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Evening Star, Issue 20592, 18 September 1930, Page 18

Private, cable advice was received in Wellington to tho effect that the Dominion Parliament of Canada is considering the .Imposition of the following import duties on butter:—British preferential tariff, _8 cents (4d) per, lb; intermediate tariff, 12 cents (6di; and general tariff, 14 cents (7d). The existing duty on New Zealand butter is 1 cent (]d) per lb. It was decided to raise the duty from 1 cent to 4 cents against Now Zealand butter as from October 12. This step was regarded by the New Zealand Government as unfriendly, with certain results to tho Canadian motor car trade. It is contended that the imposition of an 8-cent duty on New Zealand butter would practically exclude it from Canada, assuming that Canadian-made butter did not go to such high prices as to make it profitable business to import from Now Zealand. The effect of these now and higher duties, if given effect to, may have a weakening influence on the Now Zealand butter market in the United Kingdom, inasmuch as Canada had already grown into a most valuable second market. Tim exports of New Zealand butter to Canada last season were approximately 800,(4)0 boxes, valued at, roughly, £2,800,000. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for influenza. coles.—[Adyt.]