TRADE WITH CANADA.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1318, 22 December 1911, Page 8

TRADE WITH CANADA.

V;'-'■ VANCOUVER JtHRCHANT'S VIEWS. I, A Vancouver business man, Mr. J. ;;■! Fyfe Smith', who .-is iat present in Svdiicv, I. -'referred, in conversation with it' Sydney' \; "Herald" reporter,' •. to the handicap.' >;■: which has been '. placed .. on.Australian >■ trade with Canada owing to tho fact that ', Now Zealand now lus first call'.on the !, refrigerating space in flio mail steamers, '»>■ arid _ enjoys a tariff advantage over Aus- (•-. tralia.of- a halfpenny per lb. on both r meat and butter under, a? reciprocal a"reo- ;. ment. _ • ■ : o "'{ his ,, alr:ln ° en!ent is going to rob Now ■'-~.. fcouth Wales and. Queensland' of butter ; ..trade to, the extent of 'JO.fIOO boxes- this ;-.: fceason," lie said, "and you: arc'-"also go- '■• lug to lose your meat trad? unless, things i; are altered." Chatting ■-os'-lo' tho pesI stbihty of developingtrude in other lines, !. he said, that (hero was a treimindous amount oi business to bo- done- in supplying Canada with frozen poultrv.'""'lf poultry fnniisrs would only iivo tho ;■ necessary attention arid .go in for'proper •: feeding, grading, and packing, tbev could ' nnito easily place .£loo,ooo.worth"of'.'uo'ul- ; , try ou that market every year. '"Ar. pre- , fcut. the western provinces of Canada , tamed their supplies "from the. citstem provinces nnd from Kausiis. but prices ■■:• .were advancing:, the supply not bain" =n pjcntiiul as it was. last year, on. account •. of ..disease among tho turkeys in Ontario ',- Jiavmg decimated tho -flocks. Choice ' poultry would at tho proscnt tinro rcaliso tehnen ns. and lOd. per lb. wholesale in 1 ancouvcr.