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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 262, 1 August 1929, Page 9

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EFFECT ON CANADIAN DAIRY INDUSTRY COMPETITION OF NEW ZEALAND BUTTER Australian Tress Assn.—United Service. (Rec. July 31, 11.15 p.m.) Vancouver, July 31. The Conservative Leader, Mr. Bennett, addressing a meeting at West Vancouver oa Tuesday night, said, regarding the extension of favoured nation treatment to New Zealand four years ago: “Before there was any such arrangement our dairy farmers supplied our butter requirements and we exported some. Last year, as a result of the action of our Government, we hai. to Import twenty .million pounds of butter, principally from New Zealand. Forty-five cents per pound was paid for this butter. I want this forty-five cents here, not in New Zealand. That is the difference between the Liberals and myself. Canada had 101,000 fewer cows to-day as a result of butter coming from New Zealand. Suppose It happened that you could not get butter from New Zealand, how would our needs be supplied, since we have 101,000 fewer cows? This country would be in a state of economic dependence. Yon can never make a country If yon allow the glut production of another country to be loaded Into this Dominion and destroy our own industry. The only way to succeed was to develop Canada for the Canadians. The Conservati'*es have been accused of being high protectionists. The Conservatives never stood for high protection, bnt the protection proposed by the Conservatives was that which would give Canadians fair competition.”