﬂower which were igrown in B. C. Then Mr. Macken-l ‘Z18 King asked if at this season as- paragus and cauliﬂower should be “subject to an extra duty over and above that which has been ‘placed on it” knowing, as he must have, that the delegation were not asking for extra duties at all, only for the application of a principle that is recognized in the Customs Act in respect oi all products.

The Prime Minister asked if thir- ty per cent duty was not suﬂicieni: to protect the growers of asparagus without having the "further appli- cation orf an artiﬁcial duty to pre- vent dumping" still persisting in.

additional duty, to which Mr. Bur. rows amid applause, replied: t “Thirty per cent of nothing is

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portance of the egg Canada. which had reached in value of production 530,000,000, or 000,000 mprc than the value of the fisheries which had a Minister all its own. He pointed out; that at no time during thei application ofthe dumping (zlausesa had there been any complaint of too high prices. A fair value had been fixed at 45 cents, not a high price per dorcn. consid- ering the high price of feed brought from the prairies. from $2.50 $2.15 a sack. and No. 6 grade at that. Eggs could not be produced for 21 cents per dozen. and eggs were being sol d in Vancouver at the moment for from 24 cents down to l8 cents. Speaking of the quallt oi the Chinese: eggs. he hesitated lo speak of the :food;from which they were producccl. He certainly would not in the presence of ladies.

misrepresenting a fixed value as an ‘ PRIME Mu"

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the dumping clause be eon- tinued. We hope that it will not be discs‘ to our producers or in those engaged in the trade, if ii: is not again replaced, but we feel that with it on pennan- ontly, or with the assurance that

it will be on, according to value, '

that we can go on with the ae- surance that the produc will be protected. and will have the some protection as those non-

" liable articles which may be imported. into Canada, and which m‘ protected by the dumping duty."

RE JMPOSITION URGEO

The last speaker was A. W. Neill, M. P_., Comox-Alberi-ii, who read a resolution that he had placed on the Order Paper, but which would not be reached this swsion, an fol- lows:

"Arid whereas such action is not caVled for by any body of consumers or justified by the, present price of cggﬁ and the present conditions of poultry farming‘ in Canaila; v

Thercﬂore. be it resolved this House is of the opinion that the Government shnuld consider the advisability ‘Jl relmposlng the dumping duiiy ion eggs, as form- erly imposed’, or, alternatively, increasing thee ordinary duty on eggs imported. into Canada." Mr. Neill dw cit upon the industry

MR. LIGI-‘ITWZEB. IN PRICES

Mr. Lightizer was then asked ‘to give prices of wgﬂs in Prince Ed- ward Island, whicin he did as fol- lows:

“I have a few figures here taken from our own section re- ' garding 1927. Commencing with April 4th, I wllll deal with ex- ports, which is’ our standard grade-SB cents. On April 7th. 1927-32 cents. 0n April 7th, I928—32 1-2 calms. April 16th, 1927-32 1-2 denies. April 18th, l928—32,ccnts. ikprll 21st last ycar—33 cents. April 20th this ' year-R 1-2 cents which ls still holding.“

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nothing. When the price is so low that the ad valorem duty mean! nothing, there is no pro- tectlon."

Mr. H. S. Johnston spoke in be-i half of the frozen egg dealers 1n|the situation and understood what

felicitated himself and the delega- tion. on the "exce-llent opportunity’ mﬂoi-ded "in clear up a greatness of misunderstanding“ as though the delegation did not know in eifcc:

Canada, showing how that Chinese eggs were being brought in at from iour to ﬁve cents cheaper than Can- adian frozen eggs are being sold to the bakeries.

