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JOURNAL

May 2, 1918.

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PILOTAGE COMMISSION COMPLETES ITS WORK
It Will Probably Submit its Conclusion Without Delay.
OTTAWA, May 1-- The Royal Commission which was appointed by the Minister of Marine and Fisheries to enquire into and report upon the pilotage systems at Maritime Province and Quebec ports, has practically concluded its work in Eastern Canada, and will probably submit its conclusions without delay. The Commission was appointed following the Halifax disaster and sometime ago it reported upon pilotage conditions at that port. Since the publication of the Halifax report the commissioners, Thomas Robb (chairman), Jas. N. Bales and J. W. Harrison, have investigated pilotage conditions at Montreal, Quebec, St. John, Louisburg, Sydney and Miramachi.
After the report on the situation in eastern ports has been completed the Commission will proceed to British Columbia to investigate conditions in the ports of the western coast.
Mssrs. Thomas Robb and Jas. N. Bales will go to the coast , but Captain Harrison will not. His place will be filled by Captain Pypus, R.N.A.N., of Vancouver. It is expected that the two eastern commissioners will go west shortly.

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RECONSTRUCTION PLASTERERS TO KNOCK OFF
Some of the journeymen plasterers in the Relief Reconstruction employ knocked off work yesterday, though no demand or application to the Reconstruction authorities or Relief Commission was made. It is understaad that some of them have gone to work for city contractors on other jobs, At the Reconstruction Office nothing was known of a journeymen grievance beyond the fact that a number of them were not on their reconstruction jobs as usual.

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RAILWAY DEPOT REPAIRS.
It is reported now that the proposal to erect a temporary railway depot building at the South End terminals has been abandoned and that North Street Station building, so badly damaged by the explosion, is to be put in repair for use as a station until the war is over.

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THE PATRICIA WELL ADVANCED
Mr. H. Ruggles superintendent of the La France Fire Engine Co., at Toronto, is in the City. He has just delivered triple combination motor engines at Glace Bay and New Glasgow and says repair work on the Halifax engine Patricia is well advanced and the engine will soon be ready for delivery.

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