TRADE TREATY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 2 December 1927, Page 9

TRADE TREATY

CANADA & AUSTRALIA. DEFENCE. Ottawa, Nov. 30. The Premier asked tne dairymen who demanded the abolition of the trade treaty with Australia: “What becomes of trade within the Empire? Why ask tor cancellation for the sake of a single industry, when modifiication might do? Yours seems to be'an extraordinary request.” The Premier, in promising consideration, declared that Parliament was the proper place for a treaty debate, and asked the dairymen to submit objections there. Mr. Robb, defending the treaty, declared that dairymen as a whole were no: suffering. Cream and milk was fe ig good prices in good markets. 'I average price of Canadian butter in 1924-25, before the treaty, was 42 cents per pound; it was now 46 cents. Canadians were not ex;x>rting because Montreal prices were higher than London. The treaty was helping other industries in Canada, which was selling 18.000,000 dollars' worth of products to Australia’s 6,000,000 to Canada. Mr. Robb cited Canada’s tremendous icrease in exports of newsprint. Canadian motor exports are losing bv Australia raising the tariff, while is undisturbed.— (A. and N.Z. )