CANADIAN DAIRYMEN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20013, 2 December 1927, Page 7

CANADIAN DAIRYMEN

REQUEST TO PREMIER Cancellation of Trade Treaty With Australia “AN EXBAORDINABY CLAIM (By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.) Received Dec. 1, 9.20 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) OTTAWA, Dec. 1. The Prime Minister (the Hon. W. L. McKenzie King) asked the dairymen who demanded the abolition of the trade with Australia: “What becomes of ‘Trade within the Empire’? Why ask for cancellation for the sake of a single industry when modification might do? Your’s seems an extraordinary request. ’ ’ Mr King, in promising consideration, declared that Parliament was the proper place for a treaty debate, and asked the dairymen to submit their objections there. Mr J. A. Robb, defending the treaty, declared that the dairymen as a whole were not suffering and; claimed milk was fetching good prices in good markets. The average price of Canadian butter in 1924-25, before the treaty, was 42 cents a. pound, but now it was 46 cents-

Canadians were not exporting because Montreal’s prices were higher than London’s, and the treaty was helping other industries in Canada which was selling 18,000,000 dollars’ worth of produce to Australia’s 6,000,OUO dollars ■worth to Canada. Mr Robb cited; Canada’s tremendous increase in the exports of newsprint. The Canadian motor exports were losing by Australia raising the tariff, while British preference was undisturbed.