AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1929, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS.

TARIFF THREATS. RESULTS IN OTTAWA. (Per Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). OTTAWA, July 3. President Hoover’s tariff threats aro producing results in Ottawa'. It is known that Government experts are making a very careful study of the situation under quite definite instructions. When Congress signs the new tariff measure, the Premier will be ready to. tell Canada of the plan to meet the situation. While no details are obtainable, it is creditably stated that steps to .be taken will bo more adequate than the Conservatives expect, and action is not likely to be confined to British preference.

BARBED Wlu-E FENCE. A DENIAL. WASHINGTON, July 3. Mr Mellon, Secretary to the U.S.A. Treasury, on Tuesday denied the published reports that the Treasury was considering the erection of a sevenfoot barbed wire fence along the Canadian border to stop the rum-runners. JLixese reports, which had caused conoern in London, he said, had never been .mentioned in any way in the Treasury.

WHEAT SUPPLIES. (Received this day at 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 3. The Agriculture Department has announced a nation-wide programme, in which wheatgrowers will he urged to increase the facilities for storing grain on farms, and distribute marketing throughout the season in order to prevent over-supply and secure a premium for high protein content. The Department said that recent/ surveys had shown a larger proportion of the crop each year is being marketed during the early months of the new crop and as a result the facilites of elevators and railroads were taxed to the limit, and it became physically impossible to handle the. Wheat according to the protein content. It is said storage for grain will make possible a system oif more orderly ’ marketing, reduce car shortages and embargoes, lessen the hired help needed and have numerous other advantages to farmers. The Department launched The movement at a time when there was a great carry-over from the previous crop and the prospects of a bumper yield this year. TJ successful, the movement .will hold the grain on farms, and is expected to. aid in preventing market -gluts, causing price declines.