A CANADIAN VIEW.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 50, 29 January 1932, Page 12

A CANADIAN VIEW.

CANADA AND NEW ZEALAND. Meeting on neutral ground at Honolulu, representatives of the governments of New Zealand and Canada have been seeking to bring into existence a new trade treaty mutually satisfactory to both Dominions, Hon. H. H. Stevens, Canadian Minister of Trade and Commerce, and Hon. W. Downie Stewart, representing the New Zealand Government, were the men to whom the task was entrusted. While in Honolulu Mr Stevens also had in mind the matter of plans for increasing trade with the Fiji Islands, which 7 buy almost nothing from Canada, although Canada imports from them goods worth £600,000 a year. Pursuing also its campaign for business in. South America the Dominion government has entered into an arrangement with Brazil under which Canadian goods enter that country under the minimum tariff, while the intermediate schedule is granted Brazilian products imported to Canada. . Trade between Canada and New Zealand has suffered sharp reduction since ’ the Canadian Government put a stop to heavy importations of. butter on. the ground that the interest of Canadian farmers suffered thereby. The difficulty which faced Mr Stewart and Mr Stevens was to select preferences which will give substantial advantages to both Dominions without injuring any dohiestic industry of either, and sufficient progress was made in preliminary negotiations by mail and cable to assure some practical result from the conference.