1. INDIAN WORKER IN FIELD OF SUGAR CANE. 2. "EXPRESS" THAT CONVEYED THE NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENTARY PARTY FROM MILLS TO PLANTATION. 3. A TRAIN LOAD OF SUGAR ON THE WAY FROM THE MILLS FOR SHIPMENT AT THE PORT. The difficulty in obtaining sugar in quantity, culminating in a cessation of operations at the Chelsea refinery from causes that were in no way connected with the earlier difficulties in obtaining supplies, has served to direct public attention to the source of our sugar. Practically all the sugar consumed in the Dominion comes from Fiji, and there the bulk of the cane is grown in the Rewa River basin. The photographs reproduced above were taken by the official photographers on the occasion of the recent Parliamentary trip to the Islands.- They unfortunately do not give any idea of the process through which the sugar passes before it comes to Auckland, but they do at least convey some conception of the immense size of the works, and the fact that a oig permanent railway system is a necessary adjunct in handling the hundreds of thousands of tons of cane that annually pass through the rollers. Before the sugar leaves Suva it has been converted into a coarse sample of the article of commerce, and it is only the process of refining this for the production of the grades sold to the public that is carried on at Chelsea.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 206, 28 August 1920, Page 17

1. INDIAN WORKER IN FIELD OF SUGAR CANE. 2. "EXPRESS" THAT CONVEYED THE NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENTARY PARTY FROM MILLS TO PLANTATION. 3. A TRAIN LOAD OF SUGAR ON THE WAY FROM THE MILLS FOR SHIPMENT AT THE PORT. The difficulty in obtaining sugar in quantity, culminating in a cessation of operations at the Chelsea refinery from causes that were in no way connected with the earlier difficulties in obtaining supplies, has served to direct public attention to the source of our sugar. Practically all the sugar consumed in the Dominion comes from Fiji, and there the bulk of the cane is grown in the Rewa River basin. The photographs reproduced above were taken by the official photographers on the occasion of the recent Parliamentary trip to the Islands.- They unfortunately do not give any idea of the process through which the sugar passes before it comes to Auckland, but they do at least convey some conception of the immense size of the works, and the fact that a oig permanent railway system is a necessary adjunct in handling the hundreds of thousands of tons of cane that annually pass through the rollers. Before the sugar leaves Suva it has been converted into a coarse sample of the article of commerce, and it is only the process of refining this for the production of the grades sold to the public that is carried on at Chelsea.