EMPIRE BUTTER TRIUMPH
a. —i N.Z. TO OUST FOREIGNER LONDON BROADCAST TALK i LONDON. Nov. 18. Now Zealand lui-a quadrujdml its i>iittcr exports in tlio last nine years, 'according to Mr. 11. E. [)avis, Loudon manager ot; the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board, who delivered one of the Empire Marketing Board’s wireless broadcast talks from London this morning. During the dairying year ended July 31, the Dominion produced 110,000 tons of butter, of which .70,000 toms were exported to Great Britain, 20,000 tons to Canada, afid only 2000 tons to other countries. The 02,000 tons exported compared with 23,000 tons in 1021. “It is confidently predicted by many people thoroughly familiar with our wonderful conditions of soil I and climate that we shall further double oiir present- production of butter within the next 1(1 years,” said Mr. Davis. New Zealand, already I lie world’s largest per capita buyer of English goods, would be able largely to increase its purchases of British manufactures if its butter exports to the Homeland were doubled;. added Mr. Davis,. At the present time the Dominion purchases .£20,000,0(10 of British goods, eipial to £ll I Is per head of population, compared with £3 per head of purchases by Denmark, .£2 12s per head by llie Argentine, and sixpence per lie,-id by Russia. , The above is the gist of a. talk gi.veii here this morning in pursuance of the 8.8.0’s policy of giving Dominion producers their turn at telling the world what they are doing. —Auckland hit nr, „ j,, ra
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17453, 30 December 1930, Page 3
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