"BUY BRITISH"

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 16 June 1932, Page 14

"BUY BRITISH"

EFFECT ON BUTTER ' IMPORTS

"Andelsbladet," the organ of the Danish Agricultural Co-operative Movement, publishes some interesting figures as to Great Britain's imports of butter and the effects of t"ne "Buy'Einpfre Butter" campaign on the -butter market, as follows:— (In million; kilogrammes;)

-' 1929. 1930. 1931. Denmark, ;. 112.0 117.8 125.3 New Zealand and " Australia ...... 105.7' 128.2 177.5 Irish Free State .. 28.8 ■ 26.5 19.4 Other countries .. 79.0 74.4 '87.8 Total import's ;'.' '325.5 ■*' 346.9 - 410.0 Denmark has .'increased its trade ■with England, but in spite of this, increase the- percentage ofi Danish -butter, in relation, to Great J.Britain's ■ total butter imports, has diminished, as will be seen, from the following figures giving a percentage analysis of Great Britain's butter imports:— . ' . New Zealand ■ ■•'■": . and Other ■."■-' Denmark; Australia. Countries. .Year. p.c. '.',' p.c!- p.e. 1927... 34.3 ' 29.9 35.8 1928,. 33.0 : 34:3 32.7 - 1929.. .34.4 32.5 33.1' 193Q.. '--34.0^a. r^37:0v.. ! :.L:::i.29.0 •" 1931.. 30.6 43.3 26.1' Denmark now gives pride of place to, Australia and New-Zealand (taken - together) as the chief butter suppliers to this\ country, and, Bays "Andelsbladet," Denmark must new ways and means of extending and safeguarding her export market. " ~ .■ t ■'.