quota | Brat
on 65 of which Mr. ‘Taylor ts President
Vancouver, en:
Payments to! tered another subscription for
On Undelivered | $500,000, making its investment
230,000,000 bushels; no |i non-tntorost bearing certifientes
processing levy of 15 | $1,000,000,
& bushel; continuance of| 11, Reports from 774 com=
teed initial payment of 7 mMittoes out of 1,857 shew that

¢; con-/Pacific Mills Ltd.

cents a bushel.

2, ze hamess all possible in-
dustrial resources to war needs,
the Dominion is being organized
into industrial zones, each with a
chairman and committee to work
in conjunction with the Depart-
ment of Munitions and Supp)
Zone committees will collect and
maintain current industrial in-
formation and on request advise
the Department.
work in the zones will be in the
hands of the Canadian
facturers Association and the!
Canadian Chamber of Commerce. |

$ Canada’s shipbuilding pro-|
gramme grows apace.
imately 20,000 men now employed
in Canadian shipyards — against
1500 when war began. A total |
of 104 keels of steel ships and 380
wooden ships laid down. Number)
of experienced men on way to
Canada from Great Britain to help
th destroyer programme.

4. POA. Willsher, chairman of
Board of Steamship Inspection,
Department of ‘Transport, ap-
pointed technical adviser,’ Ship- |
building Branch, Department of
Munitions and Supply.

$, Thirty-thousand now train-
tng in war work yocational schools. |
All training centres working at
Teast two shifts a day. ‘Some |
working three shifts, or 24 hours |
a day.

6 Tom Moore, President,
Trades and Labor Council, invited |
to become chairman of National
Employment Committee to assist
Unemployment Insurance Com:
mission in advisory capacit:

7. \F. H. Brown appointed as-
Sociate director general of the
Munitions Production Branch,
Department of Munitions and
Supply. Mr. Brown serves with-|
out remuneration. He is one of
the superintendents, head office
Canadian Bank of Commerce,|
Toronto.

Approx~

Organization [aside as D:

Manu- | tonal Da:

1,204,482 persons
themselves to make regular pur-
‘chases of War Savings Certificates
for the duration of the war,

12. John Hall Kelly, Canadian
Minister to Eire, died ‘in Dublin.
Wing Commander McNab, who led
the first fighter squadron of the
R.C.AP. in the Battle of London,
arrives in Canada,

13. March 23rd, set

y of Prayer through-
+ coinciding with Na-
0 of Prayer in United
Kingdom, “on behalf of the Nation
and Empire, theit Allies and the
cause in which they are united”

have pledged

out Canad:

‘Only 19¢ Out OF
Apple Dollar Goes

To Grower.’

of how the competitive
vorks out in agriculture
were cited by Dean F. M. Clement,
y of British Columbia, in
an address to the convention of
the B.C. Federation of Agric-

Taking a box of extra fancy

Mackintosh apples, retailing at
a box, as an illustration,
he said that on every dollar the
gets only 19 cents, the

selling B.C. Fruit-
levy eating up 25 cents,
id protection another 25
and wholesale and retail

declared the
that if you would con-
you must control

of experiment a Los
eles man consented to a “test
of intoxication”. He drank a
quart of wine, and followed this

& Contracts awarded during
the week ended February 28th by |
the Department of Munitions and |
Supply, “numbered 1,113° and|
totalled $10,355,474.

§. Cahada’s war cost for the|
financial year beginning April 1,|
Row estimated at $1,450,426,059.
This is $150,426,059 in excess of
the $1,200,000 war appropriation!

of All

Estimates

George
New’

{his

._ Rough & Dressed
LUMBER

Our Prices are Right
Our Service is Unexcelled

re Lumber Co,

jestminster 360 M-2

up by half a pint of whiskey. He
then was put through the “in-
toxication test” by meter, which
declared the man intoxicated, but
he walked the chalk line, closed
eyes and tilted his head,
picked up coins from the floor,
and performed other “test” sug-
gestions without the slightest in-
dication that he had lost any
control over himself.

Kinds

Furnished

VI & Pacific Hghwys.

‘Loos for sale.

ve rh nO U peaepeatp ste baw
howe and 80 engrossed:

in trade competition that our pat-

riotism ta only skin deop.

Following 14 the article, which
was written some Weeks ago, be-
fore the “Loase-Lend" Bill was
passed by the United States ov-
ernment;

"Guns or butter"? demanded
Goering. ‘The answer, _spon-
faneouls or not, was unanimous,
"Arms or appetizers?” is a ques-
fon before Canadians today.
"Shall we put equipment in the
hands of our troops or eat the
price of it 7

‘The United States is the only
country from which we can buy
the essentials to keep our troops
in fighting trim until our own
production overtakes our needs,
and for every bomber or bullet
that we get the conditions are
“cash and carry".

