FREE STATE EXPORTS
THE VOLUME TO BRITAIN A CONSIDERABLE DECREASE. LONDON, September 12. The Irish Free State experts to Britain for the eight months of 1932 and 1933 respectively were; Cattle £5,367,000 and £2,880,000; swine, £784,000 and £194,000; bacon, £426,000 and £303,000; butter, £978,000 and £906,000; eggs, £1,482,000 and £873,000. Britain’s exports to Ireland were similarly reduced. As an example: Coal, £1,147,000 and £565,000; wheat, meal and flour, £949,000 and £165,000; sugar, £464,000 and £47,000; beer, £135,000 and £109,000. FREE STATE COAL. DEVELOPMENT OF MINES. DUBLIN, September 12. With the object of reducing British coal imports the Free State Government is planning to develop the Aringa mines on the borders of Roscommon and Leitrim. Four French mining engineers are officially investigating the district’s mineral resources. MEETING THE BRITISH “ATTACK.” MR DE VALERA AND LABOUR. LONDON, September 12. Mr de Valera conferred with the Labourites and discussed the speeding up of unemployment, housing, and other legislation, and “ the most effective means of meeting the British attack on the economic life of the nation.” He afterwards announced that Labour had decided to continue to support the Government, and that an early election was unlikely.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22058, 14 September 1933, Page 9
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