QUEENSLAND SUGAR CROP.
An official acquisition, of the currant eeason's cane crop by the Queensland Government, and the payment of the Australian price for -70 per cent, of the I crop and tb« world'* parity for 80 per cent.. I has been made b> the Acting-Premier .of Queensland, Mr Forgan 'Smith. He said that o*in» to unfavourable weather in moat of" the sugar districts at the, beginning, of the year the estimate 'for the crop,; which > early in the year promised a yield .nearly as large as last., season!* output of. 600,000' tons of .au'gar. '"has been considerably reduced. The latest' estimates "indicated .' * production of only about -120,000 tons 61 . engar. .. • .." •.'..''
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18723, 21 June 1926, Page 11
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111QUEENSLAND SUGAR CROP. Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18723, 21 June 1926, Page 11
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