CANADIAN BUDGET

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1930, Page 5

CANADIAN BUDGET

OPPOSITION AMENDMENT.

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(Received May 7, 11.30 a.m.) OTTAWA, May 6.

The Conservative leader, Mr Bennett, to-day moved a Budget amendment declaring that while the House welcomes and approves every measure that will afford the Canadian agriculture industry and labour equal opportunity for fair competition, the development of the rich and varied natural resources of the Dominion, and to provide the extension of interEmpire trade by mutually advantageous preferences, with due regard to the interests of the consumers, it is of the opinion that the proposals submitted by the Minister of Finance are in several important respects so completely at variance with the policies of this Government as heretofore declared, that this administration having lost the confidence of the country, cannot safely be entrusted with the direction of the fiscal policy of Canada, nor the carrying into effect of proposals to which it has heretofore been opposed, and which are deceptive and fail to estimate the financial results of their operations, and which created distrust of, and contempt for representative institutions. Premier King announced that the General Elections will be held this year at the earliest possible moment. The Premier suggested that he and the Conservative Leader should meet to arrange that the business of the session should be brought to an ordinary and speedy conclusion.

TARIFF ON N.Z. BUTTER.

HAMILTON, May 7.

“There can be little doubt that the attitude adopted by the Canadian lumberman has contributed in no small measure to the passing of the butter tariff now in force against New Zealand,” remarked Mr McDonald, head of the Canadian lumber delegation, during a visit to Hamilton.

New Zealand dairy companies, he said, were using Scandinavian timber for butter boxes. All attempts to induce the factories to use Canadian ■wood had failed, and as a result the lumbermen felt they would be justified in not opposing the increase. Had some agreement been reached as the result of the delegation’s visit to New Zealand, the position might conceivably have been very different.