FURTHER FALL IN PRICE OF SUGAR

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 124, 29 May 1933, Page 10

FURTHER FALL IN PRICE OF SUGAR

A further fall in the price of sugar, operative as from today, is announced by the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. The prices of all grades of raw and refined sugars, golden syrup, and treacle are today down by 10s per ton. The prices of tablets and icing sugar remain unaltered. A decrease of 10s a ton in the wholesale price of sugar took effect as recently as May 19. There was a similar fall in. May last year. The new prices are as follows: —Brew^ ers' crystals, £26 a ton; No. 1 coarse grain, £25 ss; No. 1A fine grain. £24 10*; No. 2 soft,'£24; No. 3 yellow ration, £.'23 L Reductions have been made in the pi'icf) of golden syrup and treacle. At this time last year prices wore £-'6 /is a ton lower. There was an increase oi; £1 a ton in July and of 10s a ton in August. In October the prices declined by 15s a ton, but were increased by 10s in January this year. The raising of the sug;ar duties caused an advance of £5 a' ton, in February and this was followed by a i urthor rise of 10s in February.