DAIRY PRODUCE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 73, Issue 6284, 23 September 1946, Page 4

DAIRY PRODUCE

SHIPMENTS TO EASTERN PORTS Within the scope of the 2h per cent trade allocation’allowed on prewar exports by the former Combined Food Board at Washington, New Zealand is now making small shipments of dairy produce, as shipping is available, to the Near East. This is to re-establish pre-war trade connections. Cheese has already been sent to India and Malaya through export commercal agencies which have been allocated export quotas. The New Zealand Export Marketing Department, on behalf of the British Ministry of Supply, sent a quantity of milk-powder and sweetened condensed milk to Hong Kong. Because of lack of administrative control and of valid import certificates at ports of delivery, exports to China have been delayed, but authority has now been received for New Zealand to ship a quantity of produce to Shanghai.. Future exports to Shanghai and Hong Kong will be made through established commercial agencies. Markets are awaiting development, but shipments are few and very irregular, due to lack of shipping, particularly refrigerated space. Shipments which were made to Jamaica before the war intervened have been resumed, and it appears that within the limitations of shipping there will be a regular business in butter and cheese from New Zealand to Jamaica.