Half-Pound A Week.
BUTTER EATEN IN ENGLAND. N.Z. LARGEST SUPPLIER. 1934 CONSUMPTION FIGURES. Britain has uoav reached a but-ter-consuming standard of nearly half a pound a week for every man, woman and child, while margarine sales have fallen to 2-£ ounces per head, compared with four ounces five years ago. The Empire has strengthened its position as Britain's principal supplier of butter; New Zealand ha,s ousted Denmark from the position of largest individual suppliei to the British market. These facts emerge from figures just compiled by the Imperial Economic Committee from official returns of last year's consumption of these products. . During 1934 the record total of 528,300 tons of butter was consumed in the United Kingdom. Ten per cent, of this was Home-pro-duced, 25.7 per cent, came from New Zealand, 20 per cent, from Australia, 23.7 per cent, from Denmark, 16.3 per cent, from Russia, the Baltic States and Holland combined, and the rest from other sources.
Britain's consumption of butter has increased by 50 per cent, within the last five years, and in 1934 stood at 25.21 b per head—the highest recorded standard in Europe.
The consumption per head of margarine was 81b, Avhich shows a decline of 38 per cent, during the same period.
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Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19362, 20 March 1935, Page 6
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