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Further Profit of $12,0iI),000 to Farmers if Brit. ish Requirements are Met, Says President of Canada Packers Limited in Evidence Given at Ottawa Before Stevens Committee. Hog Marketing Methods Exhaustively Probed.

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(mllowing ls a continuation of the evidence subm tted w 1c. J. S. McLean, president d the Canadian Packers Limited, before the Btqii- en's Parliamentary Cmnmltisc on March ‘I. Mr. McLean was ques- tioned exhaustively as to the effect 0n Canadian b0! prices of tin Brtish market es well ea on every phase of the hog msrtstiq Isaa- tiOn.) IV

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Q-Is that correct?

A——Yes.

Q-Your competitors must have

done the same?

A-The competitors, perhaps. did

not make a profit.

Q-You think you have put than

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Q-The only place that they come into contact with open compe- tition is the union stock yards we will say at ‘rcronto is where there are similar buyers from Swift's and White's?

A-Yes.

Q-Now then, at the conference before the buyer [OB on the mar- bat is there s limit set within which we mall buy or pay? A-Oh. there might be. If we have a very firm view that we dc not want hogs at a certain price the buyer might be told "Don! buy s hog for that price" but ordinar- ily all the facotrs are discussed snd heistnldtobuythenpatsosnd soifhecencrasnearfothstas ha can.

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Then is there any conference held at any time with the buyers or rep- resentatives of Swift's or the other peckaraasto the prioetobepaid? A-iwell. oi course, these men are ontheysrdsallthetimebuyinsthe same anlmsls, or buying hogs, and I haven't any doubt they discuss

me i.s, would still further ation be of any advantage to the pork producers. the farmars of Canada? If you can effect such economies ss thst by the merging

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C. P. Iy Gurvliarri Special Wire) OITAWA. March li-Unlicensed operations by chain, department and lnail order stores will crush all . s from the Canadian re-

lay without m. Melanie. the M I‘ lttlri. hi0!- irlgsboutitandlsyingplansto frustrate nature. >

in the louse yutcrdsy Mr. Mo- lensis with great solemnity expos- ed his Pmtrsmme for combating the menace. Millions of the eggs lie embedded in Manitoba soil, awaiting the call oi summer. No en has

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been bright enough to think of s wsy to lterilim the eggs. They must be allowed to hatch.

There an plans on foot for de- stroying the hatched mam. "u ready." in the words oi Mr. Mc- Kenzie. "sawdiit is moving out to strsteglcsl pcinh." The farmers will immegnate the sawdust with poison and proffer it to the grass- hoppers. laying: “We hope Nil choke.” v

from those of earlier seasons. in the pest. the grasshoppers thought- cn road edges of

wllarethaaeef ioryll‘ usxiosnusgrsfisopsasramey are allavvrtbeplace.

Amistshsmadelsstyearbyths farmer's in their poisoning opera-

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tail trade unless state regulation slaps in, ths Stevens Committee of the House of Commons was told today by A C. MacKay, Secretary of the Alberta Retail Merchants‘ Association.

He told of big-buying organisa- tiom under-selling individual mer- chant. reducing general price lev- els through mil-sq efforts and crush- ing ownpetitlon by sheer wright of their ruourccs.

Whlb the committee spent sn- other day listening to a verbal cas- tlgation of department and chain stores, Hon. H. H, Stevens an- nounced Canadian rubber compan- ies would be investigated, especial- ly through their trade organisa- tion, the Dominion Rubber Asso- cietion

Rubber fcotwcsr nmnufscturcrs. lid Mr. Mecxay, have a preferred lbt of customers. headed by six chain and department stores who receive s trade discount oi 4 per- cent. Small merchants have been told lhay cannot receive the same discount evai if they buy as much ls the department stores. Less than a yoar age. 50 or 75 Alberta rner- chants pooled their buying. offer- ing a joint order of two or three earloads (Ii I "cash basis" but they tclduamlrmcrlcywasno good and refined to deal with m." Large packing firms wew com- piled to pay a bonus to big-buying corporations, it was charged by the Alba-ts official. Ho handed the chairmen a note, bearing the name of a firm which he said had been forced hy a chain store to pay s haul at the end of the year, after granting the usual trado discount. Another firm, he said, gave s de- monstration bonus, sufficient to pay a clerk's salary st a pre- Chnstmas sale.

from issuing seductive, deceptive adverthfng and if trade discounts on e volume basis bomms. Mr. Manley said. ‘its committee will meet again when retail smoclstioos Qllheo and British Columbia are expected to be repruented.

