COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT.
AUSTRALIA AND CANADA
RATIFYING OF THF. TREATY
THE DOMINION HESITATING.
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT, Received April 29, 12.5 p.m. OTTAWA, April 28. The Montreal Star says that a commercial treaty between Canada and Australia is a logical and desirable agreement, which should have been oil the statute books many years ago. The balance of trade between Canada and Australia is overwhelmingly in favour of the Dominion, which has naturally increased the difficulty oi reaching a commercial agreement. Canada” asked for the opening of the negotiations lately in progress. The Australian Government, despite much opposition, ratified the agreement, and the failure of the Canadian Parliament to approve at this late date can hardly help being regarded as a deliberate affront to Australia. There will lie little prospect of a renewal of these negotiations if Canada does not now ratify the pact which she has already approved Canada has an opportunity to olay a large role in the development of preferential trade within the Empire ; she can by gesture be the pioneer in this field, and it would be a far bettor way of expressing our nationhood than bv picayune and childish hleatings about Lausanne.”—Avis.N.Z. Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 29 April 1925, Page 9
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195COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 29 April 1925, Page 9
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