SUGAR EXPORTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1937, Page 9

SUGAR EXPORTS

BRITISH COLONIES

QUESTION OF QUOTAS

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, March 10.

The forthcoming International Sugar Conference figured largely in the House of Commons at question time. The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. W. Ormsby-Gore), who stated that exports of sugar from British colonies had been 782,000 tons in 1933 751,000 tons in 1934, 851,000 tons in 1935, and 1,000,000 tons last year, said that in considering any suggestion at the conference of a quota for British colonies, the latest figures would be taken into account. Regard must be paid, he said, to the fact that the principal foreign sugar exporters had reduced their production substantially, while British colonial production had been expanding, biu subject to that the desirability of ensuring that the British Colonial Empire should receive a fair share of any increase in the home demand for sugar would be borne in mind. The House also might be assured that an agreement involving regulation of the exports of British ' .colonies would not be applied to them unless it also covered all countries whose production was important for the world Mr. Ormsby-Gore also stated that he had arranged for a committee of representatives of the principal colonial producers to be available for consultation with the British delegation to the conference. •