CANADIAN DAIRYMEN

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 December 1927, Page 5

CANADIAN DAIRYMEN

CANCELLATION OF TREATY.

REQUEST TO PRIME MINISTER.

“AN EXTRAORDINARY CLAIM.” BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. OTTAWA, Nov. 30. The Prime Minister (-the Rt. Hon. Mackenzie King) asked the dairymen who demanded the -abolition of the trade treaty with Australia “what. becomes of t-r-ade within the Empire- : Why ask for cancellation of the treaty for 'the sake of a single industry when modification might dot” Hh added: “Yours seems an extraordinary request.” . . . The Prime Minister, in promising consideration of the -request, declared that Parliament wa-s the proper place for a treaty debate, and asked the dairymen to -submit their objections there. ... TT The Minister of Finance (the Hon. J. A Robb) in defending the treaty, declared that dairymen as a (whole were not suffering. Cream and milk were fetching good -prices in good markets The average price of Canadian butter in 1924-25, i.e. before the treaty was entered into, was 42 cents a pound and now it was 46. Canadians were not exporting because Montreal s prices were higher than London’s. The treaty was helping other industries in Canada, which was selling 18.000.000 doLars worth' of products to Australia againstsix millions imported by Canada from die Commonwealth. Mr Robb also cited Canada s tremendous increase in exports in newsprint though Canadian motor exports were losing by Australia raising the tariff while Having British preference undisturbed.