NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 267, 10 November 1928, Page 22

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

POSITION IN CANADA. TRADE TREATY DISCUSSED.' (From Our Own Correspondent.) • VANCOUVER, October 10. The dairy interests of Ontario and Quebec provinces of Canada arc still chafing under the severe competition waged by New Zealand butter manufacturers owing ■to the continued arrivals of large quantities of butter from "down under," and arguments are. still being advanced to withdraw the conditions of the trade treaty in force between Canada and New Zealand as regards importations of daiiy produce. Some of the Dominion newspapers are inclined to support the importation "of New Zealand butter and the "Manitoba Free Press" of Winnipeg in a recent issue had the . following comment on the subject:'—"ln tho election of 192 C and at various times since that < date, the Canadian-Australian treaty has been attacked, by the Conservative party .in Canada on the ground that it was extending privileges and benefits to -,'ertain Canadian manufacturing industries at the expense of the Canadian butter producer. ... In view of the fact that wo are not making enough butter to supply our own market, and will have to import 15,000,000 or 20,000,000 pounds this year - , it will be difficult to convince tho Canadian people that the Australian and New Zealand treaties have put the Canadian butter producer out of business." Tho subject was touched upon in Winnipeg in a speech delivered by Hon. R. B. Bennett, leader ofr the Conservative opposition party of Canada, when he dealt in great detail with the exports and imports of Canada, especially those from the United States, and the development of the Dominion's resources, and he declared the remedy for tho problems of to-day was "equal opportunity and fair compent'tion." , "That is what you ask in your individual lives. What you are asking, I ask for Canada, I ask equal opportunity and fair competition. Fair competition against New Zealand butter; fair competition against the United States. I ask nothing more—nothing less. Give us equal' opportunity and we will beat the world, as we always have," said Mr. Bennett, Canada's former Minister of Justice. In butter, lie asserted, there is unfair competition, just as there was in fruit, vegetables, implements and steel. The United States provides fair competition for its industries, and other countries are doing the same, he said. He objected to produce from other countries being brought into Canada when that same produce could be manufactured in the Dominion by Canadians.