Butter Competition

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 681, 5 June 1929, Page 9

Butter Competition

MADE MORE ACUTE BY U. 5. TARIFF LESSON FROM NEW ZEALAND (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) Reed. 9.20 a.m. SYDNEY, Today. At the annual meeting of dairy factory managers and secretaries, the president, Mr. W. Fackender, declared that as the proposed new United States tariff would drive Canadian dairy produce off that, market, naturally Canada would in future ship more heavily to London. This would directly affect both New Zealand and Canada, making competition still more acute for Australia. He urged Australian dairy farmers to adopt more scientific methods, corpping for ensilage and top-dressing, following closely the lines of New Zealand farmers, and thereby be prepared for eventualities. Mr. Meares described the great strides which the butter industry had made in New Zealand, also measures where by this had been attained.

HIT AT TRADE TREATIES CANADA, NEW ZEALAND, AND AUSTRALIA KEEN DEBATE AT OTTAWA (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) ( United. Service) OTTAWA, Tuesday,' In the House of Commons Mr. M. C. Senn, a Conservative member, attacked the trade treaties with Australia and New Zealand. He maintained. that the Canadian dairy industry had suffered severely. An agreement to ruin this industry was too high a price to pay for encouraging inter-Empire trade. Mr. Senn advocated steps to obtain better terms from both Australia and New Zealand. In the course of the debate, for the first time since the treaty came into operation, the blouse heard a suggestion advanced that New Zealand might reasonably be dropped from the arangement. This was the suggestion of Mr. Grote Stirling, Conservative member for Yale, British Columbia. “I strongljA support the treaty,” he said. “It is of great benefit to Canada, But the trouble has been created by extending the same provision to New Zealand, which is so extensively engaged in the dairy industry. The Canadian dairy farmers are paying for the benefits of the treaty, and it is for the Government to consider the elimination of New Zealand, while preserving the basic treaty.”

While there was no direct reply to Mr. Stirling’s plea, nor any resolution proposed by the five speakers, two Ontario farmers opposed the treaty generally. The Ministers of Finance and Immigration, Mr. J. A. Robb and .Mr. R. Forke, supported the treaty, Mr. Robb quoted figures to show that the dairyman was getting higher prices now than ever before. He said that while butter was imported at 45 cents a lb, the equivalent on the sale of milk was 55 cents a lb.