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of four companies. why should not all the companies be merged? A-Ii you could depend upon get- ting adequate msnegemsnipe por- ‘ adequate management-it would be a [mat advantage to the farmers to merge all the operating companies. _ Q-Whst proportion of the bus- iness does your company do in Can- eds

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Ar-Oh, it is a pretty small plo- portlon of the total business.

Q-I see seoordln, to this stste- ment. you hsvo a profit oi 5 per cent since the merger on the Ihareholders investment? A-Yes. Q-Owiug to the carrying of the plants at their old value? A-At their old value. less depre- ciation. At the depreciated value at the time of the merger, lea the depreciation that has been written off since.

Q-Iseethsreissuiieminyour consolidated balance sheet of land. buildings, plant. equipment and so on based on appraisal 1ND to i027. sleimlmso. and you an only us- ing five out of nine plants? A-That is reduced by the depre- ciation item. Mr. sommerville: That is reserve? A-No it is not reserve. Mr. llsey: Your 5 per cent ls based on a lot of useless plant? A—Oh, yes. because we bought those plants. and it is e. good deal better to close e plant that is not needed than to keep operating it. Mr. Bornmervllls: But your over- head does include a large quantity oi useless plant at the present time! A—-Wel1, one useless plant. Q-And it slso covers who: op- erations of the plants that are not needed at the present time? A.-Well, that is true in every business.

Mr. Ilsey: But you think this spread between what the farmer actual) gels and whst you get in Engls d could be reduced v81‘! m!“ terlslly by s further degree of mer- get?

A-Jles, remember. I am Just speaking of it now as a purely op- erating problem. and I am not speaking of the difficulties of man- agement because management is developed by Oflfitlllbh, but if you eliminate those tors, if you do not consider them. you could pro- bably operate the pecking industry of Cansdaonsupereent oi the plants that are now open-s g.

Mr. Sommerville-And that would mean that so per cent of the over-

carry your plants, but you would not have Lhg unnecessary expenses. that are entailed to operate an un- necessary mlnher of plants.

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advance of our selling. Monday morni ,. and every morn- lng for that manor. we try to esti- mate what our outlet for beef ls

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themarketseverydayss toa conference or an agreement in rs- girdtoprice thereis ncsuchthing and never has been in Canada.

It. Factor: What about the Packers’ Council. do they discuss the price?

Ar-Never.

Q-Then didyoueversitin at a whfcrnnve. or do you know of any conference at which any of your buyers were instrllcted to pay Just g certain price and to see Swift's buyers with respect to that price?

A-Y0u see. you can ask me a lot of questions here. and it is dif- ficult for me to answer meticulous- ly. I em telling you. I am not go- ing to go behind this general state- ment; if you give me the particular thing you have in mind l will give thenirsnkest comment I can make on .

Q-Ms want to be ultra fair to you Mr. Mzalsean, we do not want iohave you misunderstood in your 528W“. or in any way misinterpret- e . A-All right. My answer is this. that there la no combination. or that there is no agreement in re- gard to buying with buyers in the packing house industry.

Q-We want to be fair with you, Mr. McLean, as I say.

A——I am more anxious than you are in this. I want lo be absolutely definite. becwee if you are seeking for s method of improving the live stock industry it does not lie along that line because there is no such thing as a combination in regard to buying.

Q-Well. you know the problem and you know the question that hss been raised?

A-Yos.

Q-And we want in fairness to you to give you every opportunity to answer it. Then, Mr. McLean. does this thing happen. that some- tlrneg there are e. grsat many llve stock on the market and that your buyers go on the market up and down the s.lleys looking at the stock and then first withdraw and don't bid?

A-It frequently happens.

Q-‘lt frequently hoppers? A-That sounu like a rather damaging thine. but that happens in regards to every buyer of every commodity. if we do not want live stock, we do not buy thtm; l! W0 want live stock we do buy them.

o FM}. Young-Alon do not buy rat-

tle ahd keep them until it is time to kill them? A—-We do mat in s way loo, but

we try to adiust our killing to our

trade. You see we have to kill in and every

“n”. mug . going to be. and we adjust our kil-

ns‘! “d u h l" ling to that. Now, we try has nesr A—N0. lt would not mean that. l! we can to nnlsn up wlt s cer- Q_4o p" “m; tsln minimum cf her-f in our cool- ers on Saturday We frequentlyl

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when you have a big ca"! 0V0! beef, you are liable to have a run of cattle

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wait until-there is nothing in- iquitous. there is nothing dishonor- able about that-when they want cattle they go after them, when they don't want cattle they don't go after them.

