HIGH-PRICED SUGAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 215, 11 September 1929, Page 4

HIGH-PRICED SUGAR.

"The sugar embargo is costing Australia £7,000,000 a year more than it should pay,' begins a statement which has been sent by the Town and Country Union to the Premier of each State of the Commonwealth, with a request that the strongest possible representations be made to the Federal Ministry to have the embargo removed at the earliest possible moment. Housewives pay 4%d a lb for sugar instead of 2d a lb, says the statement. If the embargo were removed, Java white sugar could be landed in Australia to-day at £10 ,10/ a ton. Australian Al T« e , ugar ie m]d for household use at ±36 10/ a ton; and for use in the making ame / canned f F uits > sweets, etc. at £30 10/,-a ton. Manufacturers of jams etc., are compelled to pass on the increased price to the consumers, and they suffer a diminution of trade in consequence. Estimating the consumption of sugar in Australia at 300,000 tons and allowing a rebate to manufacturers of £6 a ton on 40 000 lTJ%:sso nal cosfc to consumers k