TRADE WITH CANADA.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 124, 28 May 1929, Page 7

TRADE WITH CANADA.

Advantages Of Australian Agreement. COMMONWEALTH BENEFITS. (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) VANCOUVER, May 27. Mr. R. A. Haynes, Australian commercial representative, addressing the Canadian Club on Monday, said: "Bald figures of the totals of Australian trade with Canada do not disclose what underlies them. One item, sugar, makes all the difference in the world to the trade we have done with you. Take this item out of the total and we find that under the trade agreement Australia started trade under the new conditions with a total of £22,000 worth of goods being sold in Canada annually. "Under the agreement and in the third year of the agreement these items reached an aggregate of £50,000. In the current year there will be a further increase in meat, canned fruits, gelatine and other items. "Thanks to the agreement Australia has captured the market for currants and is gradually establishing a trade in sultanas. Already this season Canada has bought twice as much as she bought in 1927. Frost in California has given us an opportunity of selling canned peaches. "You will find them unexcelled in the world. In 1909 the total sales of Australian produce to Canada amounted to £200,000. Last year it was £1,160,000. That, however, was only sufficient to place Australia on a parity with Switzerland. "Your sales to Australia have received a setback recently, but are double what they were 20 years ago. They can be increased by proper merchandising." Referring to the contentious point of the sale of Australian butter in Canada, the speaker eaid: "Can I make it clear that Australia does not want to injure Canadian dairying or any other industry? If your costs arc increased by local conditions it is not for me to make suggestions, o. iy I mus t feel disappointed that something which do°s not affect our selling prices to you in any degree, precludes our selling you more than 216 tons of butter in a Year, S\ y ° U , r , total ""Potations exceed 6000 tons."