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SALES OF BUTTER AND CHEESE TO MARKETS OTHER THAN UNITED KINGDOM. The Department has endeavoured to increase sales of butter and cheese in markets other than the United Kingdon, and the requirements of firms regularly trading in those markets have been regularly supplied. The Department has always been prepared to quote on a f.o.b. basis for shipment to outside markets, and to arrange for supplies of the required types of produce, and for the special packaging which is frequently necessary. It can be stated that the Department's principle of equal treatment, both as regards supplies and prices, of all those exporters who have been doing business with ports outside United Kingdom, has been favourably commented on by exporters, and on the whole has led to an increase in the business done. Sales have been as under : —

New Zealand Dependencies and Neakby Islands. In view of the large number of small and irregular lines of butter and cheese shipped to these groups —namely, Cook and Savage Islands, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, New Guinea, and Tahiti—it was decided that such shipments should be treated as local trade, and left to New Zealand firms to handle, subject to their supplying regular monthly returns to the Department. Panama and Jamaica. The regular sale of butter to these points has been maintained. In both places New Zealand butter holds the bulk of the trade. Honolulu. Shipments show a considerable increase, largely due to the American shipping strike, which shut off Californian supplies for some weeks.

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Port. I Butter (Boxes)i Cheese (Crates). Eastern Ports — Japan —• Kobe ... .. . ; • • • • 5,552 Osaka .. .. . • • • ■ • 40 Yokohama .. .. .. •• 2,110 — 7,702 Philippine Islands .. .. v •• 2,200 Singapore .. .. •• •• 8,526 French Cochin China.. .. .. •• 765 China — Hong Kong .. .. . • • • 3,900 Shanghai . • • • • • ■ • 8,530 Tientsin.. .. .. • • • • 200 12,630 348 India — Bombay .. •• •• •• 1,785 Calcutta .. . • • • • • 2,888 Madras 1,399 5 Rangoon .. . ■ . • •• 252 Colombo . ■ • ■ ■ • • • 50 — 6,374 Pacific and North America— Honolulu .. .. .. ■ • • • 26,200 San Francisco .. .. •• •• 1,038 4 Vancouver .. . ■ • ■ • • 426 1,215 New York .. .. •• •• 2,850 30,514 1,219 Panama Canal Zone — Cristobal .. .. .. •• •• 26,129 4 Balboa . . . . . • • • ■ ■ 12,525 38,654British West Indies — Bahamas .. .. • ■ • • • • 655 Bermudas .. .. • • • • 300 Jamaica .. .. . ■ • • • • 17,013 81 17,968 125,333 1,657