CANADIAN BUTTER DUTY

Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1930, Page 11

CANADIAN BUTTER DUTY

NEW ZEALANDERS CONDEMN

"PRODUCTION WILL BE NO MORE.”

HIGH PRICE THOUGHT INEVITABLE.

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. '•*. ». Winnipeg, May 5.

New Zealand butter is bound to command a higher price when the Canadian duty is imposed next autumn. Wholesale utter dealers declare that Canadian production cannot be increased despite the new four cents duty, and that ■the Canadian supply cannot meet the demand. Thus the price of both products will be found to be higher. The New - Zealand newspaper proprietors who arrived on Sunday en route for England ■ Condemned the three cent cut. import tax to be levied on New Zealand butter. Mr. A. E. Manning, of the Waikato Times, considered the proposal iniquitous and expressed the belief that it would lead to reprisals on the part of New Zealand. Expressing the opposition of the New ■Zealand newspaper - proprietors to the . increased butter tariff. Mr, T. C. List, of the Taranaki Daily News, speaking at a luncheon gathering at Winnipeg, stated that butter was practically New Zealand’s only export to Canada, and added: "Wb must pay for our imports by exports.”