NEW ZEALAND SCORES

Evening Star, Issue 20422, 1 March 1930, Page 27

NEW ZEALAND SCORES

OUR BUTTER IN CANADA £Fao.« Our Ow.v Correspondent.] VANCOUVER, February 5. The serious competition of the New Zealand imported butter with Canada’s domestic supplies continues to agitato the dairy interests of Canada. The Conservative journal, the ‘ Victoria Colonist,’ of British Columbia, alluding to the much-discussed subject, says. “The Canadian people are now paying to New Zealand dairy farmers annually almost ten million dollars that might otherwise go into the pockets of Canadian producers to bo used to buy Canadian goods and build up Canadian prosperity. The freight rate on New Zealand butter shipped from Auckland to Vancouver, a distance of 6.400 miles, is only Idol 96 cents per hundred pounds, _ while it costs the -Canadian farmer in Saskatoon area just one cent more per hundred pounds to ship his product to Victoria (British Columbia). This is not all, for the freight rate charged the Now Zealander includes refrigeration costs, while the Canadian dairy farmer must pay for icing charges in addition to tho cost of freight.’’