HORSE TRADE SLUMPS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1933, Page 4

HORSE TRADE SLUMPS

FEWER BRITISH EXPORTS

Effects of the depression have been very noticeable in the export trade of Great Britain in thoroughbred horses. Not only the shortage of money, but lome of the mean* ©f gaining additional, revenue in many. of the co'uhtriei to which exports have been made, 'Kara militated against the trade. ■■ Australia, for,example, has ita primage'duty. South Africa has a tax of £100 on each horse landed at a South African port, plut 20 per cent, ad valorem on the declared Value, or its price if bought at public auction.. ~ . ; There has been about a 25 per cent; reduction in the number of exports in"the years 1929-32,' as' compared with the period, 1925-28. In detail, a comparison from figures gleaned from the General Stud I Book shows the following to be the nun> ber of exports in the respective periods:—

Totals 319 D 4061 Of the 71 thoroughbreds in the 1929-32 period shipped to Australia, only eight were exported in the last tivp years.

• ; ' . v --1925-28. Australia'...:;.• ;. S50 Austria- .• 47. Belgium 218 Canada .............. 223 -. Ceylon • .............. 239 Denmark ............ 125 Egypt ISO France 787 Germany .............. SO Holland, ............. 5 .Hungary .............. 7:1 India 780 Italy ' ■...-...i.i. 151 Japan ,;.......,, 27. New.Zealand .......... 70 Poland '■•■•• j.j..i.i'..i..'.j" 21 Rumania ............i. 8 South Africa .......... 302 South America— . Argtmtlna ........... --R Brazil .............. 143 Chile i 8 Colombia ............ 10 • Panama I Peru ." Uruguay ............ 4 Venezuela Ill Spain (i:i Sweden -'<_ Norway " Tlnitefl. States 0"-J Miscellaneous 4:>j 1929-32. 71 , 6 ±!) 105 117 149 , 74 532 37 ■5.'.' 35 730 132 ' 31 17 16 3 344 121 , 88 3i>' 1 18 •15 •JS 5(1 Cli7 ;iiB