Cards On The Table

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1081, 19 September 1930, Page 9

Cards On The Table

CANADA’S TARIFF POLICY

Gesture To Whole Empire

MR. FORBES HOPEFUL FOR NEW TREATY

(’AN AD A goes to the Imperial Conference in London with * her cards on the table so the remainder of the Empire may know where she stands upon trade and tariff relations. The Prime Minister of Now Zealand, the lion. G. Y\ . Forbes, is hopeful that an agreement of benefit to both Dominions will be arranged as the result of his present visit to Ottawa. But, lie adds, there must be no one-sided treaties.

United P.A. — By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 10.45 a.m. OTTAWA, Thurs.

they will not enable us to secure markets for our agricultural produces in general. This House is further of the opinion that the solution of our problem can be found only by the adoption of co-operative principles in production and distribution, and by public control of*eredifc.” CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS MR. FORBES TALKS TARIFF NO ONE-SIDED TREATIES Reed. 1010 a.m. OTTAWA, Thurs. "I feel confident from the little conversations I have had in Ottawa that we will be able to get together in matters of trade to the mutual advantage of New Zealand and Canada,” said the New Zealand Prime Minister, the Hon. G. W. Forbes, addressing the Canadian Club today. “However, there can be no onesided agreement, but with the goodwill that has been extended to me in the conferences, I feel we will be able to effect something of a satisfactory nature to both countries.” New Zealand, Mr. Forbes said whimsically, had secured a great deal of advertising throughout Canada in the matter of butter, and for that inexpensive publicity he was duly grateful. He realised that New Zealand was supplying a particularly fine article, but he had not suspected it contained sucb» political qualities. When he returned home he would inform the butter-makers that they were manufacturing a commodity embodying a great deal more than they were aware of.

Speaking in reply to opposition in the House of Commons to the new tariff proposals, the Minister of Trade and Commerce, Mr. H. H. Stevens, said he did not believe in negotiating a trade treaty with Australia, giving her certain preference in respect to butter and then, when the first shipment arrived in the country under that preference, clamping on a duty of six cents. That would be unfair and from the moment it was done Canada would largely have destroyed the goodwill of Australia and the friendliness of that country’. Mr. Stevens declared that the members of the Administration were going to the Imperial Conference with their cards on the table, so that the Governments of New Zealand, Australia and South Africa and that of the Mother Land, would know exactly where Canada’s representatives stood. Canada’s delegation was going to the conference in a spirit of goodwill and co-operation to negotiate with various parts of the Empire in friendly cooperation. The delegation would make every effort to include in any arrangements made articles beneficial to those Empire countries, but not injurious to Canadian industry and agriculture, and with a corresponding arrangement in respect to Canadian goods.

Mr. E. J. Garland (United Farmers of Alberta) today moved a progressive amendment to the Liberal amendment against the tariff proposals. This, after stating that Parliament had been called to deal with unemployment and that extreme agricultural depression exists, says: “The House is of opinion that the proposals do not constitute a permanent or a general cure for unemployment in particular, and