CANADA’S EMPIRE TRADE

Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1930, Page 9

CANADA’S EMPIRE TRADE

AUSTRALIAN NEGOTIATIONS

GREATER RECIPROCITY PROBABLE,

DIFFICULTY WITH NEW ZEALAND.

By Telegraph—Press Assn,—Copyright. Ottawa, Dee. 1.

Back from the Imperial Conference, the Minister of Trade, Mr. H. S. Stevens, stated the Australian Minister of Customs, Mr. P,. Moloney, would arrive here ip the middle of the month to negotiate for a new Australian treaty. The effect of the new pact would be for Canada to buy more from Australia, thus removing the four-to?one advantage held by Canada. Canadians were now buying many articles from- foreign countries that could be supplied by Australia. The same applied to New Zealand, but negotiations with that country were more difficult because of the higher duty on butter,

The Russian five-year plan was succeeding all along the line, and Canadians were doing their country a disservice by pretending otherwise. The Soviet would soon be a live competitor with Canada.

The failure of the Imperial Conference was due to/Britain’s disturbed political situation, Mr. Stevens said. II

would have been better to have held an election in Britain first to produce definite proposals for the conference. Moro protection would greatly aid Britain.