Q-adnd place between morning snd three o'clock in the afternoon?

A—W’hst do you mean. what

Q-From the time they don‘t want cattle to the time when they do wont cattle; they may not want them st ten o'clock and they may gm them very badly at three o'-

A-lt might happen. that would be unusual. Sometimes we one load- ed will; beef ln our coolers. snd that is what determines whether we an esgv-r buyers. or not.

Q-lt is sometimes said, for ln- Bi-Illcl. thli your buyers agree with Swift's buyers. or the buyer's for other packers, that they will only buy a certain percentage of their requirements on Monday, the open- ing day of the market? What do you say as to that?

A-f do not think that has ever occurred. That is one thing that there is no foundation for.

Q-Now, Mr. McLean, may I ssk you, is there ever any arrangement among your buyers. or among tha trade. that the hogs from a certain district shall g0 lo Swift's and that Canada Packers will get the hogs from another district; in oth- er words. that the Canada Packers will stay out of the held at certain stations. and Swift's will stsy out of the field ln othenstetlons, so that there will not be competition for the hogs?

A-Jlhere ls no arra gement whatever.

Mr. Sena: Just s moment please. Mr. Sommervillc, I have one ques- tion which might amplify that? Have you any knowledge of your buyers collaborating with Swift's buyers. or the buyers of any other packing concern. lo stay out of certain aisles in the stock market?

A-Oh no, the competition is to get into the alleys; of course they get turns; that is arranged between the commission men snd the buy- ers. So far as any arrangement be- tween the buyers goes, there is none.

The Chairman-You mean to say that the commission men invite the buyers to stay out of an alley.

A-~N0. but commission men may arrange in advance with the buyer of our firm or Swift's that we will have the first look over his alley in the morning.

Mr. Sommervllle-A commission man may give preference to Can- ada Packers or he may give prefer- ence to Swift's?

A—Yes.

Q-On the csttlc in his alley?

A—There may be an arrange- ment in advance.

Mr. Senn-I have heard a great dcsl of criticism of that practice. A.—l have heard plenty of criti- clsm of all these things. I hsve heard thounnds of times, ten thou- sand oi times, but the point is there is absolutely no basis in fact for that.

Q-You would say that it does not work to the injury of the pro- duccr?

A-JNO.

Q-Or the conslgncr?

A-I do not think there is ss competitive a buslnus in Canada

store of the Anew-Surpass Com- pany will represent tbs lest word in attrsctivcnus and shoe design. With the opening of the Char- lottetown store, the Agnew-Surpass willhavestotslofdiislmusintis great chain extending across On- tario. Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces. ‘ihs large list includes stores in the following centres; in Ontario. Bellsvflll. KER-ford (l). Brookvills. Chatbam. Coourg, Corn- wall, Dunville, Gait, Guelph. Bam- ilton (i) Ingerscil. Kinslton. Kit- chener. leamlngion. Lindsay, 14sec- well. london. Midland. North Bay. Norwich. mulls. Qhswa. Ottawa. Owen Sound, Paris, Peterhoro, Sar- nlfl. Ssult Ste. Ill-fit. Simcoc. Strat- ford. 8t. Csthcrlnes, St. Thomas. Sudbury, ‘lbrcnto (b) Wallsceburg. Welland, Windsor (I), Woodstock- ln Quebec; Montreal (2), Quebec (2), Three Rivers. In New Bruns- wick; Fredericton, Monctcn, Saint John (i). In Nova Scotia; Amherst. New Glasgow, ‘fruro, Windsor. Yar- mouth. in Prince Edward Island; Charlottetown.

