Canada Is A Pacific Nation
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THE Canadian Minister for National Defence, Mr. Brooke Clayton, wno was visiting New Zealand, in Sep tember, said that Canada regards herself as a Pacific nation. Five hundred miles of Canada’s coastline border the Pacific Ocean and the city of Vancouver has a population of 700,000.
He said that Canada shared with the United States the longest frontier in the world, but the war had shown that they
had another frontier—across the north country lay the shortest air routes to the great land masses of the world. The war had shown also, that Canada could pro duce goods in unlimited quantity—but they must be exchanged, and this could not be done by setting up iron curtains and barriers of any sort.
A Noumea business man has been buy ing up sandalwood supplies in the Loyalty Islands. 'The quality is said to be good.