SUGAR BOUNTIES.
The exports of beetroot sugar from .France to England have so largely increased that they have risen from six per cent, to 50 per cent, of the total consumption of the United Kingdom. The export bounty enables the French merchant to sell these sugars at a lower price in England than they are sold at in France. Naturally there is great outcry among the sugar growers of the West Indies and other English colonies, and among the sugar refiners at home. They have formed an association and sought to induce the Government to take up the case. Mr Gladstone declines to accept their suggestions, and quotes statistics to show that they must be mistaken. Statistics are a poor consolation to those who feel their industry distressed, aud the association has replied with a strong protest against a system which aided the foreign producer by bounties to destroy or damage a British industry on its ownjnational soil. Most Colonial people will think the association and not Mr Gladstone in the right.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1697, 12 June 1884, Page 2
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172SUGAR BOUNTIES. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1697, 12 June 1884, Page 2
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