EMPIRE’S BEST CUSTOMER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 575, 30 January 1929, Page 11

EMPIRE’S BEST CUSTOMER

CANADA’S TRADE FOR 1928 £30.000,000 TO THE GOOD (Australian and N.Z. Press Association} (United Service) Reed. 9.5 a.m. OTTAWA, Tuesday. Canada’s total trade for the year 192 S amounted to £519,289.623, an increase of £54,109,636 over 1927. Total exports exceeded imports by £30,265,056. Agricultural products accounted for 50 per cent, of the export trade. The British Umpire was Canada’s best customer, taking goods valued at £109,090,746, an increase of £9,000,000 over the United States, which was the second best customer. From Australia, Canada imported £784.453 worth of goods, and exported £3,254,632 worth. New Zealand sold Canada £1,892,337 worth, and purchased £3,000,245 worth. DAIRYMEN S PROTEST NEW ZEALAND BUTTER IMPORTS TARIFF REFORM WANTED Reed. 10.52 a.m. TORONTO, Tuesday. Following the arrival of the steamer Port Curtis with 110,000 tons of New Zealand butter, bringing the total for the season to 10,500,0001 b.. Mr. Joseph Caulder, president of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Creameries, attacked the treaty. He said that there was an urgent need for an adequate tariff reform for the protection of Canada’s dairying industry. Canada had been brought from the position of an exporter of 25,000,0001 b. of butter annually, to the importer of almost a simitar amount. He attributed this, among other causes, to the treaty with Australia and New Zealand. The treaty had been negotiated with the best intentions in an effort to better the pulp and paper industry. While Canada had progressed greatly since the treaty, the dairying industry and its subsidiary bodies had suffered.