CANADA’S TRADE

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 284, 27 August 1930, Page 11

CANADA’S TRADE

And New Zealand Tariff

PREFERENCE CUT “Election Harvest” By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Vancouver, August 25. Commenting on the New Zealand motor tariff, the “Vancouver Sun” says editorially: “The first sheaves in Canada’s election harvest were garnered in last week when New Zealand peremptorily cut off the tariff preference she has maintained on Canadian motors and motor parts and discussed the dropping of further preference on British Columbia lumber and newsprint. This means that Canada’s 12,000,000-dollar yearly trade with New Zealand in motors and motor parts will be materially decreased, and that any hope of expanding British Columbia’s market for her wood products in New Zealand might just as well be forgotten.

“The Canadian people are paying a high price for their whimsical notion of electing Mr. Bennett Prime Minister of Canada. New Zealand’s slap at Canadian trade should give Canadians something to think about. It most certainly will injure Canadian trade to the extent of creating many more hungry mouths in the Dominion next winter.

“Of course, Mr. Bennett, in spending his own millions, will not go hungry, but factory workers down in Ontario and lumber and newsprint employees in British Columbia have not those millions to play with, and some of them will go hungry. “Mr. Bennett was elected on the specious promise of ending unemployment by Act of Parliament, yet the first consequence of his election is an act that will take jobs from Canadian workers and make food more difficult to buy for Canadian mouths. Canada’s election harvest is beginning. It looks like a sad, sad crop.”