CANADIAN TRADE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20271, 2 December 1927, Page 9

CANADIAN TRADE

TREATY WITH AUSTRALIA. DAIRYMEN DEMAND ABOLITION. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright) OTTAWA, November 30. (Received Dec. 1, at 8.5 p.m.) The Premier asked the dairymen who demanded the abolition of the trade treaty with Australia: “ What becomes of trade within the Empire? Why ask fir cancellation for the sake of a single industry when modification might do? Yours seems to be an extraordinary request.” The Premier, in promising consideration, declared that Parliament was the proper place for a treaty debate and asked the dairymen to submit their objections there.

Mr J. A. Robb, Minister o” Finance, defending the treaty, declared that the dairymen as a whole were not suffering. Cream and milk were fetching good prices in good markets. The average price of Canadian butter in 1924-25 before the treaty was 42 cents a lb; now it was 46 cents. Canadians were not exporting, because Montreal’s pricer were higher than London’s. The treaty was 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. Canadian motor exports were losing by Australia raising the tariff, while British preference was undisturbed. —A. and N.Z. Cable.

The National Dairy Council, supported by the Canadian Council of Agriculture, urged the Government to wipe out the Australian treaty, and to apply the dumping clause to New "caland butter.