NATIONAL DAIRY COUNCIL

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1929, Page 5

NATIONAL DAIRY COUNCIL

DAIRYMEN AND LUMBERMEN CONFER. Press Association—By Electric T olograph—C i pyri gli t). (Received this day at 9. a.m.) VANCOUVER, February 31. Officials id' the National Dairy Council met representatives of the Lumber .Manufacturers Association to-day t; discuss ways and means of securing relief from Federal Government hardships, which arc said to he a direct result of the Australian Treaty. Mr Aird Fluvelle, lor the lumbermen, said Australia gave California preference over British Columbia cedar and that the United States subsidised tile freight boats by means of mail contracts,’ so the United States shippers practically* shut British Columbia manufacturers from the Australian market. Flavcllc suggested Ottawa should give a subsidy, of a shilling per hundred superficial hoard feet on the lumber shipped to Australia and that the. Commonwealth should he asked to put Canada on an equality with California. V

In the matter of the tariff Mr .T. A Cnulder (dairymen) said the dairy iat,crests did not oppose the treaty on principle, because it worked out to their disadvantage. Opinions expressed at the conference indicated the dairymen thought Canada’s tariff should be raised to seven c'mts a pound with three cents preference to Australia. A further conference will he held with representatives of pulp and paper and fishing interests in an attempt to pave the way (for a non-political review of the trade relations between the two cniiiitries.