SOUNDNESS OF EMPIRE TRADE.
GREAT GROWTH SHOWN IN PRESENT CENTURY. N.Z. DAIRY PRODUCE MORE THAN TREBLED. , By Telegraph-Press Assn. -Copyright.) (Australian Press Assn. and Sun.) (Received This Day, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, July 24. Tlie Marketing Board's annual report strikingly emphasises the development of Empire trade since the beginning of this century. Australia's wool exports have increased from 500 million pounds weight to 800 million; her wheat exports from half a million to two million tons. New Zealand wool exports have increased from 150 million pounds to 200 million; her butter and cheese exports from 400,000 to 1,500,000 cwt. The range of Empire products available in Britain, the report stated, was spreading every year. A revolution in Empire supplies and trading had happened within the lifetime of middleaged people. The overseas'portions of Empire were only on the threshold of economic manhood) and comprised only a-quarter of the world, yet their population absorbed nearly half of Britain's exports. There was no discoverable limit to the rewards from wisely directed research and well planned economic organisation.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 July 1929, Page 5
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