THE N.Z. TREATY
PREMIER KING’S WARNING
TUnited Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]
(Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) VANCOUVER., July 8.
Referring to the agitation against the New Zealand Treaty, the Premier (Mr King) in an election address 'issued fa warning (that- itlie Uovernment was not going to abrogate the Treaty to throw away a great Empire market. He riaid:—“Let 'us pause before we make dissension with a sister Dominion that may cost us a valuable market. We are just on the threshold of trade with that country.” The situaibion had changed siriOe) the Treaty was negotiated, when both Canada and New Zealand were butter exporters. New Canadian exports are practically nil due to the fuct that farmers are chiefly interested in grain production. The Treaty change was only requested with a view to revising it to partly meet the demands ’of Canadian dairying interests.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1930, Page 5
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