SUGAR-BEET GROWING
BRIGHT SPOT IN ENGLISH. AGRICULTURE. London, April 12. Speaking at the luncheon of the British Sugar-beet Growers’ Society. Sir Francis Floud said that he had every reason to suppose that rhe present Government would continue its remission ofsthe excise duty on home-grown sugar, which, he said, was the one bright spot in agriculture. Mr. H. G. Roberts, M.P. (Norwich), said that this year the two lactones at Kelham and Cantley bad contracted for 15.0T0 acres, with Ihe employment of 1500 labourers He hoped that in the near future there would I twenty oth6r factories. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. •
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 177, 14 April 1923, Page 7
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