DOMINIONS' RECIPROCITY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19140, 5 October 1925, Page 9

DOMINIONS' RECIPROCITY.

* CANADA AND AUSTRALIA. * ' ! TRADE TREATY PROSPECTS. MUTUAL BENEFITS LIKELY. By Telegraph—Praia Association-^ Copyright, (Received 7Ji p.nO Beater. VANCOUVER, Oct. 3. The Prime Minister, Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, addressed a mass meeting at New Westminster, British Columbia, to-day on the benefits which ho expects will be derived from the trada treaty with Australia, "If we, as Canadians, increase our trade relationships with other parts of the Empire," said Mr. King, we are certain to become on more intimate terms with them, and we cannot fail to strengthen those invisible links which we, as British people are all most desirousi of strengthening. " Australians share wi th Canadians that loyalty which is written on thousands, of little white crosses in the Gethsemane of the world, " Although Australia bad an exports**# surplus of many agricultural commodities which are not produced in Canada theffO had so far been little business intercourse between the two Dominions. There were items, i£ was true, in the new agreement which entered into some degree of competition with product* grown in Canada, but he did not think this competition would be serious.

On the ofchur hand, the agreement might result in lessening the cost of what was pat upon their breakfast tables irt Canada. Referring to the expected importation, tinder the preference clauses, of raisins grown by Australian veterans who were seeking to establish a new industry, Mr. King said he believed the future of these men who had fotight so valorously at Gallipoli and in Fknders depended upon the result of the experiment. If Canadians could aid the returned soldiers of Australia in some small measure by creating a market for their products he believed they should do so. The Government would put three cents i> lb. duty against Califoraian raisins in order that these men at the other end of the world might be given a chance.