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ANNUAL IMPORTS OF DAIRY PRODUCTS INTO UNITED KINGDOM DURING THE YEARS 1938 AND 1942 TO 1947 INCLUSIVE The following tables are of interest, particularly the butter and cheese tables, which show the importance of New Zealand as a supplier to Britain during the vital war years, and compare the normal pre-war imports with those of the immediate post-war period.

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Consigned from 1938. 1842. 1943. 1944. 1945. 1946. J 1947. Ann New Zealand Australia Irish Free State Union of South Africa .. Canada South-west African Territory Kenya Other Empire Total Empire .. Denmark Netherlands .. Latvia Sweden Lithuania Estonia Finland Poland Argentine Austria Hungary .. France Belgium Norway Czechoslovakia Japan Uruguay Other foreign .. Total foreign .. Grand total Less re-exports Net imports * The revise UAL IlIPOB 129,613 89,891 16,330 1,266 1,501 1,294 707 37 TS OF Bui (II 93,377 40,716 225 12 I r- 6 I J CTE8 INTO l tons) 100,385 44,013 142 5 3,175 United K 104,383 37,799 28 Kingdom 118,274 45,059 1 1 1 101,162 65,490 " 3 3 120,309 53,944 445 240,639 134,336 147,720 142,210 163,336 166,658 174,698 40,373 1 j 209 *37 118,240 35,595 16,995 15,038 11,404 9,158 10,486 9,954 4,494 749 1,023 17 249 620 555 371 308 1 *18 225 *386 10j 522 217 26,114 *614 56 43,537 i jio2 *37 235,257 243 3,884 10,739 26,784 44,676 41,593 475,896 3,952 134,579 48 151,604 78 152,949* 109 190,120 179 211,334 786 216,291 2,260 471,944 134,531 151,526 152,840 189,941 210,548 214,031 sd figures issi led in 1946 show total imports for 1944 as 153,200 tons.