N.Z. BUTTER GOES TO CANADA

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3265, 8 February 1926, Page 7

N.Z. BUTTER GOES TO CANADA

MENACE OF THE AUSTRALIAN TREATY

Causes Flutter in North America

IMPENDING PERIL TO DAIRY INTERESTS

Simultaneously Willi tiic warning by a Canadian co-operative concern of impending peril to the dairy Interests of Western Canada created by the Australian Treaty comes news of the landing hi British Columbia of the first shipment of antipodean butler.

[By Electric Cable—Uopyrlght] [Aust and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 9.80 p.m.) VICTORIA, Feb. 7.

Commenting on thy arrival of fourteen thousand cases of butter from the antipodes on Friday, the Hon, E. D. Barrow, Minister of Agriculture for British Cloumbia, said Canada must eventually taco competition from Austra'ian dairymen in the world's markets.

‘(Even if we shut out Australian butter from here with a high tariff, Australia could still compete with us. Th 0 . facts of the butter situation are somewhat peculiar and probably not widely understood. Canada is at present producing largo quantities of butter,. which she cannot use, and a big surplus Is being exported from Western Canada to Great Britain, via Panama. It is difficult jto see how Australia can find a permanent butter market here under those conditions. At the same time if we kept out Australian butter we should feel its competition just the same in the British market, where the products of both Dominions naturally come into competition."

CANADIAN BUTTER QOES UP.

SURPLUS SHIPPED BAST FOR i BETTER PRICES.

(Received Sunday, 7 p.m,) VANCOUVER. Feb. 5,

Simultaneously with the arrival by the Niagara of fifteen thousand crates of first Australian treaty butter and five thousand Now Zealand top grade, Canadian to-day advanced ~in Vancouver by two cents, to forty-six. second-grade from forty-two to fortyfour. The advance is due to Canadian prairie butter being bulk-shipped East for higher prices leaving no surplus in the West, , Four thousand cases were landed at Victoria, and the remainder at Vancouver for national ''distribution. Dealers are awaiting tests of quality of Australian for comparison with New Zealand. The press is prominently noting the arrivals. Dairymen assert that anti-treaty warnings of injury arc Justified.

PERIL TO WESTERN CANADIAN INTERESTS.

DAIRYMEN APPROACHING FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,

(Received Sunday, 7 p.m.)

VANCOUVER, Feb. 5.

A message from Regina, Saskatchewan, states that the Co-operative Creameries annual report shows a slight profit for the first time since 1920.

The directors In the report call attention to the Impending peril to dairy interests of Western' Canada created by the Australian treaty. It declares the company will be represented when the Western Dairy Association waits upon the Federal Government in this connection shortly.

The report states the company will enlarge business in British Columbia and take advantage of the Oriental market.

UNCLE SAM GETS WIND UP, TOO.

TARIFF COMMISSION'S BUTTER REPORT WANTED. (Received Sunday, 7 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Feb. 6. Senator Schall introduced a resolution into Congress directing the Federal Tariff Commission to submit its butter report to the President at the earliest practicable date. The resolution also provided for “House" investigation to determine the Commission’s methods in making inquiry under congressional authority granted th e Commission. White House took cognisance of Senator Schall’s resolution explaining that the Commlslon’s delay in concluding the butter investigation may be duo to the fact that the Commission Is required to broaden its labours beyond an agricultural scope. The Commission began work on the theory that most butter imports came from Denmark, whereas it later discovered that much foreign butter competing with American came from New Zealand, Argentine and Canada. Extension of the inquiry delayed the Commission’s report. AUSTRALIAN TREATY. CUTS CANADIAN CORNER. VANCOUVER, Feb, 5. The Australian treaty in respect to butter Is bringing heavy losses to speculators who had the Canadian supply cornered.