BIG CANADIAN PROJECT.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1926, Page 2

BIG CANADIAN PROJECT.

WASHINGTON, April 7. Tho United States Commerme'Department lias been advised that a Canadian Land Company lias been founded in Berlin for the purchase, sale and leasing of land in Canada. It is reported that the fonmlei's will be given the option of twenty-live thousand acres of land in Saskatchewan Province, suitable for wheat cultivation, which has been, acquired from the Canadian-Pacific HaiUvay for division into farms, and sold chielly to German immigrants. Ml UTAH Y PRESENTATION. OTTAWA, April 9. Two hundred officers of the Canadian Forces who .served under General Byng in the Great War gave tangible expressions of affection for their former leader, tho Governor-General of Canada and Commander of the Canadian Overseas in 191(1-17, and Lady Byng, of Yiiny Nidge, at a dinner at Government House to-night.

They made a presentation in the form of a seven-passenger seventy-five horsepower Canadian made Limousine car to Lord Byng, and an oil portrait of His Excellency to Lady Byng. Tho presentation was made on liehaJT of flic officers by Sir Arthur Currie, the President oi .McGill l niverxitv. Montreal. who succeeded General Xlyng as Commander 'if the Corps. The dinner was one of the most memorable functions ever held at Government House. It was the ninth anniversary of the capture of Yim; Ridge by tho Canadians.