QUEENSLAND SUGAR INDUSTRY

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21988, 12 January 1937, Page 14

QUEENSLAND SUGAR INDUSTRY

RESTRICTION ON PRODUCTION ATTACKED (PSESE IaSOCIATIOX TMhiaTUM.) AUCKLAND, January 11. The conditions of sugar production In Queensland and the prolonged efforts of dissatisfied growers to have the State restrictions on production abolished were discussed in an interview by Mr J. Dossetto, deputy-chairman of the Townsville Harbour Board, who has been touring the North Island for the last three weeks,, and will leave by the Awatea. About 600,000 tons of raw sugar was grown annually in Queensland, he said. The sugar belt included Bundaberg, and then extended a distance of about 400 miles from Mackay to Cairns. This territory -was dotted with sugar mills. Until five years ago, production was unlimited, but then a sugar board was elected to control the industry* and ever since its restrictions on; the quantity to be grown annually by individual growers had caused much dissatisfaction. “I fail to see why there should be such restrictions,” said Mr Dossetto. “They limit production to the consumption of Australia, and therefore cripple what might otherwise be a profitable export industry.”