CANADIAN ELECTION
OUR BUTTER WAS AiST ISSUE
(From "The Post's" Representative.} VANCOUVEK, sth July.
The effect of the import of New Zealand butter into Canada has been made a major issue in the General Election campaign by the Leader of the Conservative Party, tho Hon. B. B. Bennett, who rarely omits to denounce it in his speeches. The- radio supplements newspaper reports in widely disseminating tho bitterness of tho Conservatives toward the reciprocity treaty with Australia, which, was extended to New cZaland by Order-in-CounciL All tho ills, real and imaginary, that the dairy industry in Canada is suffering are laid by Mi". Bennett at the door of New Zealand.
Tho Conservative Leader has gone- as far as to suggest that tho Prime Minister has more consideration for New Zealand than for Canada. "Is he Prime Minister of Canada or New Zealand?" he askc-d. "I suggest he go to New Zealand; wo can spare him here."
A samplo of Mr. Bennett's invective, delivered in a dairy farming district, is as follows: "The- effect of the New Zealand, agreement has been disastrous to the dairy industry, and you realise it here. From a country exporting 24,000,0001b of butter in 1925, Canada has become an importer of 40,000,0001b. All this has taken place in five years. Our dairying business has been lost. Wo have 140,000 fewer milk cows to-day than in 1925 and there has beon a corresponding depletion in ous
CANADIAN ELECTION
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 31, 5 August 1930, Page 9
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