Trade with Canada

Southland Times, Issue 19098, 14 July 1903, Page 2

Trade with Canada

To the Editor

Sir,-r-A few years ago' ouc " ! ■svortay member for Aivnrua spbnt ; a fo\v days in Canada on his \vny from . IiOndo:». On nrri\ing here lie expressed h'u.iwlf .m> ■ siitisGed with (he prospects of si treat trade between the Australasian colonies and Canada that he assured us he would spare no puins in having a line of assisted steu.mers .»o "Va'ricouvor. Sir .toseph \Vfli-il will uo doubt be ploa,«ed to ivot«ce that the trade has comiiienced: What we used to cnlt our ma»-kjaUi Melbourne and Sydney) .urelp w le«r with Canadian grain ; indeed, they -went so far as» to fetch « good deal to us. \Yhen, we look around our.' homesteads we Ond Canadian T ploughs, harrows, cultivators, reapers. ; aifd binders, hay forks and rakes, hay knives, separators, sowing wuchines. organs, bikes, etc. The trade has indeed coinnnenced ; but only com>u«?in.- e d ! We haven't Telt the full force of America;n character, yet, or trade either. X^unada hos <v beautiful ttgricultural .summer, a Une manufacturing winter just suflicteutly vigorous to prevent workers* demnnduig an eiglm hours* day- a Wediiesday half-holiday, patriotic holidays and so on. indeed,. Arbitration Courts starve m winter, at any /ate- Climate and . surroundings form „ strong character in Americans, and, tt s 1 said before, we have not lelt ' ihe force of it yet. Hut AmericaJis are working west, and it ™ , s ?»'> te necessiry to send the bulk of their prod »ico through the Paeiuc, ow- ?"? to n^ D distance from European: markets.'lhis .will solve all labbUr troubles m the colonies hero,, and fulfil Sir Joseph -Ward's dream of a big trade. His .tourists have turned out to be c m- orteixial .I^jivellers.— 1 aim, etc., jWintoin, 33th July. WIN'rOX.