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Directors of the United Farmers of Alberta demanded that the Dominion Government halt Exchange trading in coarse grains, put all buying through the Canadian Wheat Board (which now buys virtually all wheat). In Saskatchewan, Agriculture Minister James Gardiner said: "I am sympathetic to the idea." He was confident that if there were abuses in Exchange trading, the Government would ask Parliament for authority to do what U.F.A. asked...
...Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia, tree dealers were busy in the woodlands. Last year, the Dominion sent 7,143,525 firs and Scotch pines across the border, valued at $1,839,000. This year, the take may exceed...
...villages and villages which resemble rained-out brush fires. Huge, forlorn concentrations of Sikhs and Hindus labored forward to leave the West Punjab forever. On one day last week, columns No. 8 and 9 moved across the famous Balloki headworks between Amritsar and Lahore and passed into the Indian Dominion; not far behind, foot columns No. 10, 11 and 12 lumbered steadfastly eastward. Carefully feeling its way around Amritsar, a foot convoy of perhaps 100,000 Moslems made towards Lahore and Jinnah's Promised Land, at a rate of ten miles...
...Governments hope to finish it off by mid-November. From the East Punjab into Pakistan, 2,550,000 Moslems have crossed, leaving 2,400,000 still to be evacuated; 2,275,000 Sikhs and Hindus have crossed from the West Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province into their Dominion, leaving 1,800,000, chiefly in isolated pockets, still to come. It is one of the great exchanges of population in recorded history...
...fifth of the population of Halifax war doubled up or living in attics or basements. All last week the Dominion awaited a wondrous new housing plan which Reconstruction Minister C. D. Howe was to unveil. When he spoke, in Vancouver, the best he could do was to promise 6,000 more homes-a year from...