HUGE BACON IMPORTS
WHAT JJIIITAI X TAKES EMPIRE OX 3 PER CENT. Supplies of bacon to the United Kingdom were on ,aii unprecedented scale i n 1931. Imports roge by l,9oO,OUUewts or 21 per cent, •ccmipared witii 1930, which wa# in itself a record year. Compared with the average of the live years 1925-29, imports showed an increase of 37 per cent. Britain, is importing considerably over twice as much ha com a<s i (11 the years before the war. This figure has risen from 4,787,.00dcwt5. to- 11,138,OOOcwts. valued* in lt>3p a.t £33,136, - 000. Empire- supplies represented udJv a small part, 3 per cent., of the total imports. Tin* Empire iisj better oil, liowever, as regards frozen pork, which/ is finding a steadily growing market. New' Zealand is the chief source, of supply. Empire or foreign.
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3793, 10 August 1932, Page 6
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