AUSTRALIAN TREATY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 6 December 1928, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN TREATY

CANADIAN CRITICISM.

BUTTER FROM NEW ZEALAND. 450,000 CASES ON ORDER. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 9.55 a.m. to-day. OTTAWA, Dec. 5. A message from Victoria- states:- —- Speaking in support of the candidate Mr D. P. Plunkett yesterday, Mr R. B. Hen nett, Conservative Leader, made liis first direct attack on the Australian treaty. He claimed that under the treaty, because of the dumping clauses, no butter was admitted to Canada, yet the pact extended to New Zealand, from which country there were on order to-day 250,000 oases. Referring to lumber export, !h-e said' that. Australia bought

350 million feet- yearly, but- only 50 million came from- Canada. Dumber waisi not in the treaty, so l Canada could get no preference. He appealed for the economic independence of Canada. He admitted the country was prosperous, but he claimed that conditions were unbeailffchy.