CANADIAN MAN-POWER.

Taihape Daily Times, 17 May 1918, Page 5

CANADIAN MAN-POWER.

ARMY-HAS FIRST CLAIM. LONDON", May 4. Reuter’s correspondent 'at Ottawa states that, in-reply to a-deputation of Ontario fanners, asking" that''farmer *s sons should not' be called uji owing to the scarcity of farm labour. Sir Robert Borden, Canadian Premier, frankly declared that the war situation demanded the reinforcement of the army i -i ■ - -•-j-'fffo ihore than increased food production! “I cannot bring myself to stop.ghprt of any measure calculated to give-our soldiers all the support they desire, ’ ’ said the Prime Minister. “Me talk of hardships and sorrows, but we have no conception of what is at present going on ill France, and what it means/* • *' - ; r The Prime Miniter added that while production was essential it would be no answer to the decimated ranks that production had been slightly increased “I want to tell you,” he said in conclusion, “that if the British line part of which our men men are holding, breaks, I do not know where you will get' a market for your production I leave it at that, feeling that you are with us in the belief that the men overseas should be sustained.*’

The Times correspondent at Ottawa referring to the Canadian Government’s taxation jmoposals, says that the Opposition is of the opinion that agricultural! iimjplicirjonts should b«y placed on the free list, but so far it has not pressed this point. The western grain-growers arc strongly in favour of free agricultural implements, but do not propose to embarrass the Gov.ernment by urging this issue. They say that the first thing is to win the war. The tariff is of secondary importance.