At this point, Mr. Burrows, in an- swer to speciﬁc instances of effect.‘ read from o. letter from ‘the Sask-

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was wanted to remedy it. As npnicgy, he compared it with the one from the Maritime Provinces zeeveral years ago in connection wiin‘ iMaritirne rights. He stated iwhat they clamorecl for they dis-

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atchewan Cooperative Association. ed_ dated March 28th, 1928, as follows: time delegation was a gesture

cvered they had several _ rcvlously and already fully enjoy- (As a matter of fact, the Mari; O grievances

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fprmed in the Province of Sask- atchewan for the purpose of ‘marketing en; and poultry pro- ducts on behalf of a producer membership numbering 19,000. Some considerable body of egg producers. We wired you on the 24th February last. when we were advised of the possibility of this action being ken. and we strongly protest a inst the removal of the protectl n which we have had. That w are in- formed by one oi’ the largest breakers of eggs in Western Canada, the Canadian Comp- any, that Chinese froipn prod- ucts are already being offered on the market in Montreal at a bakers’ price of ﬁve cgnts pel- pound. owing to the removal of this regulation."

The Prime Minister asked: "Can

r lied Mr. Burrows. but he read a other letter.’ "more or less spe- ciﬁc.“

From Hall's Limited:

“We have been quoted mixed eggs packed by themselves in China at eighteen cents deliver-

" ed in Montreal. The ad valorem duty would make them cost us 21.5 cents per pound. To lay eggs down In Montreal from the West, to compete with these eggs, would necessitate our pay- ing not over fifteen cents per dozen." .

BENEFICIAL LEGISLATION

The Canadian Produce Associa- tion was represented by Mr. E. J. Smith. Among other things in speaking oi the beneficial resuhts of legislation passed since the war, he said:

"It resulted in u very large I reused consumption of eggs during the. past eight or ien years: I think almost ten doeen per clpltoqWe are now consum- ing about 30 dozen eggs per onplta throughout the Domin- ion which l an Increase of nearly l0 d per oopita in the last fen years." .

Mr. Smith cnocluded by saying:

"Then we feel too that mixed farming II one of the things that needl to be emphasised: and If poultry production and the raining of eggs fa not con- sidered part of that campaign we are failing to "a certain ex-

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you substantiate that? "I cannotf‘.

not very well defined 01' in concrele form, which were afterwards large- ly intended to be remedied by the" Duncan Report-part. of the agita- tion which (ed up to lt-R. E. G.) _ He was-inclined to believe thaifwhen the present delegation had the "true facts" before them. they would see how complete the parallel was. in order to leave an impression that the delegation was the result 10f propaganda by the Canadian ‘MEIIIUIBCIUFBTS Association. he read ia. letter addressed to a member‘ oi ‘itlvc Associated Growers of B. C. on ‘January 27th. 1928. by J. Blake Rrbertson. Secretary. and he was they would agree that that present

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‘sure lwas the beginning of the agitation. \

, BLAMING MANUFACTURERS _ , Mr. Burrows interrupted io say lthat that letter had had no con- nection at all with the starting oi the delegation and that he himself had only seen it during the past few days.

“Hon. Mr. Mackenzie King: My friend has been quick to see (h; significance of thilt com- munication and ,the impression that I think it inevitably gives l rise to. r AM nor nnawuvo ANY CONCLUSION MYSELF. I want to put before this delega- tion the facts. that you may lodge ‘for yourselves; because I think you will see before I am through just the signiﬁcance of wbal has been discussed and what in at the present time tak- ing place."

Then the spotlight was switched on to Mr. Burrows. the Prime Miri- lster remarking that what "inter- ested" him pecullarly w at the bunch of-telegrams which he had received and held in his ha d were identical in form,,u1thoug coming from different parts of the coun- try andwiiffsrent organizations. in- dlcating a common origin. He indi- cated that he took no exception to that method.‘ but gave the delega- tion io understand that the Gov- ernment _was not going to be stampeded by the quantity of tele- grams on any particular subject. Then he made this significant statement. still emphasising the im- preoslon that he intended to have sink in-that it was a matter of tariff. which the Parliament and not the Government had to deal with. as Parliament had delegated

tent In ‘doing something for wade that we believe is worth w qandsowe are asking that the clause or the result of

to the Government tbeﬁ _ to deal by Oreebih-Cdl . an exigent situation when '

