AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1931, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS

CANADA’S POSITION

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(Received this day at 10 p.m.) OTTAWA, January 22. Addressing the delegates of the National Council of Canadian Chamber of Commerce to-day, Premier Bennett said Canada had maturities of more than a billion dollars to meet bv 1934.

No country had greater obligations in relation to her size and population, and it must not be forgotten that there was a probability ot a deficit of one hundred million dollars this year. “We know that conditions will improve, in fact there are indications ol improvement now and psychological) conditions uro becoming better.’*

WHEAT CROP

OTTAWA, January 22

The burf-nu of statistics estimated Canada’s 1930 wheat crop as 397,872,000 bushels of which 374,500,000 was from the prairies, an increase of more than two million bushels over the figures issued in November. . NEW YORK, January 22.

Mr Rodman (.Chairman of the Produce Exchange) announced to-day that plans for the establishment in Now York of a wheat pit for trading m future deliveries of bonded Canadian wheat held at Buffalo, will be voted in in a few days by members of the Exchange.

JACK DEMPSEY IN HOSPITAL. NEW YORK, January 22. Jack Dempsey entered Polyclinic Hospital to-day for treatment of an infection of his left hand. A growth out (.if a small cut on the fourth linger, developed nf.er a gymnas’um work out on Monday. The hand has swollen twice its normal size and the infection is spreading to his arm.