WORLD'S MARKET

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 54, 1 September 1934, Page 9

WORLD'S MARKET

DAIRY AND PIG PRODUCE

BRITAIN STILL LEADS

BUTTER, BACON, CHEESE,

EGGS

OTTAWA'S BOON TO EMPIRE

(British Official Wireless,)

(Received September-]., 11 a.m.) RUGBY, August 31. The United Kingdom was again in 1933 the world's largest importer of dairy produce and pig produce,! according lo the survey of the Imperial Economic Committee. Although the total value is less by £14,000,000 than in 1932, the imports of butter were a record at 8,835,000cwt, 80 per cent, of the world production, equivalent to 23-J lb a head, being absorbed by the United Kingdom in 1933, as against 60 per cent, in the three years 1928 to 1930 inclusive. Cheese at 3,000,000cwt showed a slight increase over 1932. Egg consumption was 152 per head in 1933, as compared with 150 in 1932, but the con-v sumption of home-produced eggs' in-' creased from 65 to 69 per cent.

Following the quota regulations the imports of bacon at 9,000,000 cwt were 2,300,000cwt below 1932. Denmark Svas the largest supplier of butter, eggs, and bacon.

Following l:he Ottawa Agreement a marked increase is shown in the proportion from Empire sources. The Empire supplies 63 per cent, of the butter, a" larger proportion than ever previously, and 93 per cent, of the cheese, chiefly from New Zealand and Canada. Empire supplies of eggs were 33 per cent., as against 30 per cent, in 1932, and bacon 8 per Gent., the highest proportion recorded.