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BRITISH BUTTER IMPORTS
(Special to the "Evening Post.") LONDON, January 28
.". The total arrivals in the, United Kingdom 'of butter from New Zealand and Australia in 1936 amounted to 8,969,000 boxes, as compared with 9,501,000 boxes in ,1935. The imports of butter from all sources, into the United Kingdom, reached record figures in 1936, although the sbare. of Empire countries dropped to 53 per cent, of the total, from 57 per cent, in ,1935. : The apparent consumption of all butter ': is estimated to have declined to 24.81b per head of the population, as against 25.21b in each of the two preceding years. The average prices of New Zealand , and Australian salted butter were greater than in 1935 by 10 per cent, and 11 per cent, respectively, while' Danish butter prices advanced by 6 per cent. ' The total 'stocks of butter from ail sources remaining in cold-storage as at January 2,1937, came to 762,932 boxes, approximately 412,000 boxes above the total at the beginning of 1936, the figures in both cases not including stocks inXordinary storage or in steamers in process of discharging. Incidentally, the New Year opened with a rise in price of 2s to 4s per cwt for all imported butter.'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1937, Page 12
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