THE PRICE OF SUGAR.
« AGITATION IN ENGLAND. REPEAL OF THE CONVENTION WANTED. frRESS ASSOCIATION.]' LONDON, 26th Novembei . Large confectionery and jam manufacturing firms complain that the operations of the Sugar Bounties Convention are causing them to pay high prices for sugar. They demand the repeal of the Sugar Convention Act. The West Indian Committee and others reply that the rise in prices is the result of the failure of the Continental beet crop, owing to drought. Mr. 'Mathieso.n, a director of the firm of Clarke, Nickolls, and Coombs, confectionery manufacturers, Hackney (London), attributes the rise to sudden increased consumption abroad, and also because the Convention shuts out half a million tons of Russian and other bounty-fed sugar. Mr. Czarmkow, a well-known broker, states that the exports of confectionery during the la3t ten months amounted to 357,982cwt, compared with 265,526 cwt in 1903.
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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 129, 28 November 1904, Page 5
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142THE PRICE OF SUGAR. Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 129, 28 November 1904, Page 5
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