“SAD ELECTOM HARVEST”

Taranaki Daily News, 27 August 1930, Page 9

“SAD ELECTOM HARVEST”

BLOW TO CANADA’S TRADE NEW TARIFF ON MOTOR CARS ACTION BY NEW ZEALAND By Telegraph —Press Assn.—-Copyright. Vancouver, Aug. 25. Commenting on the Nev,' Zealand motor? car tariff the Vancouver Sun’ states editorially: ‘‘The first sheaves in Canada’s election harvest were garnered in last week when New Zealand peremptorily cut off the tariff preference which she has maintained on Canadian motor-cars and parts, and discussed the dropping of further preference on British Columbia lumber and newsprint. “This means that Canada’s yearly trade, amounting to 12,000,000 dollars with New Zealand in motor-cars and motor parts will be materially decreased, and that any hope of expanding British Columbia’s market for her wood products in New Zealand might just as well be forgotten. Canadian people are paying a high price for their whimsical notion of electing Mr. Bennett to the Premiership of Canada. “New Zealand’s slap at Canadian trade should give Canadians something to think about. It most certainly injures Canadian trade to the extent of creating many more hungry mouths in the Dominion next winter. Of course Mr. Bennett, spending his own millions, won’t go hungry, but factory workers in Ontario and lumber and newsprint employees in British Columbia have not those millions to play with, and some of them will go hungry. “Mr. Bennett was elected on a specious promise of ending unemployment, by Act of Parliament, yet the first consequence of his election is an. act that will take jobs from Canadian workers and make food more difficult to buy for Canadian mouths. “Canada's election harvest is beginning and looks like a sad, sad crop.”.