EMPIRE TRADE

Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1929, Page 4

EMPIRE TRADE

CANADIAN OBJECTIONS. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. ) OTTAWA,' June 4. Attacking the Canadian trade treaty with Australia and New Zealand in the Canadian House of Commons, Mr M. C. Senn (Conservative) insisted that the Canadian dairy industry had r. suffered severely. He said the agree- ' ment would ruin this industry. It was too high a price to pay for enmii’iigiiig iiitcr-i.mpue tr..uo, ne auvocated that steps be taken to obtain hotter terms from both Australia and New Zealand. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) OTTAWA, June 4. For the first time since the Treaty was in operation, the House heard a suggestion advanced that New Zealand might reasonably be dropped from the Treaty. This was a. suggestion of Grote Sterling (Conservative member for B.C. constituency of Yale, one of the largest in the Dominion). I strongly support the Treaty, lie said, li is of great benefit to Canada, but any trouble has been created by extending the same provisions to New Zealand, which is so extensively en--d : n the dairying industry. Canada’s dairy farmers are paying for the .jc neats of the treaty and it is up to the Government to consider New Zealand’s elimination, while preserving ..ne basic treaty. / While there was no direct reply to Sterling’s plea, nor any resolution proposed by five speakers, two Ontario farmers opposed the treaty generally. Ministers Ilobb and For Ice supported itie treaty. Mr Robb quoted figures to show that dairymen were getting higher prices now than ever before. He added that while butter is imported at .45 cents per pound, the equivalent on the sale of milk is 52 cents per pound.