BUTTER SHIPMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 22805, 13 November 1937, Page 12

BUTTER SHIPMENTS

LOADING DELAY DENIED MINISTER GIVES THE FIGURES [Per United Press ■ Association.] WELLINGTON, November 13. Figures in. the possession of, the Minister of Marketing, Mr Nash, do not indicate that there has been any delay in loading New Zealand butter for shipment to the London market. These figures were given by the Minister in an interview, when asked to comment on the cablegram from London stating that the. President of the Board of Trade in the British Government, Mr Oliver Stanley, had said, that delayed loading in New Zealand was one of the factors preventing increased imports. “Mr Stanley’s statements are generally correct,” the Minister said, “ but possibly the cabled. message does not give accurately his ■ comments on the present position.” Mr Nash quoted the following figures to give a comparison of butter shipments to London and the quantities held in store between this year and last ■ year: • September shipments 1936, 12,050 tons; 1937, 10,846 tons; Octo■ber shipments, 10,536 (11,256) ; afloat on November 1, 13.454 (15,632) ; in store in New Zealand on November 1, 13.000 (10,000). “ These figures show ■ that the shipments for September and October were down by only 484 tons on the figure for the same months last year,” the Minister said. The quantity afloat on November 1 is 2,178 tons greater this year than it was last year, and at the same time' the quantity in store in New Zealand shows a decrease of 3,000 tons. This hardly indicates delayed loading, or any delay at all in the shipping of our produce to the London market.”