DAIRY PRODUCE
AUSTRALIAN EXPORTS FIGURES FOR PAST YEAR (Received September 22, 10.35 p.m.) CANBERRA, Sept. 22 Tho annual report of tho Australian Dairy Produce Control Board reveals the fact that 91,086 tons of butter wero exported from this country last year, being an increase of 17,335 tons over tho exports for the previous year. Of tho total 83,973 tons went to tho United Kingdom. The average weekly price of tho butter shipped to June 30, 1932, was £5 4s 6d a cwt., compared with £5 16s in the year 1930-31. The lower price was duo to the depression and to Increased Continental competition. ' ?
The report states that the quality o the butter exported was high and then was an entire absence of complaint.
Australia's crports of cheeso totalled 3378 tons, which was slightly below the total for the previous year. The board emphasises that, as a result of the Ottawa preferences on butter, cheese and eggs, local and Dominon exporters should obtain a still larger share of British trade in future.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21295, 23 September 1932, Page 9
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