TRADE TREATY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 2 December 1927, Page 5

TRADE TREATY

CANADA AND AUSTRALIA

ABOLITION ASKED FOR

DAIRYMEN SHARPLY REBUKED

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association)

OTTAWA, 30th Nov. Tlie Premier asked the dairymen who demanded the abolition of the trade treaty with Australia: “What becomes of trade within the Empire? Why ask for the cancellation for the sake of a single industry when a modification might do? Yours seem an extraordinary request.” / The Premier, in promising tion, declared that Parliament wa.s the proper place for a treaty debate and asked that the dairymen submit objections there.

Mr Robb, 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 to 1925, before the treaty, 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 wa.s helping other industries in Canada,which were selling 18,000,000 dollars worth .of products to Australia’s 6,000,000 to Canada. Mr Robb cited Canada’s tremendous increase in exports of newsprint and Canadian motor exports were losing by Australia raising the tariff, while British preference was, undisturbed.