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Taranaki Daily News, 15 May 1920, Page 11

In one week, over 1000 immigrants passed through the prairie metropolis of Winnipeg, according to Mr. Thomas Gelley, Commissioner of Immigration. Many of them were Belgians, a few French and Dutch, and the remainder British. Manitoba and . Saskatchewan received the greater number of settlers, and British Columbia got a large proportion. "The type of these settlers is better than ever before," said Mr. Gelley. "That is because of the stricter immigration rules. They represent a good class of people and intend to buy nnd work their own land. The Belgian and French immigrants nearly all came from the devastated areas in Europe." The housing difficulty has arisen mainly owing to the high prices demanded for lumber in Canada, a country noted for its gigantic supplies of firstclass building timber, a material which is now approximately three times the price it was five years ago- /ill other essential building material is also excessively dear. One explanation is offered that Canada is exporting too much lum-. ber'to the United States and countries beyond America. Out in the West there is a. mad scamper of all sorts of people to plunge into the sliingle-making business, and old disused machinery, outwardly worth but the proverbial song, is being' grabbed at high figures. During the last few months, -several concerns with very limited capital have started in a small way and are growing rich through their enterprise, but the price of shingles has beaten all records- Buildings laths could tell a similar story, and recently they reached so high a price in British Columbia that metal lath manufacturers were selling cheaper than wood lath makers, and the price of wood laths were reduced.

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