AUSTRALIA’S TRADE WITH CANADA

Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1929, Page 3

AUSTRALIA’S TRADE WITH CANADA

v United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.- -Copyright.) (Received this clay at 8 a.m.) VANCOUVER, May 28. R. A. Haynes, Australian commer-, cial representatives, addressing the Canadian Club, said the bald figures of the totals of the Australian trade with Canada do not disclose what underlies them. One item, sugar, makes all the difference in the world to the trade we have done with you. Take this i.tcm out of the total and we find, under the trade agreement, Australia started the trade under new conditions with a total of hundred and ten thousand dollars worth (. 1 goods being sold in Canada. annually under the agreement, hi the third year oi the agreement these items reached the aggregate of a million and a-lialf dollars. In the current year there will be a further increase in meat, canned fruits, gelatine and other items. Thanks to the agreement, Australia has captured th. market for currants and is gradually establishing trade in sultanas. Already this season Canada has bought twice as much as she bought in 1927. Frost in California has given us the opportunity of selling canned peaches. In 1909 the total of sales of Australian produce to Canada amounted to four hundred thousand dollars. Last year it was fifty-eight hundred thousand dollars. That, however, is only sufficient to place Australia on a parity with Switzerland. Your sales to Australia have received a setback recently, but are double what they were twenty years ago. They can be increased by proper merchandising. ■ Referring to the contentious point of sale of Australian butter in Canada, the speaker said: “I make it clear Australia does not want to injure Canadian dairying or any other industry. If your costs are increased by local conditions, it is not for me to niaxe suggestions, only I must icel disappointed that something which does not affect our selling prices to von in any degree precludes our selling you more than 216 tons of butter in a year, when your total importations exceed 6,000 tons.