TRADE WITH ANTIPODES.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20176, 3 March 1931, Page 10

TRADE WITH ANTIPODES.

/' '.V '<»,♦ " , 'f'4 CANADIAN PRESS COMMENT. (ISOIC OCT O** COBRBSrOJSBMT.) ~ ' ' j SAN FRANCISCO, February 5. Commenting oft .Empire trade, tlio Windsor Border .Cities "Star" says: "Tkerij 1 are' certain things that Australia ' and' New' Zealand must import and there are' commodities that they must export in order to pay for the imports. * It is merely iv-matter of exchange. Butter happened- to he New Zealand's chief export product arid its arrival in Canada in fairly substantial . quantities /much, diseatisfwtlon' in our own dairy circles; much, in. fact, that the 1 treaty was cancelled. If, however, "we expect to keep selling our goods—automobiles, for instance-?—to Australia and New Zealand, it is rather difficult to j see how, .the Antipodean countries can purchase them without sending their products to Canada.'* ' On the same day "the Regina *'Star', a Conservative organ, under the captionl, "Tradeswith Australia," wroter "Australia can deal \very j much more extensively with- Canada. In ,'1929 out of total purchases of. lumber from the Pacific Coast, amounting to 15,260,000 dollars, only 4,660,000. dollars came, from Canada. The Remainder was shipped in from Washington and Oregon. There is no reason, why Australia should give ,75 per cent, of her lumber purchase?' to the, United, States. When fihfe can buy 'the same quality of lumber from British Columbia. In return for this trad© gift to, the United States Australia does not receive a single cent of preference from Americaii industry."

„ Quality of New Zealand Cheese. < Frequent reference to the quality of New Zealand .cheese has been chronicled recently in discussions of gatherings under the auspices of dairymen in. eastern parts of Canada, and in Montreal at the eighteenth annual convention of the Canadian Produce Aspociai ' 3 history and value of what was described as an 1 ancient dish, mentioned in the Bible as early as the Boob of Samuel, and'afterwards as a Kjeat delicacy, was outlined by P. W. McLagan. ."Canada's exportation of cheese reached its peak in 1903, when two million',boxes went through Mori'tWs cheese'' , authority*' ' that time cheese has steadily aeclincd as an export, until in, 1930 less inan on© milljon boxes were ©jcported." Canada's chpese afrroys has been of a § Ile said . but New Zealand ana other countries were improving' the grade, and' the Dominion- should keep SSU hSSSJT rtm a