SOVIET BUTTER NEGLIGIBLE
what 18 Behind the AGITATION? AUCKLAND, June 16. “Unless there is something behind all this, something we do not know, I cannot understand why there v is all this talk about Russian butter,” skid, an Auckland butter merchant to-dhy. “Just look at the figures.” He quoted the statistical position, comparing the amount of Russian imported by Britain with vastly greater total imports. In 1930 Britain's total imports were 294,720 tons, of which. 65,496 tons were frOm , New Zealand , and 10,fi31 tons from Russia. He concluded; “There may be more’behind this question; but the statistical p6si-< tion is such that anyone interested 1 in butter would not for a moment con-" aider Russian butter as a possible fae- , tor in affecting NCw Zealand's pbaition on the Home market.”
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 June 1931, Page 3
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