N.Z. BUTTER

Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1928, Page 8

N.Z. BUTTER

POSITION IN CANADA. VANCOUVER, October If). The dairy interests of Ontario and Quebec: provinces of Canada are still chafing under the severe competition waged by New Zealand butter manufactures owing to the continued arrivals of large quantities of blitter from “down under,” and arguments are still being advanced to withdraw the conditions of the trade treaty in force between Canada and New Zealand as regards importations of dairy produce. Some of the Dominion newspapers are inclined to support tjie importation of New Zealand butter and the “Manitoba Free Press” of Winnipeg in a recent issue had the following comment on the subject:—“ln tlio election of 1926 and at various times since that date, the Canadian-Australian treaty has been attacked by the Conservative party in Canada on the ground that it was extending privileges and benefits to certain Canadian manufacturing industries at the expense of tlio Canadian butter producer. . . . In view of the. fact that we are not making enough butter to supply our own market, and will have to import 15,000.000 or 20.000.000 pounds this year, it will be difficult to convince the Canadian people that the Australian and New Zealand treaties have put the Canadian butter producer out of business.” The subject was touched upon in Winnipeg in a speech delivered by Hon. It. B. Bennett, Leader of the Conservative opposition party of Canada, when he dealt in great detail with tlio exports and imports of Canada, especially those from the United States, and the development of the Dominion’s resources.' and he declared the remedy for the problems of to-day was “equal opportunity and fair competition.” “That is what you ask in your individual lives. What you are asking, I ask for Canada, I ask equal opportunity and fair competition. Fair competition against New Zealand butter; fair competition against the United States. I ask nothing more—nothing less. Give us equal opportunity and we will heat the world, as we always have,” said Mr. Bennett, Canada’s former Minister of Justice. In butter, he asserted, there is unfair competition, just as there was in fruit, vegetables, implements and steel. 'Flic United States provides fair competition for its industries, and other countries are doing the same, he said. He objected to produce from other countries being brought into Canada when that same produce could he manufactured in the Dominion by Canadians.