ON RISING SCALE
AMERICAN LEND-LEASE EXPORTS OF FOOD. SOME DETAIL VARIATIONS. (Received This Day, 10.22 a.m.) (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 10. The American authorities have announced that lend-lease exports of food to the Allies in the first eight months of 1943 amounted to about 9 per cent, of the total food supply of America, compared with 1942 exports, which were about 6 per cent. Although only 1 per cent, of beef and veal has been exported, a relatively greater amount of lamb, mutton and pork has been shipped. Exports of lamb and mutton were about 12 per cent, of the total, and those of pork about 15 per cent. The proportion of milk products sent abroad under lend-lease has been un cler 3 per cent. Last year it was 3.4 per cent. Exports of butter have been 1 per cent. Shipments of cheese amounted to 11 per cent, of the total, .compared with 23 per cent, in 1942. Of canned fruits and vegetables, lendlease shipped about 1 per cent. Dried fruits amounted to about 21 per cent, of the supply, and dried beans and peas to about 11 per cent.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 October 1943, Page 4
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191ON RISING SCALE Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 October 1943, Page 4
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