CANADIAN TRADE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20323, 3 February 1928, Page 9

CANADIAN TRADE

THE AUSTRALIAN TREATY. DAIRYMEN URGE ABROGATION. I (Frees Association —By Telegraph Copyright > OTTAWA, February 1.

The cause of the alarming decrease in Alberta dairy products was inquired into at the annual convention of the Alberta Dairymen’s Association. Many speakers urged that everv effort should be made to induce the Dominion Government to abrogate the Australian trade treaty, which, it was claimed, worked great hardship to Canadian dairymen.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

ATTACK ON THE TREATY

EFFECT OF BUTTER IMPORTS

OTTAWA, February 1. (Received Feb. 2, at 5.5 p.m.) A sharp attack was made on the Australian trade treaty in the House of Representatives this afternoon by Dr Peter M'Gibbon, Conservative member for Muskoka, who said that the treaty provided radical reductions in the tariff on Canadian commodities, notably butter. What, he asked, had been the effect? In 1924 the imports from Australia amounted to over 1,000,000d01, and the exports to Australia 19,000,000d01. In 1927 the imports from Australia had risen to 6,000,000d01, and the exports had fallen to 8,000,000d01. The importations of butter from Australia and New Zealand bad risen to 10,000,0001 b per year,'and the price paid to the Canadian farmer dropped 13c to 14c per lb. V> as it, he asked, a patriotic thing to import such a large quantity of butter from these dominions while the Canadian farmer suffered? He hoped some person would rise and demand that the treaty should be modified. —A. and N.Z. Cable.