The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-11-05
issued: 1913-10-28
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note: EIGHT PAGES 56 CENTS A MONTH mi CLASSIFIED ADS 1 CENT A WORD VOL. 12 NELSON. B. G. TUESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 28, 1913 NO. 167 Maritime Province's De- : mands Opposed by West, PREMIER M'BRIDE GUEST OF HONOR Naval Aid First Step in Wider Scheme of Imperial Federation, (By Daily News Leased Wire.) OTTAWA, On!., Oct. 27.~-The first two sittings of tlie inter-provincial conference, whicli convened at 11:410 this morning -in the railway commission room, were taken tip aImoBt entirely with tho consideration of the demands of the maritime1 provinces \n respect to representation iu the Dominion parliament. Tiie request was introduced by Premier Flemmlng ol New BruiiBWick and seconded by Premier Mathifison of Prince Edward Island, and other delegates from the maritime provinces. Then the -delegates from the other provinces were heard from. That the conference was not united on the subject was made evident by the fnct that the discussion was adjourned without any recommendation to the Dominion government being agreed to. The delegates then took up the Question fls tp the most likely agreetnent to be reached. This was a general increase in subsidies for all the provinces. When tho conference adjourned at fi:30 this evening tbe matter was still under discussion, hut no resolution had been decided upon. It was agreed that the committee on resoln- tions would meet in the evening to put the proposals of the provinces in concrete form. At, the present time the provinces receive by way of annual subsidies over no.-'f'O.OOO, divided as follows: Ontario, $2,30^20; Quebec $1^7,1,724-; Nova Scotia, JliUli.tiTS; New Bmin> wlck, $(J37,r>75; Manitoba, ?8:j.'!,(i4'.»; British Columbia, $71.'t,710; Prince Kd- ward Island, $281,031; Alberta, $l»2fl6-' 722. and Saskatchewan, $1,648,180. Sliding Scale. Just what it Is proposed to ask on this occasion has not as yet been revealed, but a resolution similar to that passed at the conference in lfnid will probably be adopted. It provided for a sliding…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0385218
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
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