BORDER BOUNDARY
SEVEN FOOT BARBED FENCE. (United Press Association---By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). this day at 8 a.m.) / NEW YORK, June 19. The “Herald Tribune’s” Washington correspondent states the Treasury Department is considering the erection of a*seyen-foot barbed wire fence along the Canadian border to shut out liquor runners'. The Treasury study of the oroject has reached a point which the officials are satisfied of its practicability, and have received estimates. The total cost will he ten million dollars, extending the Vhole length of the boundary with interruptions where the line runs into lakes and rivers. It will he the first artificial harrier ever erected between the United States and Canada. The plan springs from the determination of the dry forces to “ close loopholes ”’ in the international: rumrunning- blockade now maintained by a force of .a thousand men at a cost of four million dollars annually.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1929, Page 6
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144BORDER BOUNDARY Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1929, Page 6
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