James Gardiner, Canadian Minister of Agriculture, who was the first Canadian Cabinet member to visit Israel, has returned greatly impressed with the achievements of the Jewish State.
Mr. Gardiner said today that he met many former Canadians who are now members of kibbutzim and found them uniformly happy. He also revealed that during his visit, he told Israeli Agriculture Minister Peretz Naphtali that his own first position as a teacher was at the Hirsch Colony–named after Baron de Hirsch–Saskatchewan, where he taught Jewish immigrants how to cope with the Canadian prairie.
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