CANADA MISSES TRADE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 745, 19 August 1929, Page 9

CANADA MISSES TRADE

OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED BY AUSTRALIA UNITED STATES BENEFITS (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) VANCOUVER, Saturday. The general manager for Australia and New Zealand of the C. C. Wakefield Company, Limited, Mr. C. L. Westcott, stated in an interview that Australia was more than interested in Empire trade. She was prepared to meet Canada more than half-way in inter-Dominion commerce. The Government and business men of Canada had not quite realised that. The United States, in spite of the high charges for cablegrams, had taken the lead in selling products in the East. As an instance of the progressiveness of the United States. Mr. Westcott quoted America’s Pacific Coast exports of timber to Australia and New Zealand. Firms in the United States were in a position to lay down wooden roadways in the Antipodes at a price Canada’s contractors could not meet. There was no reason why Australia should buy in the United States when she could obtain the same material in Canada, except that Canada was not looking for business. Mr. Westcott said he believed manufacturers must have their domestic market fairly well protected in order to keep their plants going. He favoured the Australian trade treaty, and said he thought Canadian dairymen were opposed to it because New Zealand and Australian butter was a more uniform product and produced under stricter co-operative methods than in Canada.

Australia was shipping great quantities of her products to the Orient because the Commonwealth had gone after business there. Mr. Westcott said he could not help feeling that Canada should do the same thing. This interview is published in the Vancouver “Sun,” a leading Liberal newspaper, under the headline, “Wako Up Canada,” in large type.