HEAVY SUGAR STOCKS
A statement that the Colonial Sugar Refining Company lias some thousands of tons of refined sugar“in slock at the Chelsea works was made by the works manager, Mr. A. Campbell, under cross-examina-tion during the hearing of the sugar workers’ dispute at Auckland on Thursday. Mr. Campbell said the cahse of the iccumulation was simply thei the public, was not buying sugar. The contract with the Government would expire at the end of this month, and what would happen then he was unable to say. There was, however, a general conviction, on more or less reliable grounds, that there would be a reduction in the price. In answer to Mr. Justice Frazer, witness said Java sugar bad also been a disturbing factor, but be did not think it would be so any longer.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume 49, Issue 7743, 12 July 1921, Page 4
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