"COALS TO NEWCASTLE"

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1933, Page 8

"COALS TO NEWCASTLE"

CANADA'S SURPLUS BUTTER

MARKET IN NEW ZEALAND !

That New Zealand is not alone in her endeavour to find new markets for her dairy produce is indicated in an extract from a Canadian newspaper Just received by the: Department of Industries and Commerce. A Press telegram containing a novel suggestion for the disposal of Canada's surplus butter is dated "Vemon, July 25," and reads as follows: —

"Some of Canada's surplus butter stocks should be sold to New Zealand, declare the board of directors of the Okanagan Valley Co-operative Creamery. They have today requested the Minister1 of Trade and Conimorce- at Ottawa to try to arrange for a shipment of Canadian butter to New Zealanad in trade for goods not produced by Canadian farmers. Charles Patten, of Armstrong, president of the Okanagan Association, states the increase in Canadian storage stocks o£ butter, which amounts to 20 per cent./more than the- five-yeax average, will not have a depressing effect on the butter market if a large cargo is shipped to New Zealand. Mr. B. Coltart, vice-presi-dent of the Okauagan dairymen, suggested that New Zealand lumber or fish might Be taken in exchange." Apparently reports of'; tho recent quota discussions in London have not yet reached the Okanagan dairy farmers, who are asking the Minister of Trade and Commerce to- embark on a policy of sending. coals to Newcastle. Obviously, also, the fact that New Zealand exported butter to Canada to the-: value of approximately £.2,000,000 in] 1930, and imported last year some £56,000 worth of fish and £10,000 of I timber from that Dominion, has escaped j their attention. I