TRADE WITH CANADA.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1462, 10 June 1912, Page 6

TRADE WITH CANADA.

(By Telejraph—Special Correspondent.) ; Auckland, June !). Tho advantages of reciprocity, of trade between Canada and Australasia were emphasised by .Mr. Thomas Home, a Vancouver merchant, who passed through Auckland on the Zealandia yesterday.

Mr. Ilorno told a reporter that the Canadians were very anxious for reciproity with Australia, lie said that Australian merchants )ud been the pioneers of the Pacific trade with Canada. They had been working it up for 19 years, and it seemed a tremendous pity to loso it now as would inevitably happen if reciprocity was not soon brought about. Australia .should see what Mew Zealand has gained by trading with Canada, said Mr. Home. Tho value of 'butter imported from New Zealand alone, during the months from November to April inclusive, amounted to about JiMO.OOO. Now i Zealand, in addition to having first call 'on the cargo space on account of the subsidy paid to the Canadian-Australian line, also has the benefit of reciprocal arrangement-wiih Canada, under which her butter is admitted at a. half-penny per lb. advantage over that from Australia. Canada's present population is 8,500,000, and Mr. Home pointed out that she is ■unable to supply.her own demands for food products. .