Report of the Select Committee on the State of the Coal Trade, and for the Promoting of Inter-Provincial Trade - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... so in some districts. Q. Do you export many articles from the Province of Nova Scotia to the West Indies?--Principally fish. Q. Do you got return cargoes?--We got sugar and molasses, but we send them chiefly to the United States. Q. They are only partial ones?--Yes. sugar was refinod in this country there would bo return cargoes of the raw material?--Yes. Q. Sufficient to engago all the shipping yourselves?--Yes, and more than sufficient. Q. Can you say if American flour could be shipped in bond?--Yes, it could. There is another important trade which I think tho Province of Nova Scotia might have with Canada, and that is fresh fish. Thero is a company being formod in Halifax with $600,000 capital to prosecute deep soa fishing and send tho fish all over the Dominion packed in ice. By Mr. Dymond. Q. Is that the 'first effort of the kind that has been made?--Yes, so far as I know. Q. Hitherto you have proceedod in rather a slow and old fashioned method?--I think wo keep up with all the improvements in fishing. Q. Your object in combining is to bring together a large amount of capital, use improved vessels and other appliances?--Yes. Q. You would send the fish over the Intercolonial Itaihvay?--Yes. Q. Then wo would have some freights oven without coal in return for oor produce?--Yes; but if you had coal the trade would be very much larger. Q. Are you prepared to adopt a retaliatory tariff with the United States?--Yes. Q. You would be prepared to put a duty of $1.20 to $1.25 on flour?--Yes; I believe it would be in the interests of the Dominion to have tho same tariff as the United States. By Mr. Goudge:--Q. What would the people of tho western portion of Nova Scotia think of that?--J Well, the numbor is so small I don't think it would make much...

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