GROWING DEMAND FOR EMPIRE PRODUCE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 22, 18 August 1932, Page 8

GROWING DEMAND FOR EMPIRE PRODUCE

THREE NEW RECORDS SET j UP j The change which has taken j place in the buying habits of the j British public and the growth of the demand for Empire goods are clearly brought out in the annual j i report of the Empire Marketing Board, which has just been re. ceived. For 25 Empire products ! new records in quantities of im- j I ports have been established, and | for more than half of these the record now surpassed was made j I in the previous year. j There is an upward tendency at j v.o.K in spite of the diminished buyjiii' power of the public. New Zealand j ' l.ieduce has set up three new reel i ordvs. More New #ealand| frozen | I lamb, butter and pears were imported into the United Kingdom than ever j before. All these commodities had j made previous records in 1930, but { these were easily surpassed in 1931. •The frozen lamb shipments, for jn-j stance, went up by over 1,000,000 car.! casses. Imports, of New Zealand| cheese in 1931 have hilherio been ex-i cecded only in 192!) •■•■ ' 1930. Other I Empire commodities which have set. !up new records in 1931 include wheat and wheat, thur. frozen pork, butter land eggs from Australia; eggs, sugar j and wine (50 per conL. increase).! grapes and grape fruit from South Africa; bananas from the British) West Indies, and Malayan pineapples.]