RUSSIAN BUTTER.
NO SURPLUS TO EXPORT. LONDON, November 10. The Russian steamer, Alexci Rykoff, arrived at London Bridge, yesterday with the biggest winter cargo of butter (18,740 barrels) ever landed in. this oountry by the Soviet. Mr H. E. Davis, London manager of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board, commented: —. "This represents the landing of unwanted butter in this country, and its sale at prices which bear no • relation to the real value of butter; and it entails thg depletion of the barest food necessities of a populous country to raise money by hook or by crook abroad. The explanation is suggested to me by a Russian correspondent, who says: 'The most striking feature' of this wholesale export of butter to England is that there are quantities lying here in refrigerators which have been swept together in Russia, while the country has really no surplus to export.' " Mr J. G. Staplejon, of the British Dairy Fanners' Association, expressea the opinion that the time had arrived for the imposition' forthwith of an emergency tariff on all foreign butters of 3d to 4d a pound.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20427, 23 December 1931, Page 8
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