SUGAR INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1937, Page 12

SUGAR INDUSTRY

REPORTS TO CONFERENCE

(British Official Wireless.) (Received May 4, 2,20 p.m.)

RUGBY, May 3.

At a plenary session of the international sugar conference today, the delegales had under examination the draft agreement, embodying a report from the negotiating committee and the report of a sub-committee on general questions, including questions relating to the definition and ascertainment of stocks. •

The sub-committee's report urged the adoption by the plenary session of the various resolutions. Among these was a proposal to the effect that steady development of sugar production could only be based on continuous expansion of world consumption on the one hand and on the other on safeguarding the interests of sugar-producing agricultural populations. The conference was urged to take all appropriate action in order to increase consumption and to guard against abuses through the use of substitutes without value as food.

Other resolutions sent to the plenary session dealt with the relation of internal prices to consumption, excessive and unjustified production, reduction of disproportionate -fiscal burdens on sugar, new and alternative' uses for sugar, and the duties of the permanent organisation to be set up under the convention.