SOUTH AFRICA WANTS BUTTER.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 23, 27 July 1927, Page 14

SOUTH AFRICA WANTS BUTTER.

Informer years a fair butter business was done by New Zealand with South Africa, but transport charges and other difficulties practically stopped the trade. It may now revive, for a letter recently received by one of the leading export houses in Sydney from a South African lnerchant'in regard 'tQfdairyj),pr*dduce reads as.io.llpw's:—r"ln:teply!j, | ;',\\-ejl|i!n'iph:to state that, owing to'^jheyj^ping' duty on Australian butter supplies by the Union Government, your lower. quotation than the Some" market 1 value■•"•'ls--of no' benefit to us, as the dumping duty amounts to your allowance. We understand there is no dumping duty on New Zealand butter, and shall be pleased if you will let us

know your price for New Zealand first pats." The prohibitive duty, which Australia imposed on South African . maize last year,.led to a heavy duty on Austra-

lian flotir. and wheat being imposed by the Union, > which, according to advices just received, isr obtaining more favoured adjustments ■ elsewhere, and in the matter of dairy produce in the specific case instanced above, Ifcw Zealand is likely to benefit. .■',-.'.