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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3142, 11 February 1911, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

EXPORT# FROAI ARGENTINA

'UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT...* BEI'XOS AYRES. Feb. 9.

The following shipments of produce were despatched from the Argentine to the United Kingdom ports- during January, 1911 (compared with January 1910): —1911. frozen beef, 147,084 quarters; 1910, 107,155 quarters. Chilled beef, 176,542 quarters and 86,297 quarters. Frozen mutton, 317,092 carcases and 133,661 carcases. Frozen land), 66,937 carcases and 1 22,243 carcases. Butter, 720' cwts. and 16,406 cwts. EMPIRE WHEAT SUPPLY.

A new source of wheat supply for the United Kingdom which is likoiv to become ava’.laoie in tlie near ruture is British East- Africa. The area under wheat cultivation in that protectorateis rapidly extending aiid is now nearly sufficient to supply all the requirements of the country itself. It is expected that in a. very few years a considerable ' surplus will Unavailable for export. The examination at the Imperial Institute of samples of wheat specially grown in British East Africa shows that these wheats would command a. ready sale in the United Kingdom at prices comparing favorably with the'finest descriptions of grain atpresent imported. Edible beans are another important product now being cultivated in East Africa for export. An interesting example of a product of minor importance which East Africa might readily produce is dill fruit, from which dill oil, used in medicine, is distilled. Some of this fruit grown in British East Africa at- Limoni, 7,000 ft. above sea level, has been examined at the Imperial Institute. It- would be of value in Britain, and trial shipments have been already asked for.