SIBERIAN BUTTER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 8

SIBERIAN BUTTER

UNLOADING AT LONDON SHIPPED BEFORE EMBARGO CONCESSIONS TO FOREIGNERS | IBy Telegraph —Press Association—Copyright) Received Mar 7. 6.10 p.m. LONDON. May 6. Nut withstanding the embargo on Russian imports, 225 tons of Siberian butter is being discharged at Hays Wharf. Apparently this is permitted because it nas shipped before the embargo. The Daily Express says that this will be thrown on the market, already glutted with Danish, Dutch, Swedish and South American butter, and will be quoted on the London Provisions Exchange at 62s per ywt. Empire butter sold yesterday at 70s to 74s per cwt. One ship also brought 72,000 head of poultry, principally imports of co-opera-tive societies, whose secretary says that the goods were all paid for before the embargo. The Telegraph draws attention to the extent of Empire cargoes carried in foreign ships and mentions a list of 66 voyages in 1932 by foreign flag tonnage from Dominion ports to the United Kingdom. Of these 43 were from Australia. eleven from South Africa, eight from Canada, and the balance from the West Indies. This represents only a small portion of the traffic, as shippers who charter foreign vessels are not anxious to advertise the fact. Freight charges going thus into foreign pockets must lepresent a large sum. The remedy is the closing of the inter-Empire freight passenger market to all nations which exclude our ships from their coastwise trade.