TREATY WITH CANADA

Evening Star, Issue 20193, 5 June 1929, Page 9

TREATY WITH CANADA

AUSTRALIA AND HEW ZEALAND EFFECT OX DAIRYING INDUSTRY. Press Association—By Telegraph —Copyright OTTAWA, June 3. When attacking thc_ trade treaty with Australia and New Zealand m the House of Commons, Air AI. G. Senn .(Conservative) insisted that the Canadian dairy industry had suffered severely. The agreement to ruin this industry was too high price to pay for encouraging inter-Empire trade. He advocated that steps be taken to obtain better terms from both Anstralia and New Zealand.—Australian Press Association-United Service.

MINISTERS SUPPORT TREATY.

OTTAWA, June I

For the first time since the treaty came into operation the House heard the suggestion advanced that NewZealand might reasonably he dropped from the treaty. This was the suggestion of Mr Grate Stirling, Conservative membci for Jthv Rritish Columbian constituency of Yale, one of the largest in the dominion. ";l strongly support the treaty," he said. "It is of great benefit to Canada, but trouble has been created by extending the. same provisions to New Zealand which is so extensively engaged in the dairy industry. Canada's dairy farmers are paying for the benefits' of the treaty, and it is up to the Government' to consider New Zealand's elimination, while preserving the basic treaty." WliisG'there was no direct reply to Mr Stirling's plea or any resolution proposed by five speakers, two Ontario farmers 'opposed the treaty generally. Mr A. Robb (Minister of Finance) and Mr Jt. Forke (Minister of Immigration) supported the treaty. Mr Robb quoted figures to show that the dairyman was getting higher prices now" than ever "before, and he added that while butter was imported at 49 cents a. pound the equivalent on the sale of milk was 52 cents a pound. —United Service. THE AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY. ADVICE TO FARMERS. SYDNEY, June o. (Received June 5, at 9.-0 a.m.) At the annual meeting of dairy factory managers and secretaries the president (Mr W. Fackender) declared that, as the proposed new United States tariff would drive Canadian dairy produce off that/market, naturally Canada would in future ship more heavily to London. This would directly affect both New Zealand and Canada, making competition still more acute for Australia. He urged Australian dairy farmers to adopt more scientific methods of cropping, cropping for ensilage, and top-dressing, following closely the lines of the New Zealand fanners. My U'is means they would he prepared for eventualities.

Mr C. Mearcs described the great strides which the butter industry had made iu New Zealand, also the measures hy which this position was attained.