AUSTRALIA AND CANADA.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12894, 5 February 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIA AND CANADA.

LEAKAGE AMONG OFFICIALS.

United Pms Association—Per Electric

Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, February 3. The officers of the Customs Department are nnable to account for the news reaching Canada that Australian Customs concessions . should be. granted to Canada, and that the disadvantages regarding the entrainment of goods from the eastern side of .the Dominion to lifted. Sir W. J. Lyne only yesterday sanctioned the arrangement under which goods f.o.b. on the eastern "border, and) f.o.b. at Vancouver, are now to be equaLK [The message which came to hand from London and was published by us on Saturr day] stated:—" Satisfaction is -expressed at Australia's Customs concession in removing* the), discrimination against the Vancouver route."] , j _ ' ,;& PQMCY MEETS APPROVAL, •> - ' OTTAWA. February 2. ''. '■ X£v Preston, Canadian Commissioner of Emigration, in an interview, said he wel- j coined Australia into the field of emigratiojai He hoped -to see the creation of an linjijjrial Emigration Department, handling theijproblem in* the interests of the whole, empire. At the date of his appointment Canada was receiving 12£ per cent, of the Britons going to North America; now Canada received upwards of 50 per cent. There was ample scope in Australia in the same direction.