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‘out iwlni that I think it ls de- sirable to make clear. Parlia- 1 meat is the body that is sup- reme in all legislation And pur- ularly in all matters of taxa- n. Now I need not say to a body of’ producers such as are - here, that the tariff is u form of taxation. A tariff serves two lllrrpoqea; It serves the purpose of p- footing industry; it also is a m of ‘H, revenue. And it is not only l, mung 9f "M!!! revenue, but also ls a form of taxation which operates in one of two ways. It may op- sate to increase revenue, br It ‘My ﬁlm-ate to decrease rev- enue. It may operate to corn. pletcly close out all i portations and to lose all reve ues that might come from the Customs tariffs that are levied. The Point. however, that I wish l0 make clear ls this. that a tariff whether it relates to natural ‘products or the like, is in the form of a tax, and Parliament is the body and the only body. which und_er our Constitution h" "l9 Pllht tojmpose taxes on 5w lit-vole: that ls a fundi- mcnial principle which the Cwe-nment has had in mind in mnslderl"! how matters should be adminisie a with which Pan- Iiamenr has dealt from a legis- lative polni. of view.”

ORDI-JRS-IN-couivcii,

After reading the Ordrwrs-in- Counlill Dassed by the Meighcn Government in 1926, and subsc- f-luently in the Smile year, liy Llbllral Government. he sires-soil thc significance of the words “nai-

that the products must be in

until the horse was stolen. If there-

have to say:

“That if it is the latter case, I think the Government would have to ‘say at once: ‘You have come to the wrong body in m“. cnting your representations: Parliament is the only body as a whole that can fix the tariff whether it be on natural pm. ducts or on manufactured 800115: and any Government that seeks to take into its‘ hands the fixing of the tariff. ls usurp- Ing the rights of Parliament. It is taking away what is one of the most sacred in the rights of the people themselves, name- ly to have their faxes imposed by the representatives they have sent to Parliament." ThePrime Minister. confirming

)_L’..'/lOllS statement made by Mr. Robb, stated that when "officials 0i the Department came to the Treas- llly Board with these orders-in-

‘l-llﬁy shpuld stand all

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"rel products" which "are being im- ported into Canada," not sometime in the future, the inference being

the process of importation and couldhot bc anticipated. In other words, the stable door could not be locked

fﬂrc. they desired a tariff to meet

emcl-Eencies, and not to be fixed for the whole year round. he would.

. ordcr-in-council was passed? -

n“ was my“. intended ma, ‘impossible lo make any‘ principle rs’ the year protection to apply uniformly. and

Customs, the right to fix-not- withstanding what the tariff says-lthe rite of duty from one end of the year to the other on clothing? On boots and shoes? 0n your agricultural Imple- ments? On your tools? On other articles of food, on anything and everything that is imported into

Canada?"

The foregoing is important be- cause the Hon. Mr. Euler, who did not want the delegation to go away with the wrong impression, gave it, in effect. the lie in the following: speaking after the Premier: '

“The one misconception, or

possibly misconception that I

would desire to remove is this:

that whereas the Order-in-

Council did give the Mlnlsier

power to fix values, and did not

state for what period those “val- ues should stand. it should not be assumed that these values were fixed by the Minister for the whole year, and they stood all the year round. I do not think you should go away with ihot impression if you have it. The Orders, In no case I think were fixed to stand for a whole year. I think _lt would be very vcry difficult for any Minister to come in and say that he has fixed the values to say. the months of .luly and August, or for any absolutely definite per- iod. The whole idea of the Min- istcr and iris officials, is f0 en- drzrvor to keep those values in force only for such time as such rmcrgcnriy exists. I do not think that there were any instances JVIICYC It was kcpt (Ii ihc year round. l think some of the trou- ble arose’ out of‘ this fact; we did fix the value of lettuce, and through an oversight in the De- parlmcnb-and I am quite will- ir-g to lake responsibility for that-at the. time it was recom- mended lo us that the fixed , value should in: taken off the lettuce, through an oversight, it

was not done, and that value l

was left on the lettuce for a

period longer than it should

have remained." _

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DILLY-DALLYING . l But in thc cnd, Mr. Paul Fisher was in a quandary. It was all vcry well to make fine distinctions to evade the real issue, but when the emergency arose and he was ready to ship asparagus and wanted pro- tection against the carloads of Am- erlcan asparagus in the offering, to smash the only market he had in which he could sell profitably, was Ihc to wait until these American Icarloads were in Toronto cr Mont- real and the damage done-the cream of the wheat lose-before the

