NEWSPAPER COMMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 107, 6 May 1926, Page 10

NEWSPAPER COMMENT

(Router's Telegram.) (Received 6th May, 2.30 p.m.) VANCOUVER, sth May. The "Province" says: "Not only has the Government imposed a dumjt duty of 6 cents a pound on all butter imported from Australia since the beginning of this year, but the announcement has just been made by Mr. L. B. Taylor, president of the Horticultural Council, Canada, that a similar duty has been ordered on all canned peaches and apricots coming to Canada from the sister Dominion. The reason for the dump is the same in each instance, namely, that there is an export bonus of 6 cents a pound on all butter, canned peaches and apricots produced in Australia." Mr. J. H. M'Donald, president of the British Columbia division of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, who toured the Antipodes with the Finance Minister (Mr. J. A. Robb) at the time the Australian Treaty was being negotiated, is quoted by a newspaper as saying: "Government action in regard to the dump duty on butter passing into Canada from Australia during the past few months seems designed to kill the effect of the preferential trade Treaty just recently entered into. Would it not have been better for the Govern^ ment to have issued a warding to our ri«ter Dominion that produce sold for export to Canada must be at the same price that it is sold for home consumption?"