CANADIAN PRODUCE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 84, 19 January 1928, Page 5

CANADIAN PRODUCE.

BUTTER FROM AUSTRALIA. COMPETITION NOT LIKED. CFer Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) OTTAWA, January 18. The 'annual convention of the Canadian Produce Association at Montreal passed a resolution asking the Goveminent to adjust the creamery tarm to afford protection to producers, who were finding increasing difficulty in competing with imports from the -Southern Hemisphere. Mr Edward Hallman, of Toronto, said’the tariff permitted the importation of cheap butter. He made special sreferen.ee to the trade agreement with Australia and asserted that butter came •jn-to Canada from Australia, being sold at a price sometimes lower than home produce.

THE FRUIT INDUSTRY. MARKET IN AUSTRALIA SOUGHT. (Received This Dav, 9.15 a.m.) VANCOUVER, January 18. At the British Columbia. Fruitgrowers’ Convention, at Kelowna, Mr J. H. McDonald, who recently visited Australia, said that with British Columbian orchards freed from fireblight, the Australian embargo on apples would be lifted He advocated assisting Empire trade by having Australian apples durum April, May and June, instead of United States’ - fruit. He urged the sending of a trade representative to Australia to advertise British Columbian fruit.