THE SHERRY TRADE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3827, 30 October 1936, Page 9

THE SHERRY TRADE

UNAFFECTED BY REVOLUTION. There were some questions at London bars and dinner tables, when the last mail left England, whether the Spanish insurrection might cause a shortage of sherry in England, but sherry-shipping firms say that there is at present no danger at all of this. The British sherry business was not I quite .unprepared for troubles, and, I as statistics of sherry imports show, 1 had laid in a good store, both in the bonded vaults beside the Pool of London and in Liverpool and Glasgow. In Uune, 1935, 233,828 gallons of sherry were shipped from Cadiz to Britain, and in June ’this year there were 332,798 gallons, an increase of almost 100,000 gallons, due only to fear of imminent Spanish disturbances. So, too, in the first six months of this year, the import was £1,830,588, as against 1,507,390 gallons last year. Cadiz, the only port for Jerez, has been virtually closed since 17th July, says the “Manchester Guardian.” On that date the Ravenspoint, a London ship, could only take half its cargo of sherry because of the troubles there, and the same happened with the Carpio, the last sherry ship of all at Cadiz, which was there on 21st July. For the monwht shipments have stopp.cd.