CANADA’S JUBILEE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 7, 30 March 1927, Page 1

CANADA’S JUBILEE

WILL N.Z. BE THERE? COMMISSIONER ANXIOUS TWENTY YEARS’ WONDER Whether New Zealand will be represented or not at the Canadian Jubilee at Ottawa in July is a matter of considerable interest to the Canadian Trade Commissioner at Auckland (Mr. Croft). This will be one of the matters he will discuss with the Prime Minister (Mr. Coates) during a visit to Wellington later in the week. The Prince of Wales will be present to unveil tlie Victory Tower, says Mr. Croft, and Mr. Baldwin, British Prime Minister, has also accepted an invitation. It seems practically certain that King George will not make the trip, though he will sit in London and hear the first peal from the carillon of 53 bells. ' OPENING MEMORIAL TOWER The tower, he declares, is in every respect a national monument to those Canadians who fell in the war. It is the dominant feature of the new Federal Houses of Parliament, in which, incidentally, is a room panelled in New Zealand woods. Canada, some time ago returned the

compliment by panelling a room in the Mew Zealand Parliamentary buildings. It is not overstepping the mark to say that Canada’s advance in the last 25 years, says the commissioner, is one * of the features of the world’s economic progress. In 20 years, more new land has been taken up in farms than had been so occupied in the whole period of nearly three centuries prior to 1900. Wheat- farming has not monopolised recent growth. Mr. Croft points out. for dairying is a huge and progressive rival. Ranching, stock-farming and fruit-farming, ail contribute to the prosperity of the sister Dominion. Tobacco culture and fur-farming typify fields of solid progress and great promise. From rock to rock,

never ceasing in its wanderings, goes the silver fox. but one of the sources of Canadian wealth from skins. Since the early Hudson Bay trapping days Canadian furs have been famous the world over.