CANADIAN BUTTER MARKET.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3277, 10 March 1931, Page 4

CANADIAN BUTTER MARKET.

A cable message from Vancouver last week stated that the Aorangi had arrived there with 478 boxes of butter as compared with 23,000 boxes on the same voyage last year. While the increase in butter production in Canada is partly responsible for this, the tariff embargo on New Zealand butter is the chief reason for the small quantity shipped this year to Canada. Australia sent 432,7681b5. butter to Canada last January, and New Zealand 17961b5. For the same month in the previous year Canada imported 7,437,1921b5. of butter, mostly from New Zealand. Since September of last year 5000 tons of Australian butter have been shipped to Canada, but as the producing will now shortly be starting there no further shipments will be likely this year. The Prime Minister, when on his way to the Imperial Conference, tried to arrange a reciprocal tariff with Canada, but failed. Mr. Forbes has not yet made it clear why he could not come to an agreement in this matter when the Australian Minister of Trade and Commerce was successful. The same conditions in regard to Canada apply to the meat trade. In 1922 the export of New Zealand lamb and mutton to Canada was seven limes those from Australia. To-day the position is reversed, for the exports to Canada of this class of meat from Australia is forty times those from New Zealand. If would be interesting to know why Canada has taken such steps to shut out importations from New Zealand. Any trade between the two countries has been in favour of Canada, yet in face of this she seems bent on placing an embargo on all imports from this country.