AUSTRALIAN MEAT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20512, 2 September 1936, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN MEAT

SALES TO GREAT BRITAIN A circular issued by the Australian Country Party states that Australia’? sales of meat in the United Kingdom since the Ottawa Agreement had increased by more than £2,500,000 a year. Although the value of the total meat imports of the United Kingdom was considerably lower in 1935 than in 1934, the value of her imports fro. .1 British countries had steadily increased. Australia supplied 10 per cent, of Britain’s meat importations, and ranked fourth among the countries from which meat was imported. In 1935, the value of Britain’s imports from the four leading exporting countries was:—Argentina, £17,573,509; Denmark, £16.290,895; New Zealand, £12,895,257; Australia, £7,933,359. Itl was estimated that increased prosperity in Britain would result in at least a 25 per cent, increase in consumption which should lead to further increases in Australia’s beef exports. It was hoped, too, that some of the restrictions imposed by European countries on the importation of meat would soon be lifted, as Europe could double its present consumption of imported meat.