CANADA’S TARIFF

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1931, Page 5

CANADA’S TARIFF

BRITISH COLUMBIA UP IN ARMS. [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] OTTAWA. June 11. Tn the House to-day, Air A. W. Neill (Independent) said the five cents j bounty on export wheat contained in the Budget would simply increase the unfair discrimination between cvxport and domestic freight- rates in British Columbia. It would mean that Brii tisli Columbia would have to pay live cents more per bushel than the exporters. Already some British Columbia buyers were talking of sending an agent to Australia, as they estimated they could buy wheat there and lay it down for less money than they could get from Alberta. Tho present Government had fooled away tho New Zealand market. Alien that Dominion removed the British preference benefits, it, injured British Columbia fishermen's preference of a dollar and a quarter per case on certain kinds of fish, which had been stopped. This was the direct result of the eight cents tariff on butter. The Government had been warned from many sides that a tariff of four cents was sufficient. It must accept the consequences of the eight cents rate. FARMERS GIVE UP HOLDINGS. OTTAWA. June 12. A message I'l-om Saskatoon says, that driven otii by drought Irani farms where they have im(, had crops since 1928, farmers have started trekking north from southern Saskatchewan, abandoning lands and debts, driving live stock with them, and camping along the route.