THE CANADIAN BUTTER TRADE.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 12

THE CANADIAN BUTTER TRADE.

Attention was drawn in this column yesterday to the great expansion of the New Zealand butter trade with Canada. Australian butter makers are also anxious to improve their position in the Canadian .market, but the Paterson Plan of raising the_ price of Australian butter to Australian producers has been interpreted in Canada as a warranty for a dumping duty on Australian butter for that Dominion. Interest in the trade with Canada has been stimulated by the work of the Australian Trade Commissioner (Mr. ■B. A. Haynes). New Zealand, he reports, has been paying great attention to this market in the last two seasons, and Australian shippers are anxious to share in the trade. Canada requires between 4000 and 5000 tons of butter each winter when home production almost ceases, and of this quantity New Zealand now supplies about 3000 tons. The output of butter in Canada has recently declined; five years ago the Dominion had an export surplus of about 35,000,0001b, thi3 season there is ' * shortage of approximately 20,000,0001b. This has been attributed to the attractive market for beef in the United States. which has led Canadian farmers to sell •yen their dairy herds.