BUTTER MARKET IMPROVES
Australians Limit Exports And Spread Shipments SUBSEQUENT RISE IN PRICE ‘ ‘ UNDESIRABLE FEATURES ’' (United l ress Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Deceived 1 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Oct. 24. Tlie Australian decision to spread butter shipments to Britain, limiting exports to 2500 tons weekly, has already improved the tone of the London market. The manager of the Australian Dairy Board said that prices had risen three to four shillings a 'hundredweight from the lowest and are firm at the advanced rate. During the past four years of the depression Britain consumed 40 per cent, more butter, 31 per cent, more eggs, 35 per cent, more poultry and 25 per cent, more fruit than in the previous four years, said Earl DeWar, addressing the general assembly of the Institute of Agriculture. That 'surely was a great contribution to the restoration of prosperity. If everybody iu Europe ate the bare health minimum there would be little talk of glut.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 25 October 1934, Page 4
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