ALL=OUT EFFORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1942, Page 4

ALL=OUT EFFORT

CANADA’S WAR CONTRIBUTION. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PRODUCTION. OTTAWA, April 9. In industry and on land Canada is making an all out effort for war. The Bureau of Statistics index or the physical volume of business for the first wo months of 1942 stood at 137.5, representing a gain of 7.2 per cent over he same months a year ago. Nearly 503,000 tons of steel ingots ;ere turned out during January and February, an advance of 25 per cent over the high level of 1941. The cor-.-esnonding gain in the pig iron output was no less than 41.2 per cent. In January and February exports were over 69 per cent more than the figure [or the same months of 1941. The corresponding percentage gain for imports was 39.2 per cent. While war production steadily m.reases, additional regulations conserve essential supplies. By instructions from the Oil Controller 165 owners of commercial industi ial heating and steam plants in British Columbia today were ordered to switch from oil to coal. The instruction, it is estimated, will save 35,000,000 gallons of, oil a year for the Navy, for locomotives operating through the Rockies, and for essential war industries on'the Pacific Coast. To conserve essential materials 300 additional commodities have been placed under the Export Control Regulations. To ensure maintenance of essential communications telephone services are placed under stringent priority rating. From the farmer the 1942 programme demands more hogs, milk, beef, wool, eggs, fats and oils. A three-point appeal to the Prairie Provinces by the Department of Agriculture calls for: (1) Production. of wheat to be limited to what can be sold in domestic and export markets during the crop year 1942-43; (2) unlimited production of coarse grains for livestock feeding to produce (a) animal products fats needed in the domestic market, (b) bacon, dairy products and eggs for Britain; (3) greatly increased production of flax seed to meet the vegetable oil needs of Canada and the United States. Deliveries of wheat from Western Canada have been authorised at 280,000,000 bushels compared with 230,000,000 bushels authorised from all Canada last year. The expected carryover of 400,000,000 bushels at July 31, 1942, it is felt will constitute an adequate war reserve. The initial price of wheat for deliveries in 1942-43 under authorised quotas will be 90 cents a bushel on the basis of No. I Northern in store at Fort William or Vancouver. This represents a 20 cents increase over the previous initial price. The minimum prices established for barley and oats are with unlimited production. For flax seed the fixed price established is also ,with unlimited production. The programme contemplates that two dollars an acre will be paid on land taken out of wheat and either summer fallowed or seeded to barley, oats, flax, rye, peas, corn, clover, grasses or millet.