FAIR PRICE FOR SUGAR.
MR DENHAM SATS £23. GROWERS WANT MORE DUTY BRISBANE, this day. Mr D. F. Denham (State Premier) speaking to the delegates at the half yearly mpeting of the. Australian Svga Producers' Association, expressed dis appointment at the manner in which th< other States had treated the industry As the New South Wales Food Commis sion had not announced a price, hi thought the Colonial Sugar Compan; should inimcdiatedw declare a. price o not less than £2:5 a ton. He believed £2J was a fair thing, but no one could quibbl at £23. Even Mr Fisher recognised tha as a fair price. The council at n meeting of the Assc ciation gave the executive power to tak any steps, judicial or otherwise, t> secure an increased price, and instructs it to press for an increase of the dut; to £7 a ton.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 50, 27 February 1915, Page 9
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