ELECTION CROP

Hawera Star, Volume L, 26 August 1930, Page 9

ELECTION CROP

HARVEST IN CANADA FIRST SHEAVES GARNERED VANCOUVER; PRESS COMMENT. (United Pleas Association—By Electric TeleerapL Copy rig tit. J Received 1.33 p.m. to-day. VANCOUVER, Aug. 2b. Commenting on the New Zealand motor car tariff the “Vancouver Suh” states editorially: “The first sheaves in Canada’s election harvest were garnered in last week when New Zealand peremptoriallv cut off the tariff preference which she has maintained on Canadian motor cars and parts, and discussed the dropping of further preference on British Columbia lumber and newsprint. This means that Canada’s yearly trade amounting to 12,000,000 dollars with New Zealand in motor cars and motor parts will he materially decreased, and that any hope of expanding British Columbia’s market lor her food products in New Zealand might just as well lie forgotten. “Canadian people are paying a high price for the whimsical notion of electing Mr. Bennett to the Premiership of Canada. New Zealand’s .slap at Canadian trade should give Canadians something to think about. It will most certainly injure Canadian trade to the ■extent of creating many more hungry months in the Dominion next winter.

“Of course, Mr. Bennett, spending his own millions, won’t go hungry, but factory workers down in Ontario and lumber and newsprint employees in British Columbia have not those millions to pay with and some of them will go hungry. Mr. Bennett was elected on a specious promise of ending unemployment by an Act of Parliament. Yet the first consequence of his election is an act that will take jobs from Canadian workers and make food more difficult to buy for Canadian mouths. Canada’s election harvest is beginning, and looks like a sad, sad crop.”