N.Z. BUTTER

Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1929, Page 6

N.Z. BUTTER

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VANCOUVER, July 31

The Conservative Leader, Air Bennett, addressing a meeting at West Vancouver on Tuesday night, said regarding the extension of, favoured njgr tion treatment in New Zealand: “Four years ago, before tnere was any suel) arrangement, our dairy farmers supplied our butter requirements, and we exported some. Last year as the result of the "action of our Government we bad to import twenty million pounds of butter, principally from New Zealand—4s cents’'per-.pound was paid for this butter. I want this 45 cents here—not in New. Zealand. That i,s the difference between the Liberals and myself. Canada' bad IOI.OOU fewer cows to-day, as the result of butter coming' from New Zealand. Suppose it happened you could not get butter from New Zealand, how would our needs we supplied, since we. ha ye 101.000 fewer cows. This' country would be. in a state of economic dependence. You can never make a country if you allow the glut production of another country to be loaded into this Dominion and destroy our own industry.” The only’ way to succeed was to develop Canada for the Canadians. Conservatives had been accused of being high protectionists. Conservatives had never stood for high protection, but the protection proposed by the Conservatives was that which would give the Canadians fair competition.