SUGAR CONFERENCE

Evening Star, Issue 22595, 12 March 1937, Page 9

SUGAR CONFERENCE

BRITISH COLONIAL PRODUCERS INTERESTS TO BE SAFEGUARDED (British Official Wireless.) freii Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, March 10. The forthcoming International Sugar Conference figured largely during question time in the House of Commons. The Colonial Secretary (Mr W. G. 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 1835, 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 and regard must be paid to the fact that the principal foreign sugar exporters had reduced their production substantially, while British colonial production had been expanding, but, subject to that, the desirability of ensuring that the British colonial empire • mid receive a fair share of any •rase in the Home demand for sugar Id be borne in mind. The House r > might be assured that an agreei it involving regulation of the exports of British colonies would not be applied to them unless it also covered all countries whose production vas important for the world market. Mr Ormsby-Gore also stated that he had arranged that a committee of representatives of the principal colonial producers would be available for consultation with the British delegation to the conference.