SUGAR BY POST
THE PROHIBITION IN ENGLAND v Reference to the embargo on the sending of sugar through the post to people in the Old. Country was made in the House of EeprescnUtives by Mr. Tiilbot yesterday afternoon. A great many of the patriotic societies, lie said, had been sending parcels of sugar to the boys atthe front and in England, and they had moro sugar in hand ready to send. They, therefore, wanted to know the. position. The Hon A. M. Myers (Minister of •Customs), to whom Mr. Talbot addressed his question, stated that in the meanwhile the Post Office officials refused to send forward any food parcels containing sugar, owing to the- special instructions received from tho Imperial authorities. Hβ had just been advised by tho Minister of Defence that he had sent a cablegram to the High Commissioner asking him to cable out the exact position regarding tho forwarding of parcels of sugar to New Zealand soldiers. Mr. Young: Is thero a shortage of sugar at Home? The Prime Minister: Yea.' They have hardly any. Mr. Young: Then why do they refuse to take it from-us?
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 15, 12 October 1917, Page 3
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189SUGAR BY POST Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 15, 12 October 1917, Page 3
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