AMERICAN ITEMS
AUSTRALIAN TRADE TREATY
REVISION DEMANDED
[United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]
/Received this rlav at 8.30. a.m.) OTTAWA. March 13.
A demand for the revision of the Australian Treaty to restore duties on meats in force before the agreement was negotiated was urged upon by the Dominion Tariff Board by Alberta shoe]) breeders, •■who claimed there had been a depression in sheep raising, since the Treaty became effective. They stated there was a decrease of sixty-four thousand' sheep last year pnd breeders were being forced out oi business. The chairman. (Mr W. H. Mooref, replied that while Alberta sheep si lowed a decrease other provinces showed the Hocks were increasing. British Columbia was exposed to the effects of the Treaty to the greatest degree, yet sheep there showed an increase. He suggested the remedy was the mar keting Act not a change in the treaty. Canadian mutton should be stamped to distinguish it" ! from the imported product.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1930, Page 5
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