EAST INDIES MARKET
Chances For Australia
BUTTER MONOPOLY HELD
(Received May 8. 8.40 p.m.)
Melbourne, May 8.
.Mr. J. Tonkin, ollicer in charge of the Eastern trade section of the Federal Department of Commerce, has issued a report in which lie makes a plea for development of a better understanding between the Australian people and the Netherlands East Indies. He adds: There exists throughout the East Indies an insistent, demand for manufactured and semimanufactured foodstuffs from the countries of temperate climes. Mr. Tonkin points out that the natives are unable to produce many of their own requirements. He.suggests that Australian exporters could participate to a greater extent in the supplying of dried fish, fresh and canned vegetables, dried and canned fruits, cereal foods, sauces, pickles, cheese, tobacco, honey, condensed milk and cream. Australia, however, already had a monopoly A' butter and flour supplies.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 190, 10 May 1934, Page 9
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143EAST INDIES MARKET Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 190, 10 May 1934, Page 9
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