The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-11-08
issued: 1914-02-07
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note: <& WEATHER FORECAST * All. west fair and decidedly <$> coW <8> THE DAILY NEWS <§■ It read everywhere in South* <3» eastern British Columbia (Koot- '*■ enay and Boundary District) *£> on the day of publication. t3i VOL. 12 8 PAGES. NELSON. B. C. SATURDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 7, 1914 AT i War Office Always Adopting Fads, Says Minister I CRITICISM OF LABOR DEPARTMENT Nanaimo Strike Subject of Acrimonious Debate in Commons. (By Dally News Leased Wire.) OTTAWA, Teh; fl,—Two questions engaged the attention 0f the commons to tbe exclusion oi! other topics throughout a long slUIng—the dispute with.the National Rifle association of Great Britain over the Ross rifle and the Nanaimo strike. The first mentioned was soon disposed of. but the latter went on for hour after hour. ! B. M. Macdonald Introduced the Ross rifle discussion hi a brief speech, in which he expressed the hope that the minister of militia would adhere to his determination not to send a team to Great Britain until the war office ruling against aperture sights Is withdrawn. Hon. Sam Hughes in emphatic language said that be did not propose to do so. The new regulations, he said, were aimed at the Canadian arm because it was a superior weauon, the Lee-Enfield rifle being obsolete, The minister said that the war office was always adopting fads and the new figure targets was one of them. Major Sam Sharpe mildly criticized the minister for his proposed action, while F. B. Carvell strongly approved. He-said that the minister had been too magnanimous In o.-erlng to supply the British marksmen with the Ross rifle. < The Nanaimo strike trouble was brought up when the estimates for the department of labor came up. F. B. Carvell led off the opposition attack on the minister, charging him wlthiincompetence and neglect in dealing with this matter. He said that the report made by Commissioner Price was cut off the day the rioting commenced; that the situation waa glossed over In the Labor Gazette, and the minister, the Labor Ga…
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: 10.14288/1.0385645
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.
type: Text