SUGAR SHORTAGE

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 March 1920, Page 5

SUGAR SHORTAGE

' GREYMOUTE SUPPLIES, A NEW SCHEME. An arrangement was arrived at today whereby the distribution of sugar' will be more equitable throyghout the Greymouth district,. ... Mr. P. Hally, a member of the Board of Trade, was deputed'to try arid arrange for the bVt'ter distribution of "sugar, and met the merchants at the Courthouse this morning when the matter was fully discussed. '. - A

« Vi Hall)', who was interviewed by a ..''Star" reporter to-day, said that the.shortage was due to the fact that people had been -hoarding sugar in anticipation of an increase in price, which never actually eventusited. At the'meeting of 'merchants it was decided that, in future, retailers must order their supplltes through one merchant. Thisr was in order to prevent duplication and supplies begiven to one retailer at the expense of another." ' The merchants have formed a committee, with Mr. lib McGflaslian as convener, and the scheme' will he put!' straightaway.' ' ,- ''The'quantity of sugar; being produced at the. present time;'/; eaid Mr. Hallv, {'is as much as it was,two/or three years "..ago when' there was no fihjpi'tage:" The Colonial Sugar Company are'piittthg out'2oo tons a day and' that was "their maximum at any period ; but; hmfoi-tunately, ; P«W"> {hafet been hoai-ding and have tjhtis cairsed the shortage."; % ,;