TRADE WITH CANADA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 August 1924, Page 3

TRADE WITH CANADA.

MARKETING OF DAIRY * PRODUCTS. A NEW ZEALAND DELEGATION. (Reuter.) Ottawa. At an informal conference at Toronto between members of a New Zealand delegation investigating the marketing of dairy products in Canada and the executive of the United Dairymen Cooperative, Limited, it was pointed out that New Zealand and Canada supply 84 per cent of the cheese reacning Great Britain, and that if, joint action ’could be secured between the producers in the two countries as to total production, shipment, etc., it should lie possible to so feed the British market as to prevent the gluts which every now and then have a demoralising effect on prices. It was agreed that as soon as the New Zealand Dairy Produce Control Board has decided upon its selling policy it will further discuss the possibility of joint action with the directors of the United Dairymen Co-operative, Limited.

Owing to the difference between conditions in New Zealand and Canada, the directors of the United Dairymen Co-operative, Limited, have felt that up to the present public auction sales of cheese ensured the keenest competition, and have been following this method in disposing of their products. New Zealand, being 12,000 miles away from the British market, has found it impossible to conduct such sales. Members of the delegation were quite interested in securing information alxmt these sales. Hydro-electric Power.

According to official statistics on the hydro-electric situation in Canada, only about one-sixth of the ordinary minimum flow available for development has been harnessed, and yet the work which has heen accomplished in that connection has already placed this country in the forefront of nations which have displayed initiative in appreciating the value of electricity developed from water power as a national essential to the comfort and progressiveness of its people. The figures supplied hv the waterpower branch of the Deoartment of the Interior show that Quebec. Ontario. Manitoba, and .British Columbia possess in the order named the greatest amount of undeveloped water power, while at the present time Ontario and Quebec rank first in developed power, Ontario having a slight advantage over Quebec. The Ontario power developed amounts to 1.444.480 horse-power, against Quebec’s 1.111.398 horse-power. It is in these two provinces that the greatest development of the future is bound to take nlacc, as Quebec has 6.01 0,244 and Ontario '4.960.000 horsepower waiting to lie harnessed and put to industrial, domestic, and other uses. Crain for Now Zealand. An order from New Zealand for between 6090 and 6000 tons of Alberta oats has been received by a loeal grain firm. This is the first time that Alberta oats have ever been shipped to Xew Zealand. Owing to a shortage in the erop there, importations have heen necessary. Tt is likely that further orders will be placed in Alberta, as the shortage in * Xew Zealand is said to be in the fioighhourhond of 4.000.000 bushels.