Apart from these salient features there: were a number 6t other: points in the budget address which were. of Interest to the consumer, Mr. Dunning announced that there would bet large number of changes inthe customs tari designed to. stimulate trade and. also to be the means of Towering the prices of many' different Article. Oulslanding "among. these thanges_was the vesarrangement of the customs and excise taxes In such away a8 to lower the prices of small motor ears to the consumer, "A new Fegtlation. was "put into. force which tourists. "travelling abroad Might bring into the country $100 worth of foods" for" personal uso. provided that. they are absent. from The country at lerist 48. hours, and {hat the exemption is. granted' only once every four months, "A regula: tion similar {o this had applied to the ited States only up to the present.
'Comment on' the budget has been varied, "in the main it has received very lite strong. criticism "so. far. There tso rather general_fecling. however, thal not enough effort has Been made to balance Teventie and expenditure by means of stringent Foduetions in government cos 'There is ati room for too. much Tenteage through patronage ana other means. Then, too, the attempt to improve' the sialur of the Canadian National Tailway has boon somewhat half-hearted, In this connection itis important to note that Mir, Bennett hav offered. his ce-operation to. the Government if they will make. some Sroposais that will put the CANA. on Rstronger footing. This has been interpreted to mean that a new plan for unification of the two Canadian Faitroads: would be welcomed Reduction in Ralt Far connection with the railway situation it has been. nounced that there will bea substantial reduction fares of dine 1, Basic farce for stcclass travel Wil be cut ape proximately thirteen per cent, which {will bring them to te level existing Canada before the Great. War.
Duy coach tickets which are Issued at ive new rates will also be 008 {oe postage in Tourlat sleeping ears, here these ae operated, on payment of the. regular berth Yates for. this lass of accommodation. There ill be substantial extension inthe Length time allosed in round trip tickets: the present limit of 30 days. will Increased to six months.
Under. the now fare basis_week-fenders who. travel_in_ coaches" will, Tenetit, "greatly. Week-end tickets food for the "round tip. will be: {vallable at one' and one-quarter the fast of coach fares for the single inp, which Works out. to- less" than
Sleeping trid parlour ear rates ents erie also be substantially reduced, All of these changes will prove, itis hoped. Sh additional stimulus to rail travel. tail transportation in this country has improved in_speed and comfort ery. greatly. in the past ten years despite the stringent economic cunditions and the railways are eager igh Quality of Production had no hope when I came across here that T would find such a high quality of production as you have shown mo." Mr. Granville-Barker said, "I am sure that you have in Canada the making of a Canadian, drama." He felt that the awakening appeared to be all-embracing, and was not confined within bounds any kind, The fact that interested, Intelligent audiences had crowded the Ottawa Festival, and that the presentations of the final night included in their audience both the Governor-General and the Prime Minister of Canada, augured well for Permanence and success.
Premier King, in a few remarks fom the stage before the final gh adjudication was made, said that, he looked forward to the day when there would be a national theatre in Canada, He thought that the humorous presentations during the Festival dealing with sedat problems Indicated that people were thinking seriously about solutions of these problems, and he gave it as his opinion that it was in this way that solutions are found, Mr, King added that when the Government felt that. public opinion had reached the point Wwhere it strongly favoured the consteuetion of a building to house a national theatre, the accommodation would be provided.
Visit of Japanese Christian The visit to Canada of Dr. Toyohiko. Kagawa, Japanese Christian loader and tireless social worker, has been marked by great Interest in Pro. stant church circles, His days and evenings have been occupied with meetings and wherever he has gone has been listened to attentively. Despite the fact that his mastery of the English tongue is by no means complete, Dr. Kagawa speaks with power and his audiences soon feel the force of the man who has given hig life richly In the effort to bring the Kingdom of God to earth in his homeland of Japan.
Wherever he addresses church audiences Dr. Kagawa pays tribute to the missionaries that have been sent to Japan by Western lands, and Teaves little doubt in the minds of hig hearers that the task of the missionary from abroad is by no means finished. At the same time, without laying any emphasis himself, Dr. Kagawa is acting as one of the new school of missionaries, the Fepresentatives of the Church of Christ in Eastern lands who are ro-discovering some of the finest elements the application of the teachings of Jesus, and are interpreting their findianity.
loyal to his own country, Dr. Kaleawa does not hesitate to point out that he differs with it in its relations with China, He gives it as his view that more than 80 per cent. of the Japanese people want peace, and that the policy of continual aggression Is sued by one group only. that the council of the Christian churches in Japan had def-
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