STATEMENT THAT CAUSES A SENSATION
* — m COLONIAL SUGAR COMPANY AND CUSTOMS DUTIES. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.- Copyright.) MELBOURNE. 19th August. Mr. F. G. Tudor, Minister for Trade and Customs in the late Fisher Ministry, created a sensation in the Federal House of Representatives by stating that the Government had proclaimed the Sugar Bounty and Excise Abolition Act at a time when the Colonial Sugar Company held huge reserves, upon which duties amounting to £100,000 would have been levied had the proclamation been slightly delayed.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 44, 20 August 1913, Page 7
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84STATEMENT THAT CAUSES A SENSATION Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 44, 20 August 1913, Page 7
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