EMPIRE FOODSTUFFS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2767, 26 August 1931, Page 5

EMPIRE FOODSTUFFS.

IMPORTS TO UNITED KINGDOM. Twenty-two , commodities, drawn from four Dominions and several colonies, were noted in the annual report of the Empire Marketing Board for 1928-29 as having been imported into the United Kingdom in the previous two seasons in greater quantities than ever before in their histories. Again, the Board’s annual report for 19291930 showed that 25 new records had been set up, in the. year then under review, by Empire foodstuffs, as regards volume "of imports into the United Kingdom. Nearly half these did even better in the year now being considered,, whije. a further substantial list of Empire, foodstuffs established records. Apples from Canada and from New Zealand reached this country in record quantities in 1930, as did bananas from the British West Indies, butter and cheese .from New Zealand, coffee from British East Africa, currants from Australia, eggs . from Australia and South Africa, grapefruit from South Africa and Palestine, lamb from New Zealand, oranges, peaches, plums, .sugar and ' wine from South’ Africa, pears from no less than four Dominions, and tobacco from India. A number of other foodstuffs are also mentioned in the report for which, while the z 1929 Record was not reached in 1930, the last year’s imports surpassed all previous years, except 1929. These include Australian raisins and sultanas’. New Zealand frozen pork, Geylon tea, Australian sugar, and British Malayan canned pineapples.