NEW ZEALAND BUTTER

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 88, 12 January 1928, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER

POPULARITY IN CANADA New Zealand butter is again under fire, in connection with an angry protest by the National Dairy Council if Canada, made in person by .way of delegation to the Federal Cabinet at Ottawa. The delegation (says the Vancouver correspondent of the Christ church “Press”) asked at first for the abrogation of the Australian trade treaty and the benefits New Zealand derived from similar concessions. but, when the Prime Minister (Mr. Mackenzie King) made it clear that such a. request. was net likely to be considered for a moment, the delegation thinned it down to the buffer preference. . But the queues are still outside the grocery stores that sell New Zealand butter when shipments are in. and cabled disnatches announce the quantify each shin carries. There is no Australian butter —practically none—coming into the Dominion, but the Australian trade treaty hears- the brunt of every comnlaint of the dnirv farmers, especially H’oce on the prairie.. That the adversaries of Hie freafv. and of the concession New Zealand, butter enjoys under it are net presenting tbe ease' fairly is the onininn expressed by more than one influential imirnnl.. ordinary man is niore prone to believe this,” says the Montreal "Star. .when lie finds, to his amazement, that New Zealand butter, travelling over hundreds of miles by land, then across «.0«0 miles of ocean, and a furthei 3000 miles of land, can compete successfully with the butter made on the spot in one: ci the dairying provinces ol Canada, llns is little short of miraculous. Ihe National Dairy Council deny there is a ntiracle involved, and allege unfair advantage. If they prove their allegations they should be granted relief, for it is not in reason that the farmers of Canada should be compelled to suffer because some other section of the coinniunity needs assistance. But, if the success of the New Zealand dairy farmer is the result of his own enterprise and up-to-date methods, lie deserves to reap his reward and earn the gratitude of the Canadian consumer at rhe same time The Canadian farmer presumably could, if he would, use the same methods and win back that exportable surplus of -1,000.0001 b. of butler, of which he was so proud in 1925.”