CANADIAN-AUSTRALIAN TREATY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18407, 13 June 1925, Page 16

CANADIAN-AUSTRALIAN TREATY.

• • QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT. (BY CABLE—MESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT.) (austp.alian and n.z. cable association.) (Received June lJth, 9.30 p.m.) OTTAWA, June 11. Attempts by members of both the Conservative and Progressive parties in tho House of Commons to-day. to secure information relative to the Australian Treaty, resulted in little, except a statement by .Mr Robb. (Minister of Immigration) that certain trade interests, both in - Australia and on the Continent-of America; were doing their best to create divisions and prevent tho Treaty from .being consummated. , .

IVtr Caldwell (Progressive) said New Brunswick business interests complained that their business was dragging, due to the uncertainty over the Treaty, the consummation of which would be very. advantageous to fishcanners, for example.' Be urged the Government to take power to complete the Treaty as soon as the negotiations were finished, even if the House were not assembled. ' Mr Meighan said apparently everyone in • the United States, Australia, and elsewhere, knew of and was permitted to say what they liked, about tho Treaty, but the Parliament of Canada was not even allowed to know what Mr Hobb's attitude was towards the 75 per oent. clause. He urged Mr Robb to say what was lidding the Treaty up. After- Mr Robb's ; statement, as n.bo!ve, Mr Caldwell repudiated tho suggestion that members of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association or Progressives were opposing the Treaty. How could they, when they did not know what was in it?