CANADIAN TRADE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20786, 3 August 1929, Page 16

CANADIAN TRADE

THE AUSTRALIAN TREATY. MR BENNETT'S PROTESTS. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) VANCOUVER, August 1. The speeches by Mr R. B. Bennett, the Tory Leader, on the Australian treaty are arousing so much opposition as to amount to complete cleavage between the Federal and the Provincial Conservatives. For years Mr Bennett has protested against the treaty, and is now renewing the opposition at various places in British Columbia. There has been no attack so far on the coast, where the great paper and salmon industries benefit .normously from the Australian markets. The Provincial Government has openly desired the extension of the treaty to cover lumber, and would bitterly oppose an effort to reduce the present advantages of the agreement. Mr Bennett’s journalistic friends on the coast also support the treaty. _ The Vancouver Province, the Conservative organ, has warned the Tory Party not to: meddle with the pact.—Australian Press Association.