DISCONTENTED DAIRYMEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 217, 2 December 1927, Page 13

DISCONTENTED DAIRYMEN

N.Z. BUTTER IN CANADA DUMPING DUTY SOUGHT REQUEST MEETS DISFAVOUR By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright OTTAWA, Wednesday. The Prime Minister, Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, has replied to the deputation of dairymen which waited on him yesterday and demanded that the trade treaty with Australia be abolished and that a dumping duty be placed on New Zealand butter. Mr. Mackenzie King says: If your request is granted, what will become of trade within the Empire? Why ask for cancellation of the treaty for the sake of a single industry when a modification might do? Yours seems an extraordinary request. In promising consideration of the request the Prime Minister says Parliament is the proper place for a treaty debate. He [ asks the dairymen to submit their ob- j jections to Parliament. In defending the treaty, the Minister of Finance, Hon. .1. A. Robb, says dairymen as a whole are not suffering, as cream and milk are fetching good prices and the markets are good. The average Canadian butter in 1924-25, before the treaty, realised 42 cents a lb. To-day it realises 46 cents. Canadian farmers are not exporting because the prices in Montreal are higher than they are in London. The treaty is helping the other industries. Canada is selling £3,600,000 worth of products to Australia, compared with £1,200,000 worth sold by Australia to Canada, The Minister quotes Canada’s tremendous increase in newsprint exports.-—A. and N.Z.