DUTY ON SUGAR

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 14, 17 July 1923, Page 8

DUTY ON SUGAR

RESOLUTIONS BEFORE HOUSE.

' One of the first matters! likely to come before the House of Representatives this afternoon will be the recommendation of the Industries and Commerce Committee that a duty of 546t1i8 of a Id be imposed. on refined sugar for twelve months.- As stated by the Minister-of Customs (Hon. W. Downie Stewart) last week, the .Committee had investigated the sugar position at his request, and the Colonial Sugar Company agreed to continue refining provided the duty was imposed to enable it to compete with Javan product. Raw sugar, it was proposed, should be allowed in free,: and the duty on:iefined sugar would remain in force until 30th September, 1924. The amount of the proposed duty ! worked out at £2 18s 4d per.ton. 'The company had indicated that unless it was i given.Borne protection it would be forced to close down its Auckland refining j works. 1 In the event of the- resolutions coming i on, this afternoon, there is a possibility lof the subject being keenly debated. • \- i Other business to come before the House to-day will be the adjourned debate on the second reading of the State Advances Bill, tho Sale of Food and Drugs Bill, Insurance Companies Deposits Bill, and Justices of the Peace Bill i (No. 2), each of which is to be submitted for its Becond reading.