RECIPROCAL TRADE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10764, 11 May 1911, Page 6

RECIPROCAL TRADE.

EFFECT ON NEW ZEALAND

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, May 10. In view of the many disconcerting statements -that oa'bled out regarding tho = reciprocity -proposals. between Canada and the United. States, a: Herald representative waited upon Mr W. A. Beddoe, the Canadian Trade Commissioner,' to-day, and invited him to make a statemeilt-'on'the subject. "I am not," said Mrrßeddoe, in reply to the question, "at liberty to discuss the merits' or demerits of the Bill as it may affect- Canadian -interests, but 1 maywith propriety indicate what effect its passage may have on New. Zealand trade. : Live ; animals, 1 cattle,- horses, sheep, lambs, etc., poultry (dead or alive), wheat, rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, dried peas and Beans, edible corn, swcet'corn,-' hay, 'straw, "fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, .dried fruits, dairy products, such as butter, cheese, fresh milk and cream, eggs in the shell, honey, seeds (riot including flower seeds), which could heretofore, enter Canada from New Zealand. subject to various grades of Customs duty, will, in the event -of;the Reciprocity:Bifl becoming law, enter Canada from New Zealand free of duty, and meat will enter under reduced duty. I have just enumerated a few articles in which New Zealand may he interested,., hut the above does, not exhaust the free list. I cannot understand .how the trade agreement involves disloyalty 'to the Motherland. Canada has trade treaties with France, Germany,. Japan, Holland, Belgium, and even New. Zealand, and neither country has annexed the other yet. I have ' lived many years in Canada, and have never heard _a_ disloyal sentiment expressed. Neither have I heard a suggestion of annexation."