A RECORD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 238, 7 October 1932, Page 4

A RECORD.

AUSTRALIAN BUTTER. SHIPMENTS TO ENGLAND. The rapid development of overseas trade in Australian butter is shown in the seventh annual report of the Australian Dairy Produce Control Board for the year ended June 30, 1932, which was tabled m the Federal House of Representatives by the Minister of' Commerce (Mr. Hawker). During the year'9l,oß6 tons of butter were exported from Australia, which exceeded all previous records, and reprewnted an increase of'l7,l3s'tons-over the exports of 1930-31. The exports of cheese were 3378 tons, which are slightly less than the exports for the previous year. Of the exports of. butter 83,973 tone were shipped to the United Kingdom, and 7113 tons to other destinations. Great Britain also provided a market for approximately 90 per cent of the surplus cheese produce in the Commonwealth. . The board states that the reputation ot the butter shipped from the Commonwealth last year attained a high standard. Notwithstanding the large increase in the shipments, there had been an absence of complaints about quality. This resulted in inducing retailers in the Midlands and North of England to stock Australian butter. This was a step forward in areas in which Danish butter had previously.dominated the market. This achievement was due in no small measure to the Government's advertising campaign, conducted by the Director of Australian Trade Publicity (Mr. A. E. Hyland). As a result of the Ottawa Conference, states the board, Australia will obtain preference of butter, cheese, eggs in shell, condensed milk and dried milk. These preferences should assist in securing a still larger share of the British market for Empire dairy produce. Satisfactory arrangements.had been made by the board in regard to freight rates and insurance on butter and cheese shipped to the United Kingdom. A largo volume of exports had also enabled a substantial reduction to be made in the levies on butter and cheese.