LUMBER AND BUTTER

Auckland Star, Issue 38, 14 February 1929, Page 7

LUMBER AND BUTTER

Canada's Disadvantages Under Australian Treaty. SHUT OUT BY U.S. SUBSIDY. (Australian and X.Z. Tress Association.) (Received 10 a.m.) VANCOUVER, February 13. Officials of the National Dairy Council met representatives of the Lumber Manufacturers' Association on "Wednesday to discuss ways and means of securing relief from the Federal Government. Their hardships were said to be the direct results of the Australian treaty. Mr. Aird Flavclle, for the lumbermen, said that Australia {rave California preference over British Columbia cedar, and that the United States subsidised freight boats by means <if mail contracts so that United States shippers practically sliut out t lie British Columbia manufacturers from t lie Australian ma rket. Mi". Flavclle suggested that the Canadian Government should give a subsidy of 1/ per 100 superficial board feet of lumber shipped to Australia and that the Commonwealth should be asked to put Canada on an equality with California in tlie matter of tariff. Mr. J. A. f aulder. for the dairymen, said that dairy interests were" not opposed to the treaty in principle but it worked out to their disadvantage. The conference had revealed that the dairymen thought the Canadian tariff should be raised to seven cents per ib with a three cent preference for Australia. A further conference is bcin<; held with representatives of the pulp pape.and fishing interests in ,ui attempt to pave the way for a lion-political review of the trade relations between the two countries.