DANISH BUTTER SALES

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26264, 8 November 1950, Page 7

DANISH BUTTER SALES

HOME RATIONING TO CEASE

(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, Nov 7. Rationing of butter is to end in Denmark from November 8. The Danish Government was '•ecently defeated by a vote of no-cor.-fidence in a debate on the opposition's demand for the abolition of butter and margarine rationing as Soon as possible and the Cabinet resigned. , The British trade magazine, the Grocer,” says that the dispute arose mainly, if not entirely, through the failure of the recent Danish trade delegation to London to procure from the Ministry of Food a rise in the contract price of Danish butter shipped to Br;l--am.

The Danes thereupon decided to export butter to countries other than Britain, to manufacture more cheeae, and to develop the production of milK powder—all for export. The “Grocer” says that in allowing the talks on butter to break down the Ministry of Food may have, for the time being, saved Britain an additional of J ust more than £2,000,000 on food subsidies, but it remains to be seen whether the saving will ultimately prove a blessing. “The Danes will continue to press for price revision and it is understood that for the time being they will reduce butter supplies by some 30,000 tons, or 10 per cent of Britain’s total imports last year. To Denmark this upheaval in their trade relations is a more serious matter. Britain has ei> joyed a tremendous amount of goodwill there since the end of the war and there is no country which would be more pro-British. It would be a pi tv if those sentiments were affected now by the Minister’s buying policy,” comments the "Grocer.”