RISING EXPORTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 71, 21 September 1937, Page 8

RISING EXPORTS

AUSTRALIAN HOME TRADE

(From "The Post's" Representative.)

SYDNEY. September 17.

Three Australian industries —butter, beef, and canned fruits—are credited by reports presented to the Federal Parliament with record prosperity levels. ■ '

Butter is selling on the London market at the highest average price since the 1931-32 season. Where only 8000 United Kingdom shops sold Australian butter when the publicity drive began a few years ago, it is now sold by 550,000 shops; Beef exports to the United Kingdom continue to show a steady increase. The figures for 1936 ; were 1,803,000cwt, an increase of 6 per cent, on the figures for 1935. According to present estimates, the total for this year will exceed 2,360,000cwt The report of the Australian Meat Board also records an advance in the chilled beef trade. Exports to the United Kingdom increased from 55,000cwt in 1934 to 296,000cwt in 1936. It is estimated*that 415,000cwt will be exported in 1937.

Canned fruits reached the highest point in the history of the" industry, with a total pack of 2,328,292 cases for 1936-37, or 106,863 cases more than the previous year. Disposal of this production and all surplus stocks is assured, and the market is improving in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, Southern Rhodesia, and the British West Indies.

Mr. A. Clark, district traffic manager ol! the Railways Department at Christchurch since 1931, has been promoted to the position of district traffic manager at Dunedin to succeed Mr. H. L. Gibson, who is retiring. He will lake over his new position on October 4.