‘The dollar that we pay for table
luxuries is a dollar less with which
to buy arms
‘The United States will get the
dollar anyhow, but what do we
choose to take in exchange —
military necessities or civilian
luxuries ?

Last year we paid the United
States "$13,578,933 for fresh
fruits, a large part of them being
pre-season varieties that Canadian
gardens and orchards would later
produce at lower cost and of high-
er quality, But our’ pampered
appetites could not wait. We
had to have strawberries in
January, and before June brought
our own fruit in superabundance
we had imported $500,000 worth —
the cost of a squadron of fighter
planes.
For grapes we paid more than
$1,000,000 — for which we could
have had 200 light tanks. Apples,
peaches, pears and plums — all

ailable in finer tree-ripened
quality in our own country a few
weeks later — cost us $1,334,000
or the price of 2,500 heavy mach-
ine guns. Melons cost, us $227,000
—the equivalent of about 100 am-
bulances,

In the vegetable field, we ate
United States tomatoes, potatoes
and celery to the value of 25 big
bomber planes. We had our
dainty dinners, and Berliners
were spared the bombs! Lettuce,
cabbage, carrots and green peas
cost us another million dollars.

Citrus fruits have a high med-

powers ha

‘ttack of that city,
aig Aerie (ee
Aircon haeaizievin El
Apparently taking pletu

Many Britishers have wondered |
why the R.A.P, did not bomb more.

German cities since the Gi

have caused so much Laks in

London, ‘The situation is differs

ent in that there are military ob-

Jectives in and around London,

and while the Germans have no

doubt dropped bombs. indiscrimin=

3.20 Gallon

Direct from Factory

1.75 1-2 Gallon

Lindner Lumber Co.

Corner Keil ave. and Campbell River Road
PHONE WR241

New Westminster .

icinal value — but did we eat
$8,350,000 worth because the state
of our health demanded them, or
Just because we liked them? (This
figure does not include $590,000
worth of United States grape-
fruit juice, although at least two
very fine brands of tropic-ripen-
ed British West Indian juice are
offered in our grocery shops,

Can we live without bananas?
‘We bought $1,263,000 worth from
the United States last year. For
that money we could haye had
several minesweepers.

For dried fruits we paid the
United States $1,738,000. Let us
not forget that the finest raisins
are grown in Australia by veterans
of the last Great War.

Our resources of United States
exchange are all too limited. Le.
cannot borrow in New York as we
did before, Every dollar that goes
across the line for other than war
essentials is a dollar gone from
our fighting-power. Shall twenty
million Canadian dollars that
might buy munitions of war go
for table luxuries in the next
twelve months ?

The answer ies with Canadian
housewives,

ndberg Is “Mum”.

Col. Lindberg, while seeking a

haven in England some years
age, told Harold Nicolson, of
London, that the British were
getting soft, and now following
cach alr raid Nicolson sends Lind-
berg @ post card reminding him
of the accusation. Lindberg
doesn't answer, If the British
i were soft at the start of the war
ithey certainly ardened up"
mighty qulek, as Lindberg ond his
German friends have since found
out,

870 Interned.

‘Under section
fe Canada regulations
ie

dioner $1,00.

April 30, 1941.

21 of the Defe
ions which give

Mission City. .
Chilliwack ... 18th and 19th March
Abbotsford .. . 20th March

Langley Prairie ..
Cloverdale and White Rock .. 22nd March

Apply To Local Drill Halls
W. J. WILLIAMS, Lt.-Col., I. C. Recruiting.

Should you be comtempliting a trip Eaye, enguit
Excursion fares to all middle-west and

Recruits Wanted

Several Hundred Men are Required to Fill
‘up Calls for Reinforcements in the

CANADIAN ARMY

MAJOR R: A. PAYNE, M. C.
Will Visit the Following Towns on the Dates Show!
13th, 14th and 15th March
17th Marck

+ 2ist March

TRAVEL BY TRAIN
SEE MORE .. ENJOY MORE

in the luxury of sleeping cars or comfortable coaches.

Good meals enhance the pleasure of travel—dining on oper
ated for your convenience and to save your time- prices
are very reasonable—breakfast for as low as 505,

sit Victoria this Winter, Special winter vacat
Empress Hotel in Canada’s Evergreen Playground,

=
SE

lunch 75¢ and

in effect until