Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 10, 1929, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba free press Winnipeg saturday August 10, 1929. Says few than Ideal not practicable however As each item must be considered by itself sees development of Empire Trade by process of Edu growing Canadian Tress despatch Quebec aug. D. Empire i Reo Trade is an Ideal but is quite impracticable in the opinion of it Hon. L. C. M. S. . Former Secretary for the do minions who arrived Here on the . Empress of Australia today. Amery is enjoying his second visit to Canada in eighteen months and is proceeding West to the Rockies. On the same ship col. Amery was it. Hon. Winston Churchill former Chan cellar of the exchequer. Absolutely in favor of closer com Mercial relations among the constituent parts of the British Empire. Col. Amery nevertheless Felt that a slogan of free Trade would not accomplish its purpose desired. In the old country for lie said we could no tax wheat in order to give Canada a preference on that product. And it is conceivable that Canada in various ways might not find it convenient to reduce Taxa Tion on a purely British product. This la a question in which each commodity must be considered by itself. Prefer ence could be arranged for Canadian wheat perhaps by subsidy or by de creased freight rates butt they could not be of a. Nature that would increase to britons the Cost of col Amery did not wish to criticise the present Campaign of lord cover Brook for free Trade within the Empire but thought that this allem bracing slogan More or less reflected something which although perhaps highly desirable. Was nevertheless merely the expression of a process of education at the moment our activities Are very largely centred on the operations of the Empire marketing Board. We have been very Active in inculcating in the minds of people in the old country the desirability of buying within Tho Empire. It is a process of education. If half a dozen people Asl their grocer or retailer for Empire goods you find that merchant beginning to think and to ask his wholesaler for Empire goods. By progression you find the wholesaler trying to meet the de Mand and in this Way you ensure a building up of an Emp ire Trade which must redound to the Good of the Empire As a whole. More and More the people in great Britain Are coming to see the tremendous possibilities of Empire Trade and they Are concentrating upon its misgiving As to Egypt col. Amery looked with some mis giving on the policy of the present government with respect to Egypt. While he did not wish to criticise the government he nevertheless Felt that in granting what amounted to absolute Independence to Egypt a great Deal of the Good work already done was being undone. With regard to increasing the in vestments of britishers in Canada col. Amery thought that indications were Bot absent of a renewed interest in this country by British financiers. News in today s advertisements from the classified columns several shooting lodges on Lake Winnipeg Are for tenders for travelling roads., in municipality or Edward Are called late Model Packard Sedan is for Sale and will take Small car in in it. Peterborough Canvas Canoe is for and Marine several Good Oil leases in Al Berta Are for in double garage on Assini Maolne Avenue is for three room up to Date Bunga Low apartments with Flower Gar Dens Are for yesterday hottest this. Gentleman gets lots of kick out of life they give me be Rajca we the motor Road to the Pas Highway an Cross Buom u m Etc while intoxicated l. Lavesseur 43, Groux Man crashed the car he was driving into another parked on Des Jun reins Street. St. Boniface at .10.20 to clock their Day evening. Before magistrate Leclert yesterday he was sled so. Mercury reaches 98 Only two degrees less than highest Ever recorded heat records for the season in Winnipeg were shattered yesterday when the Mercury soared to 98. It was the hottest Day on record for the month of August so far As the City is concerned and was Only two degrees below the highest temperature Ever recorded in Winnipeg 100.5. June 23, 1900, was the scorcher of a Clay on which the Century Mark was reached. The records show that on Only one occasion has yesterday s temperature of 98 been registered Here by the meteorological Powers that be. This was july 31, 1826. For the second Day in succession. Winnipeg captured the heat honors for not Only the West but she whole Dominion that is so far As the More important centres of population arc concerned. Some of the smaller towns May proudly claim to have endured an even More sizzling Day. Emerson for instance said it had gone one better thursday. Brandon man., was the Only other City reported to have gone Over the 90 Mark yesterday. In the wheat City the thermometer went to 91. In the Western and Eastern provinces tha weather was just moderately warm. Willie Winnipeg May still be very much in Tho Sun. Today cooler weather is forecast for districts to the South. Mystery of blast aboard air plane Carrier solved special United news despatch to free press by free press private wire san Retro calif., aug. 9. The mystery of a blast aboard the air plane Carrier Saratoga in the Harbor Here was solved today when the body of David Zoner 24, third class electrician was brought ashore. The explosion occurred wednesday when two Power lines carrying 480 and volts respectively became crossed. Fatal polish floods. Lemberg Poland aug. Tial rainfall with resulting floods have drowned six children and several herds of cattle and have submerged Many villages and towns. The govern ment has sent Relief expeditions into the stricken District. My -Taxe-5 get any higher i la m our Xeno. To Good. No. Lake to no. 1 near rough in places. Rough. In spots. Rapid City to rapid City rapid. City to North Road to mor Den under construction take South Road. J although lie Only ran Over a dog j Edmond. Bredette Learned to the City police court yesterday where he paid a Fine of that an Accident la no matter what it must be reported to the police. Tie Fine was for falling to report the mishap. Three speeders were assessed and costs apiece. They were r. Willett. E. Albin and j. P. Thomas. Thomas passed 30 automobiles on main Street one Day last week at a Speed or 42 mites an hour. Blind in Alberta More than 450 Blind persons in Al have been brought into communication with the Canadian Nat ional Institute of the Blind of which miss Geraldine Leatham Edmonton is provincial Secretary. Miss Leatham is in charge of arrangements for Home teachers of braille and Craft Relief employment the lending of braille books through the Library in Toronto and the Sale of articles made by the Blind of the province. By h. Gray so if auction Sale of household furniture 3 Case Etc. It Cray s auction Mart m0 s3uth st., of saturday August i Winnipeg s consumption of All meats in Dominion for 1928 is 156 Pound per capita ;