EMPIRE DAIRY FARM
N.Z. Supplies Record Butter Quantity to Britain CHEESE IMPORTS PALL . -v (Received 23, 8.45 a.m.") LONDON, July 22. The Imperial Economic Oommitteo statistics for United Kingdom butter imports for 1936 record a total of 9,750,000 hundredweights of which 53 per cent. are from the Empire, a reduction of four per cent. compared with 1935 due to smaller Australian shipments. New Zealand 's proportion was the highest on record and accounted for 29 per cent. of the total imports. The increase in prices resulted in only a slight deeline in consumption which is estimated at 24.8 pounds per head compa^d with 25.2 in 1935. Cheese imports were the lowest since 1932. New Zealand 's share of the total was 63 per cent. Egg imports were the largest since 1931, but the Empire supplied only 19 per cent. compared with 24- per cent. in 1935. e The Empire supplied the higest proportion of bacon imports on record, namely 24 per cent.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 159, 23 July 1937, Page 5
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