AUSTRALIAN BUTTER
Butter production in Australia is steadily rising. A recent return covering the eleven months to May indicates that production for the full year may exceed 4,000,000cwt. During the eleven months production totalled 3,637,827cwt, compared with 3,461,394cwt during the corresponding period last year. Price levels during the last three months of the year showed a marked decline compared with the previous year, the f.o.b. equivalent of London price (Australian currency) per cwt being 1265, 119s, and 126s in April, May, and June, 19,39, respectively, against 140s, 1435, ahd 135s for the corresponding months of 1938. Queensland produced the greatest output of butter during the eleven months, at May—1,292,646cwt, with Victoria, 1,052,989cwt, next, and New South Wales, 947,31 lewt following. Queensland was also the greatest exporter during the eleven months, contributing 1,065,011cwt of a total of 1,888,049cwt. Victorian exports totalled 524,658cwt, and New South Wales 186,054cwt. Empire countries purchased 96.8 per cent, of exports.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1939, Page 12
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154AUSTRALIAN BUTTER Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1939, Page 12
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