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SHIPMENT OF BUTTER AND CHEESE TO MARKETS OUTSIDE THE UNITED KINGDOM—continued

Notes. —(a) Ex India. (6) Ex Australia. (c) 50 per cent, each Australia - New (d) Including ships' stores requirements. (e) Including 95 tons for Admiralty. (/) Including 50 tons for Admiralty. (g) 300 tons Australia - New Zealand, balance India. . The qualification for shipment to these countries was that a duly authenticated import licence should be issued by the importing country before an export licence was issued by the supplying country. It should be noted that the destinations named were all dependent pre-war on the importation of butter and cheese to meet their necessary requirements. The quantities named were the maximum they could obtain from all sources of supply, and New Zealand was free to supply these destinations, provided the orders could be obtained.

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!' ■ •'» I. : . : — Butter. Cheese. Ghee. Tons. Tons. Tons. Malaya 700 200 1,000 (g) India (ships' stores) 50 25 Malta 360 720 Mauritius 200 52 "50 Middle East — Aden 36 12 Cyprus 20 Cyrenaica 1 Egypt 50 Egypt (ships' stores) 210 90 Eritrea Ethiopia French Somaliland 10 2 Iraq 2 20 Lebanon Palestine 1,500 1,000 Persia Saudi Arabia 5 10 Sudan 5 10 Syria Trans jordan Tripolitania New Hebrides "34 7 Nigeria 1 23 Northern Rhodesia 268 22 Nyasaland 2 16 Oil companies— A.I.O.C., Abadan 46 46 83 (b) Iraq Petroleum 44 38J 100 (b) Kuwait Oil Co. 3 3 35 (b) Texas Oil Co., Bahrein 5 9 Shell Petroleum — Curacao 7 Netherlands East Indies 15 St. Helena-Ascension 8 "l3 Sarawak 12 1 Seychelles 12 3 Sierra Leone 77 17 Solomons 5 1 South Africa 50 [ Southern Rhodesia *350 Tanganyika Tonga .. .. .. .. 16 3 Zanzibar 29 3 I Total .. .. .. 8,502 5,332i 1,897