The Guardian. And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. THURSDAY, JANUARY 8th, 1924. DAIRY COMPETITION WITH CANADA.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1925, Page 2

The Guardian. And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. THURSDAY, JANUARY Bth, 1924. DAIRY COMPETITION WITH CANADA.

Some of the Canadian dairymen are somewhat worried anent the growing success of New Zealand bulker importations in Eastern Canada (says the Vancouver correspondent of the Auckland “Star”), and they fear the domestic trade will be materially affected by Hie threat of further large rbinrnems which are expected in the Conadlan provinces shortly from the An-

tiimdcs. The Canadian operators freely admit the superiority of the New Zealand article, and its increasing favour with the consuming public, but they do imt view ilie fill lire of the butler business with any measure n! opt iinisin, judging In- repealeil w ajls el dissatisfaction beard in the columns e| seme <il tlie daily | a pel's ill Kastern Canada. In a. wind, the average Canadian daiivinan is Icing leminded I llal nut lung less llian “ernuniiiic j suicide” is staling him in the face, consentient upon the commencement of Ihe a I winter importation of New Zealand butter. A letter prominently displayed mi the editorial page of flic .Montreal ‘‘Daily Star” of November 21st., and < upturned ‘‘Keouomic Sni>'ide” from the pen r|' Mr I*. C. Ann-

strung, of Sweetslnirg, Quebec, says: ‘ Ihe creamery operators in I lie eastern townships are advising tin* farmers who supply Ihem that owing to the commencement of the annual winter importation of New Zealand butter the price of butter-fat. will drop. As a result. the farmers of this area will assuredly buy less of the products of our lactories. and this will accentuate unemployment. Many farmers, now at the end of their resmirees. will finally alianiton the struggle anil move in desperation to the city or to the Cnited States. Politically, the free traders whe.se principles applied to the import of foodstuffs which we should produce in Canada, have brought this absurd tragedy to pass—will now capitalise the result by explaining to the farmer that he i.s being exploited by the city with its protected industry, and that, since lie is ruined, he should bring

the city down in ruins, ton. On the whole, when one regards n country incalculably rich in mi i:<> ra I and soil wealth importing. its fond and its fuel, one is irresistibly driven to the conclusion that its inhabitants are possessed of a mania for economic suicide.” Some of the American newspapers, which have been discussing the subject of Xcw Zealand and Australian butter finding its wav into the I'llited States are disposed to make much of the indisputable advantage possessed by the countries under the Southern Cross climatically, and reference is made to the fact that dairying conditions are more favourable than in the I'nited ■States or Canada, where hard winters are experienced in some months of the year. Furthermore, the fact that stock grazes all the year round in Australia is another significant joint .str nsriv emphasised by the American ai I Canadian comniontator.s on the subject of the “menace’’ of Antipodean butter dominating the prices on the North American continent shortly. The “Lowell Courier Citizen.” in alluding I to the controversy, said in a recent | issue: “A prospect of increased impnrtations of butter from Australia. New Zealand and the Argentine is indicated in a report of the I'nited States Department of Agriculture on dairy conditions throughout the world, ’llii.s is an announcement that directly concerns New England. Simple people among us were .surprised, when some months ago shipments of New Zealand butter wore landed in Boston. More butter, we now learn, is likely to come front the same far distant source, tor the facilities for carrying on this overseas trade are fast being developed. The advantages of the Australasian farmers are as previously stated. Their stock grazes in the open all the teat through. They have no such winters n.s the agriculturists of Northern New England and \\ isconsin must contend against. They have already limit up a huge European business via tne refrigerator ships.” At the Belloc ille district annual gathering of Ontario dairymen. Mr John F.llioit. manager of the Standard Bank of Belleville, speaking of the cheese industry and overseas trade, said lie had it on good Authority that the host Canadian cheese was superior in quality to that made in New Zealand, and that, if all | cheese exported was of the quality of thftt wnt out from the Belleville s3is-

triet Canada would control the British market. '‘Can'adin'ij,” ho declared, “taught the New Zealanders how to make cheese.” About three hundred Canadian dairymen were present n’t this gathering, as well as many provincial officials of Ontario.