SHEEP BREEDERS HIT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 921, 14 March 1930, Page 10

SHEEP BREEDERS HIT

CANADA BLAMES TREATY Jlecd. 10 a.m. OTTAWA, Thursday. A demand for a revision of the Australian treaty to restore duties on meats in force before the agreement Was negotiated, was urged upon the Dominion Tariff Board by the Alberta Sheep breeders, who alleged that there has been a depression in sheep raising since the treaty became effective. Flocks decreased by 64,000 sheep last year, and breeders were being forced out of business. The Chairman, Mr. W. H. Moore, replied that while Alberta sheep showed ci decrease, other provinces showed that the flocks were increasing. British Columbia was the most exposed .to the effects of the treaty, yet the sheep there showed an increase. He suggested the remedy was a Marketing Act and not a change in the treaty. Canadian mutton should he stamped to distinguish it from the imported product. BRITAIN’S TRADE RETURNS LONDON, Wednesday. The Board of Trade returns {or February show that the imports into Britain were valued at £88,705.000, a decrease of £2,640.000 compared with February last year. The value of exports was £51.925,000, a decrease of .i. 3,740,000, and of re-exports £8.646,000. a decrease of £1,654,000. The principal decreases were:—lmports: Grain and flour, £1,617,000; food and drink, non-dutiable, £1,707,000 dutiable, £853,000; raw cotton, £1,042,000: raw wool, £2,214.000. Exports; Iron and steel, and manufactures thereof, £847,000; cotton yarns and manufactures £1,833.000; woollen and worsted and manufactures thereof, £646,000. The principal increases were;—lmports: Meat, £1,337,000; iron, steel | an «i manufactures thereof, £668,000. r