EMPIRE MARKET

Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1929, Page 1

EMPIRE MARKET

CANADIAN FEELING

VANCOUVER, June 27

Aside from the hostile reception extended Australian and Now Zealand products in various parts of Canada, principally the importation of butter, there is a growing .feeling that if mutual trading is to exist to any extent the business ,men of Canada must adopt the suggestions of Premier Stanley Bruce, of Australia, and ex-Premier Coates, of New Zealand, when those two statesmen visited Canada a few years ago. Both gentlemen strongly advised Canadians to patronise Antipodean products in greater volume in order to preserve a "balance of trade. Statistics, however, show that this important advice was not heeded, and both Australia and New Zealand are far in the background in respect to an equality of interchange of national goods. ' The Times,” a Liberal newspaper of British Columbia, under- the caption of “Trade with Australia,” had tho following trenchant editorial recently: “If we are to sell more to Australia we must he prepared to buy more from her. Trade cannot be built upon a selfish basis. Under present conditions Canada has an advantage over her sister Dominion of three to one in dollars. But if wo purchase many of the * Articles from Australia which we now purchase from the United States, the trading exchange between this country and the Antipodes soon would grow to considerable proportions, to the mutual advantage of both these parts of the Empire.” On tho other side of the picture another Liberal organ, the “Halifax Herald,” discussing wider markets, stated: “It is ‘hauling coals to Newcastle’ with a vengeance when apples are imported into this Province from half-way around the world. But there, it is—a cargo of NeAv Zealand anplcs will arrive in Halifax this month for distribution throughout Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario. And we are still hearing talk about the need for ‘wider markets,’ when Antipodean butter and apples can be freighted that distance and sold here in our own market right under oui very noses!”