SUGAR SUPPLIES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16731, 14 January 1920, Page 6

SUGAR SUPPLIES.

METHOD OF ALLOTMENT., Enquiries made in town yesterday regarding the sugar suppl.es available, indicated that stocks arc extremely low, Jli; j j„ tho ease of somo retailers aio practically non-existent. U was ascertained that the Colonial. Sii'-.ir Company's distributing agents in I nn-t.iuirrn wore awaiting advice of the departure t'rom Auckland ot tne UMiner Monowai. and also of the quan- ■ • . , • -iii'': ate yesterday ( titv siii* i"» ' , , , Von,eon tins advice had not kvh re-, eeivod The opinion was expressed that it was' unlikely that there would bo any . augmentation of local supplies this j week, thoujjh relief might he expected, earlv next week. I <i'x firm® hare been appointed by the Colonial ?uc*r Company a« distributing a cents in Christclni-rh. and. during the v'u rt i-re a; least, the representatives ot , the<e' firms will meet and jointly al ot snnoli~s from each shipment. Hy tins: means it is believed that an e.piitab.o distribution of the available Mtppl.es; w ; ll ho offer ted. It is proposed, so it U understood, to make a proportionate; allotment of available supplies to all, retailers. Thin, if one retailer wants, one ton. and another half a ton. and it ,s found, in view of tlie total 'atM>li<a-j tions made, that there is not. Mifl.nent , Micar available to give the lull quantities annlied for, a quantity proportionately'rcdureil will l>o allotted. On | ihe other hand it will be futile on tlie| pu t of nnv retailer to apply for a ■ l : ,;-r-.-r ouantiiv ihan be ha< boon in tho hal Tit ot getting in tiie ordinary way of, business; it will b,> equally lutile for ,nv retailer to attempt to ,et additional applies from any merchant other 1 than the merchant he ha* been in the habit of dealing with. Only thus it, is stated, can the position be met that | has arisen out of the shortage ol sup-1

ill ins. >nme pronlo whoso sugar requirements have* Wn urgent, have pone fairlv far afield to pot a supply . It reported, for instance, that a Christchureh man was succossful in purchasing a bar? from a store in Tinwalcl. Another indication of how linrdlv pressed users of sugar liave heen is piven hv the fart that ,Tava_ sugar has l>eon bought in pvdney for New Zealand consumers at .L'(">o per ton, f.o.h. Sydney - an exceedin"lv high nrioo as compared with the Colonial Supar Companys priro of JC-3 los per ton Auckland.