AUSTRALIAN CHEESE,

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 8, 10 July 1934, Page 10

AUSTRALIAN CHEESE,

According :to details furnished by the Commonwealth Department of Commerce. 450!) tons of cheese have been exported from Australia during the current season, of which approximately 4100 tons went to Great Britain, total exports representing a decline of 1221 tons compared with the quantity sent overseas in the corresponding period of 1932-33. The Minister of Commerce points out that comparatively little headway has beeu recorded in this phase of Australian dairying, total exports of cheese having advauced by less" than 2000 tons in the past five years. This is in striking contract to the marked expansion of the butter export trade, which in the same period .improved by nearly 55,000 tons. The United Kingdom is the best customer for both commodities, but, whereas Australia is the third .largest supplier of Britain's butter import requirements, consignments of Australian cheese on the British market are practically negligible. Lost year the United Kingdom imported 131,983 tous of cheese. New Zealand was the largest supplier with 102,970 tons. Shipments from Canada amounted to 31,485 tons, whilst arrivals from Australia were 4024 tons. The progress achieved by New Zealand • suggests that the mannfnetm-c of cheese is not less profitable than butter, and directs attention to the possibility of Australia's obtaining a greater share of Great Britain's custom"

The export of coal from Greymouth in the four weeks ended on June 23 was less by 1(576 tons tlian the export in the corresponding' period last year. The figures were 13,02-1 tons and 15,200 tons.