CANADA’S TARIFF

Grey River Argus, 13 June 1931, Page 5

CANADA’S TARIFF

BRITISH COLUMBIA UP IN ARMS. | TALK OF IMPORTING WHEAT. OTTAWA, June 11. | In the House to-day, Mr A. W. Neill (Independent) said the live cents bounty on export wheat contained in the Budget would simply increase the unfair discrimination between export and domestic freight rates in British Columbia. It would mean that British Columbia would have to pay five cents more per bushel than the exporters. Already some British Columbia buyers were talking of sending an agent to Australia, as they t estimated they could buy wheat there and lay it down for less money than ' they could get from Alberta. The ■ present Government had fooled away ■ the New Zealand market. When that I Dominion removed the British preference benefits, it injured British Columbia fishermen’s preference of a dolI lar and a quarter per ease on certain kinds of fish, which had been stopped. This was the direct result of the eight cents tariff on butter. The Government had been warned from many sides that i a tariff of four cents was sufficient. It ! must accept (the consequences of the | eight cents rate. ' FARMERS GIVE UP HOLDINGS. I OTTAWA, June 12. A message from Saskatoon says, I that driven out by drought from farms, I where they have not had crops since | 1928, farmers have started trekking | north from southern Saskatchewan. abandoning lands and deb.ts, driving live stock with them, and camping ! along the route.