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WELLINGTON NEWS

DANISH BUTTER PLAN

..-■v \ . ', *■ i Correspondent.) /• • H WELLINGTON, Aug. 29. New Zealand ..daily farmers will learn with interest that .Danish State Ministry’s Committee for ther Advancement' of 'Export Trad© is about to initiate a new scheme to’.increase thp sale of Danish butter in ,London and the.south of England by introducing export butter in packets. A writer in the London. “ Times ” says:—“ The committee urges that Denmark must exert herself move in the matter of propaganda .in England, where some dissatisfaction has ; been expressed as

regards the selling of butter subject.to the Copenhagen quotation It is stated that the practice in regard to this should be revised. Wih inference to;the sale of Danish butter in packets, the manager of the State Experimental Daily favours the plan of exporting the butter,, in casks and packing it at the place of. consumption under Danish control. There would therefore be a number of pack* ing establishments in a number of large English cities. •• The report recommends close co-opera-tion between producers and exporters in the rational exploitation of old arid new markets by establishment of sale* bureaux and agencies,., by the opening of propaganda shops for Danish butter, and by other means to keep traders advised about the production and 'exr port of Lur branded butter. (“ lyprv”. is the Danish Government brand marie.) ; It is further j-ecomineiided that an actual export quotation shall he fixed at Copenhagen every week and that all the dairy farmers shall paysmall regular contributions to propaganda funds. : ' It is worth noting in connection with this scheme that at present there 'is very litte difference in English markets

between the values of Danish butter f and finest New Zealand, Australian aiid Canadian butter. Last year England received 108,038 tons of butter from Denmark. In point of quality the Dominions have in recent years made notable strides, and soipe time ago New Zealand adopted the plan of marketing a large proportion of her best butter in packets. It cannot be .doubted that the Danes have felt this competition. •• WORLD SHIPPING.

Britain’s/proportion of the- world’s mercantile marine is not what it was .in pre-war days. To-day competitors can boast a combined tonnage more than three times as great as that of ships flying the Red Ensign. But al* though the ratio has fallen Britain still heads the list of the merchant fleets pf' the world, comfortably outdistancing her closest, rivals. ; >|«|iy interesting facts may be gathered from the latest “ Lloyd’s Register of Shipping,” wherein may bp found complete par-' tioulars of all the sea.goina vessels of the world, embracing some 39,0Q0 steamers, motor.shjps and salling yes. sels. The world's tonnage of course is increasing. That is the evident result of the expansion both in population and in the volume as distinct from the value of seaborne trade, In the twelve months to the end of June last the net increase in world tonnage was 1,588,000 tons, of which 1,488,000 tons was in motor vessels, demonstrating the growing popularity of this type of propulsion. To-day ? s total, according to the Register, is 68,124,000 tons of vessels of all types, j being an increase of as many ns 22,620,000 tons or nearly J 50 per cent on the 1914 figures. Of this large gain the British Empire can claim only 2,596,000 tons, or a little over 10 per cent. In the same period the United States has increasved her tonnage by 8,610,000 tons, a four-fold expansion, while Japan has to her credit a gain of 2,609,000 tons. Among the outstanding developments of recent yeavs is a considerable ■ increase in the number of sea-going steamers and motor-ships pf 4000 tons and over, In 1914 only 3600 such vessels existed, while the number is new 6,600, including 63 of 20,00 tons and upwards, y It is some consolation to find that of the 446 vessels of 10,000 tons and,above 240, or ipqreffchan half, fly the British flag. Another favourable point is that of the total tonnage owned by Great Britain 22} per cent is less than five years old. Of British tonnage no less than 84.2 per cent is under 20 years old, while the percentage of . similar tonnage owned abroad is less than 15.7. ’

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Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1930, Page 2

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WELLINGTON NEWS Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1930, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1930, Page 2

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