The Agnew-Surpass Shoe Com- pany is by no moans an organlm- tlon of recent establishment. ‘Ihe congaany hss been doing business in Western Ontario for 50 peers, grad- ually increasing its business from year to year, and expanding its rar- ritory. During the lest few year-s. the number of shoe stores in the Agnew-Surpass chain hss contin- ued to increase until at the present time. practically every city and town in Ontario, Quebec, and the Msrltimes has a branch store, the total now being, u mentioned be-

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The remarkable growth in this en. $8117 Oflnlilflti which hss doubled its places of business during the past few years is, of course, al.- tributsble to the values which only such a large business. with its great buying power. can make possible. Agnew-Surpass shcu are made in the factories of the company, and sold direct to the wearer, thereby making possible great economics. The customer reaps the benefit in the shape o! quality footwear at

Woodiey, who has been mansgl in the King Street Store, Saint John. N. B. Mr. Woodleys experience in the shoe business qualifies hirn ta manage what will undoubtedly be one of the outstanding shoe stwes in a vary large district. We have been fortunate in securing the scr- vices of Mr. ii. J. A. Brown and Ir. Oscar Diamond, formerly on the sales staff of Goff Brothers, who will be glad to meet their old friends and customers at their new location on Saturday. March 17th.

lower prices. Business in the Agnew- Suraass Shoe Stores is conducted on a strictly cash basis, another fos- ture which eliminates expense, and which moans a still further saving for thelgncw-Surpess customer. A first-class delivery service will, of course. be available for customers oi the Charlottetown Agnew-Surpass 5M0 Bib". as in all other stores of the company. The Agnew-Surpass Shoe Stores have s central warehouse in Saint John, N. 8., from which the stock fnr the Maritime stores is distribu- ted, thus assuring quicker delivery of merchandise to these stores, While the stock cf the Agnew- Surpess Store will be entirely new, and the general policies of the com- pany's chain will be carried out in Charlottetown, as elsewhere. cus- tomers can be assured of courteous and fair treatment. A complete line of men's, women's, and children's shoes oi all kinds will be in stack st all times. These will be the product of English and Can- adian factories. And hosiery. as well will be sold, our own popular brand and other lines in ladies‘ hosiery as well as imported and Canadian rnsde socks for men. The Charlottetown store will be under the management of Mr. W. A.

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The Agnew-Surpass Shoe Stores. Limited. is one hundred per cent. Canadian organisation. More than 95 v of the Merchandise handled in

the stores is either Canadian or British make. The old Agnew lios Company was organized about fifty

years ago by John Agnew, who was s descendant of the United Bnpire loyalists. The present general man- ager of the chain ls Mr. Prank Bauslaugh, a nephew of the founder. A little over five years ago, the SWPIIA Shoo ComlJlflY. 0! Mani-rial, was amalgamated with the Agnew Corrlsany. ‘I'm: Surpass firm had been controlled by the John Ritchie Shoe Company, which carried cu I retail business under the Surpass name. The Ritchie orgauimtice was (he largest and oldest manufac- turers of medium-priced shcee for men in the Dorn‘ ‘ This company was established by John Ribdiie who came to Canada from Scotland Mr. J. E. Wsrrington. who was president of the old John ltitchis Company, is now president of thl Agnew-Surpass Shoe Stores, Lim- ited, and the Ritchie factorial are manufacturers of the slices offered by this Dominion-wide chain.

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STELLA POWER.

We shall meet but we shall miss her There will be one vacant chair.

The Angel of Death visited the home of Mr. and MII- J01‘!!! N- Power, lilllotvals. on Wednesday. March 7th. and claimed for its own their youngen daughter, Stella Frances, at the early age of nine- teen years, Just on the verge of young womanhood.

The deceased had been in perfect health up till about a week and a half previous to her death which came as e. distinct shock tc her im- mediate family, as well as to rela- tives and friends. On Thursday previous to her peelinl she was operated on for appendicitis and up to the following Tuesday was ap- parently rapidly recovering. on that day some ucfurseen complication set in, snd on the above mentioned dew, Ciod called her sway from this vale of tears before its evll lnfluencm were allowed to mar ths purity and sweetness of her young and truly Christian life.

Stella, as she was familiarly known, was s favorite with all who

failing health for six months. but in spite of all that best medical skill and tender nursing could do, she gradually failed. The deceased was a number of St. Mark's Church. Kenaington.

Ike. Mill was held in high esteem by all. Sh: will be much missed by a large circle of relatives and friends. She was very kind and hos- pitable to all, and no one needing aid ever celled upon her in vain. But while she is much missed by the many friends outside. it is in the home the loss will be felt most keen- ly. She has gone forever into that home of many mansions, and now knowing that she has thus passed forever beyond all suffering and pain, none would be so unkind as to wish her unbound spirit back into bonds again.