INCREASED IMPORTS
MARKETING BOARD’S WORK “PARASITE ZOO” FOUNDED (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press dissociation.) (United Service) LONDON. Tues. The report of the Empire Marketing Board claims that in new work there has been a: definite increase in the sale of particular Empire commodities, upon the basis of price-levels in 1924. The value of imports into the United Kingdom from different parts of the Empire rose from £386,000,000 in 1924 to £420,000,000 in 1927, an increase of 9 per cent.', during a period in which the population increased by only Ij. per cent.
A grant from the Marketing Board established a central laboratory of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology in Buckinghamshire, which had been called “The Parasite Zoo.’* Here were bred parasites which destroy insects. Already parasites of the blowfly had been ‘shipped to Australia and New Zealand.
Valuable work had been done in checking wastage in cargoes of Empire fruit during transit. Progress of the Empire Shopping Week and demonstrations of the Empire kitchen had been satisfactory.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 410, 19 July 1928, Page 11
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