EMPIRE SHOPPING

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 987, 2 June 1930, Page 13

EMPIRE SHOPPING

DOMINIONS’ FOODSTUFFS LONDON, Saturday. The annual report of the Empire Marketing Board draws attention to the record imports by Britain of several foodstuffs from the Dominions. These include 720,000 cwt of raisins and sultanas, 240,000ewt of currants and 4,464,000 cwt of sugar from Australia; 1,802,000 cwt of butter. 1 313,000 cwt of cheese and 169,000 cwt of frozen pork from New Zealand. There were also 3,780,000 dozen eggs from Australia and 200,000 dozen from New Zealand. The report adds that the board was encouraged by the experience of the past year. There has again been an appreciable quickening of interest in the theme of Empire buying among the men and women of the United kingdom. BUTTER AND CHEESE Merchants report receipt of overseas cables as follows: Amalgamated Dairies* from its London house: Butter.—We are now holding Anchor firm at 128 s; other finest down to 1255. Danish, 1265, f.0.b., 132 s spot. Retails unchanged. Deliveries of New Zealand, 1,010 tons: stock. 10,816 tons. Cheese: White, 77s to 78s; coloured, 82s to 83s. Market slightly better after weakness. Retail unchanged. PAPAKURA DAIRY SALE At the first dairy sale of the season held at the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company’s yards at Papakura, competition for dairy cows close to profit was keen. Best dairy cows realised up to £l3 10s; others, £lO lo £l2 15s; backward sorts £8 to £ll 15s; heifers,-best, close to profit, £lO to £l2 15s; backward and inferior, £S to £9 15s; yearling heifers, Jerseys, £3 2s 6d to £3 7s.