OUR TRADE TO CANADA

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1860, 20 September 1913, Page 8

OUR TRADE TO CANADA

ONE THAT WILL GROW.

THE OPINION IN PARLIAMENT. I ■■■■■■■

The subject of the Vancouver service was briefly discussed in the House , of Representatives last evoning. members who spoke agreeing that the. trade with Cinada offered valuable possibilities, and should :be fostered. The Prime Minister , read a letter from the Union Company regardjng the Vancouver service (which appears olsev.here), and remarked that'he was glad to bo able to say that though tlie.Union Company would not be able to reduce jtho freight, at-least until tho contract timo had. expired, they. ■ wore making every'effort/to cope with tho demand foi space for butter to Vancouver. It was evident that the markets both there ; and at San Francisco". wero oapablo of much development,'. : i and-woiild do valuable in tlie future.

Sir Joseph Ward- said that tho development of New Zealand's trado with Vancouver was no more than ho had anticipated. For many years he was himself driving away at the opening up aiul development, of this trade , with Canada. . His Government appointed a Trades Commissioner, and ' sent him to Vancouver'on behalf of ovory class of merchant' and trader of this country, but not to engage in -trade 1 there. ■He would, Tliko to ; '. know • why that (. Commissioner's, services . had been dispensed with P. . He. was sure this Dominion was 1 n'ot"going'-to got into the position of-one party putting men out of office because another party which had gone o\it ,of ppwer ; lujd put,him in. Many men ..in the trade'had expressed themselves' as - strongly, against this action,, and -many trading in Canada had told him,; that their whole .trado was in l consequence of■ the activity of the Commissioner., Tlie feeling on his part was'that'because lie was a friend of his ;(Sir Joseph Ward's) his services had bfeeri"clispensed' with v Mr. Massoy: You don't seriously sug-gest-that? Sir Joseph" Ward added that if the Commissioner hild been withdrawn for a pood reason he should have been replaced. He considered that a representative in Vancouver was necessary because all other countries had one there. ' Tho New Zealand officer had done most excellent work**there, and ho could not understand why ho had been withdrawn. Mr.C; A. : Wilkinson said that when the contract was renewed the name of the lino Bbould be'altered. In Vancouver the steamers were advertised as those of the "Canadian-Australian" 'line. Considering that New Zealand paid the bulk of-tne subsidy at this, end, the name was not the right one.. The trade was expanding so rapidly that it would be a mistake to enter into a contract for any long period. Tho Prime Minister said that ho was lorry to hear,it suggested by tho member for Awarua -that tho services or, the trado representative in Canada had been dispensed with oh, account of . politics. He did not know this man, and did not, know his politics. Quite a' number of.' complaints regarding tho man- had come to the Government, however. : It was'intended to appoint another trade representative. The Government had a permanent representative at Vancouver—a business maii there. Sir'J. Ward: Ho was there all the time. ' '

Mr., Ma'asey said that it. was proposed to'appoint a man who -would represent New Zealand at the forthcoming San Francisco Exposition, and look after the.: interests, ot this : country in Oanadarr-j,-,-;rr- • ' . . .