WHAT CANADA IS DOING

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1508, 24 January 1901, Page 53

WHAT CANADA IS DOING

The great secret of the success and growth of Canadian and the Australasian export meat and dairy produce trade and the cold storage system of those countries (says the “National Provisioner/’ an American journal) has been the personal aid and assistance of the Governments of those colonies of Great Britain. The colonial Ministers have, from the beginning, exercised a sort of paternal-super-vision over the enterprises in question. The Agents-GeSneral of the Governments of colonies have been set as watchdogs in Europe to guard the interests of colonial produce, and to report or push forward any suggestion which would tend to improve! the methods of shipping or the market for colonial stuffs. The colonial Parliaments have not been backward in passing estimates for experimental purposes, or for any other purpose which would increase or develop colonial trade with the outside world'. This is very commendable. The Canadian Government has given another evidence of this fact by sending threte agents of the Dominion Department of Agriculture to Great Britain to “watch the unloading of Canadian food products from steamers, and to facilitate their transmission from cold storage compartments

on liners to storage warehouses on shore. ' 1 The supevision of the landing of cheese, butter, and other perishable products is to be especially observed. The! Australian Governments are at present building and enlarging cold stores, which are intended to assist the forwarding and marketing of the shipments of the smaller dealers who are not in a position to build such stores themselves. This paternal assistance to internal development, and the improveme'nt ot their foreign trade, has made the British colonial provinces powerful commercial factors in the world’s trade, and will make them more so.