EMPIRE 75 



Second Category 



In the second category — a smaller one, our import 

 requirements amounting only to thirty-seven millions — 

 are placed commodities the production of which besides 

 calUng for population requires some thought andplanning. 

 They are, however, products of which all, or very nearly 

 all, could well be supplied by the Dominions. 



Eggs. — Twenty years ago large numbers, amounting 

 annually to £500,000 worth, were sent to the United 

 Kingdom from Canada, who demonstrated her capacity 

 to supply this country with eggs in competition with 

 the rest of the world. Since then her exports to us 

 have dwindled to nothing. The requisite organisation, 

 however, should enable her again to take a place in 

 this considerable industry. Seeing that Russia, which 

 ordinarily sends us most eggs, is an almost equally 

 distant country, Canada should not be at a disad- 

 vantage in the production and shipment of this article. 



Lard. — Canada already supplies us with a consider- 

 able amount of lard, and with attention given to the 

 matter is quite capable of increasing her exports. 

 In Australia, too, it is the case that there is already a 

 large production of lard, absorbed however usually by 

 local requirements, but when that country has had a 

 surplus of the commodity she has been able to export 

 it to us at prices equal in cheapness to those of the rest 

 of the world. 



Oils. — As the three Dominions already send us more 

 than half of our imports of vegetable and animal oils 

 it is obvious that they could increase their contributions 

 of these substances ; of tallow, indeed, we receive from 

 Australia and New Zealand a surplusage which we 

 export. Particularly could the imports of fish oil from 

 the Dominions be increased, since the Dominions Royal 

 Commission report that the Canadian fishing industry 