Mr. Mackenzie King's only con- solation was that Canada. was a big country and as products came to market at different times in dif- ferent parts or the country, it was

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"boon sroaa will close at s p. m. after June 18th, Saturday ox- cepted, also closed Wednesday aft- ernoon. Quigley d: Son, Bt. Peters. 5044-6-13-31

..'I.OBS’I‘ERS are becoming so scarce that fishermen are discour- aged. At one North Bhnre factory the total catch Thursday, was only 700 pounds, from eight boats, an average of 87 1-2 pounds per boat.

..'IIOME T0 FAItlvL-Mr. Allen J. McDonald who has been to Unit- ed States for the past ten years, has returned homeWo-take charge of his’ father's ZOO-acre farm at Clear Springs, and has taken hold with a will. \

PERSONALS

..'Mrs. James Mallard, Herman- ville, was very sick last Sunday, but is now better. Medical aid helped greatly. »

..°Mrs. John R. McDonald. St. Margaret's. who was under care Si‘ two doctors, is getting better, and will recover.

..“Wiliia1n Bus-hey, who spent the whiter with tho Messrs. McEachern. Norih Side, is now visiting his son- in-lnw, Mr. P. McLean, Sourls Linc Road. ‘

..‘Congratulatlons w Miss Ethl-i Peters. Rollo Bay. on her success

. {this year at thc P. W. C.

..'Mr. Alex F. McDonald, Char- lottetown. is visiting his farm at Black Bush. building new fences and general improvements.

..‘Lorne Keys. C. N. 11., lsmak- ing his newly acquired farm/home, at Cherry Grove, possesslblc with a view to moving in very soon now and not alone either.

.."Angus Benton, Cherry Grovc, who has not been vcry well all win- ter. is recovering with thc warm sunshine. Mr. Archibald Mclsaar is working the farm for him. Mr. Bcaton has been living alone fo: many years r-inrr- coming here from New Brunswick.

. .‘Davld McLarcn, saw mill prop-

round, as had been the cam It was he did noi think Parliament intend-

‘never intended that authority

"hculd be vested in a Minister oi‘ °"d°"s'm'c°“mll

ccl that the section under which! W c r e passed]

iiotcr, Harmony Station, has non". pcririanently located ai the inill iv". a small house he built for himself. 'Mr. McLaren's mill sup- plies the powcri for the hydrauli»:

ihe Qmwn that belonged m Pam? should apply to particular situa-|rcm that fills tho Railway tank

ment alone. Such an order-in-coun- mms as they “m5”-

cil would never have passed-no Cabinet Minister would have dream- ed of passing one-had it been thought it should remain fixed the year round."

WIIY CANCELLED

T, L _ _ be played. Eighteen holes, Malchi Glyn was the reason the Ordcrs- ma“ Hangman ' “ml were carlcellﬂl And "n" Members are reminded that the

presslvely ii was observed: "Arc you in favor of giving to the officers of the Customs De- llﬂrlmeni. or to the Minister of l

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Avoid Foreign Pcdlars With Misrepresentations. WE POSITIVELY GUARANTEE

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, For household use n.‘ SDlilitCll lwashing machine has been patent fed by a resident of Brooklyn, N. Y.

Today at the Golf Links com-

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PRICE WITH ANY ADVANCE Until-Our Finst Shipping Date.

We Pay Today 26c for Unwashed Wool Plus Airy Advance As Stated Above

Another consignment of Extra (Ihoicc Western Also some Island Horses on hand. ’

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To arrive in a day or so: ~ 1 carload Extra Choice recleaned Western Oats.’ These are Seed Oats, but coming late will be sold right for feed. One bushel as good as two of Island Oats.

1 carioad Cement l Zcarloads Cedar Posts 2 carioads Shingles

2 carloads Flour and Feeds. Get our Prices on Bluestone.

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iininrd hard coal in inst 110 years.

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