AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1928, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS

(Australian it N.Z. Cable Association.) CANADIAN KI'iQHvST. OTTAWA. March 0. Tin- immediate termination of the Australian Treaty was denuimled hy a delegation from tli*- Niitional Dairy Council of Canada which met the .Minister ol Kina lice and members of the Cabinet. l/angford, representing the Brmnl and Cakemakors’ Association spoke against the treaty. Mr Uobb promised consideration but tbe opinion here is that the request is not likely to be granted. The argument that butter imports Would depress the market is not entertained by Government statisticians, who deny the volume of imports is such as would aliect the price of the current market.

LIBJSL M ITJON. (Receivod thus day at ILO a.m.) OTTAWA, .March 0. A message Iroiii Cobourg states Geueral Sir Arthur Currie. Commander of the Canadian Corps, is the plaintiff in a suit shortly for fifty thousand dollars damages for alleged libel against W. T. R. Preston and the publisher of “ Port Hope Guide.” The claim arises from an article by Preston dealing with an attack on .Mens just before the Armistice, which he claimed to be an unjustified sacrifice of human life. INDUSTRIAL TREATY. OTTAWA, .March 7. Denounen.g the Treaty as it effects the dairy industry, Darter, Conservative member for Fraser Valley, in the •House argued that Australia had the power to amend the pact which Canada could not. There was no guarantee that Australia would not make the changes affecting paper and canned salmon Ho called the treaty the greatest 'blow the dairy industry had received since.it had been taken by the Minister of Finance in the direction of securing from Australia some new concessions incidental to the treaty, Canada seeks favourable position particularly for lumber items and box shooks. The Government thinks Canadian material should have preference against Sweden and the United States.