The Guardian (And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times.) WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7th, 1923 CANADA REVISITED.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1923, Page 2

The Guardian (And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times.) WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7th, 1923 CANADA REVISITED.

JiiivisiTiNc his birthplace alter an ab'ciii i' ol neatly ten years, Captain Kilis, Director of tlie Forest Sendee ■saw many changes, mainly for the better. Canada was. he said, emerging rapidly from the period of depression slm. in (cnimon villi other countries, expel ieiiecd. This was illustiatcd by the number of railways and public buildings now iii.ilcimiing construction. 'Hie depression was attended by a .succession of crop lailiiros, which have m.w happily gitcii way to a record harvest. running to nearly WO million bushels. Among many outstanding iiulustiial developments, he said, was the lapid growth of the pa] vr-pidp iildusliy. Till re n;is ;i great -eranihlc aiming wealthy American linns to secure valuable com cs-imis and waterpower. The Duke Tiibiu-.'ii linn associated with the Quebec paper magnate. Sir William Price, had aef|uired the Cirand Discharge Falls, on the Chieontomi River. The power development, which would Oust about 39 in l ll ll >ii dollars would he Used partly tor the purpose ill generating steam and the balance would be utilised in supplying power to Kasteni t'nile.l State-, a distance of 100 miles. The (nice would he a small fraction cl a eenl per unit. "In my opinion.'' said Captain Kilis. "at llie present rale ol development, the timber resources of Eastern Canada, will he exhausted in twenty years. In my time they would not cut anything below twelxe inche- in diameter: now they will cut down to the merest saplings. Canada has been I'uilunatc this year in being able to secure many thousand of sturdy Englisli and Scottish workers lor the halve,!. They are some of the fines! types I have ever seen- the type that would ho a great asset In New Zealand, ii we could get tium. The price <d '.lnure is dow n to a mere nothing iiov, find the shipping oimp.mies Mini the railways am co-opera ling in getting them. During the last lew years there has been a severe drain through migration to the industrial centres of the United States, where plasterers and bricklayers were getting' us high as 35 dollars a day. In iael. so serious lms Urn Jnoveinont affected Quebec that steps have umv been taken by certain patriotic institutions to attract them to ret urn by the idler of land. Anothei outstanding feature which indicates the high standard of living, is the enormous increase in the number of motorears. The most intimate use is now heing made of the motor-car from I lie Itiiubi'i'-jaek ill the woods to the schoolhoy in the cities. This is due to the fact that surplus earnings, which hitherto went in ‘booze.’ are now being diverted for the purchase of autos., which can l.e picked up on ridiculously easy terms. The juice of gasoline and petlol too, has fallen so low as to lnak* the cost of operating ears very cheap The progress of Canada, is many-sided, lull in no direction is its advance so marked as in the success that has attended public ownership of the railways. The Canadian National Railways, which operate 20.1)00 miles of railways, have become a great popular and commercial success under the leadership of Sir Henry Thornton, the chairman of the hoard of directors The tendency in Canada nowadays is to adopt the New Zealand policy of stabilisation and Government control in butter and other food products. There is in process, under provincial effort, in Western Canada, a system of wheat pool, under the guidance of .Mr Shapiro, the well-known eo-opera-tionist of the United States. There is more or less virtual supervision in the province of Quebec, which lias been moie successful in the consistent production of butter and cheese than the other province* of the Dominion. Ciini'da must come to some means of establishing uniformity in handling and marketing dairy produce, for the quality of their butter steadily shows the lack of Government regulation and control.”