EGGS AND BACON

Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3215, 11 August 1932, Page 5

EGGS AND BACON

SOURCES OF BRITAIN'S IMPORTS.

NEW ZEALAND'S SMALL SHARE

Over 3,100,000 000 eggs were consumed in Britain last year (says the report of the Empire Marketing Board on "Dairy Produce Supplies in 1931") The vo'ume of empire supplies was the largest ever recorded, and accounted for 24 per cent of out total imports. Denmark is the chief source of imports, sending 29 per cent of the total from all sources. The New Zealand share in 1931 was only 1440 eggs. Britain draws her imports of eggs from, a'together, over 30 countries. Supplies of bacon to the United Kingdom were (states the report) on "an unprecedented scale" in 1931. Imports rose by 1,950,000 cwt or 21 per cent, compared with 1930, which was in itself a record year. Compared with the average. of the five years, 1925-29, imports showed an increase of 37 per cent. Br'tain is importing considerably over twice as much bacon as in the years before the war. This figure has risen from 4,787,000 cwt to 11138,000 cwt, valued in 1931 at £33,136,000. Empire supplies represented only a small part;—3 per cent—of the total imports. The Empire is better off, however, as regards frozen pork, which is finding a steadily-growing market. New Zealand is the chief source of supply, Empire or foreign. This trade has developed almost entirely in post-war years. S'nce 1927 New' Zealand has held first place, but supplies from the Dominion have declined since the peak year of 1929 and the quant'ty registered in 1931 was 11 per cent less than in 1930. Australia, on the other hand, increased her 1931 exports to the United Kingdom by 400 per cent over 1930.