BRITAIN SENDING 10,000 TONS OF SUGAR TO N.Z.

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23091, 2 November 1949, Page 8

BRITAIN SENDING 10,000 TONS OF SUGAR TO N.Z.

(PA) AUCKLAND, Nov. 1. The output of sugar from the ChelS ea refinery was more than sufficient to meet tlie present requirements in New Zealand. Mr. J. P. Wilman, manager of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, said today. He was commenting on a newspaper report from Wellington that sugar was being imported from Britain because the refinery could not cope with its ordersMr. Wilman explained that 10,000 tons of refined sugar were being imported from Britain to build up stocks. This was necessary to provide against possible shipping delays to the south and also lo provide for the refinery workers’ annual holiday period when the Chelsea works were closed. The Wellington report stated that the first part of 10,000 tons of sugar being imported from Britain had reached New Zealand and was being unloaded at Wellington. The remainder would arrive in the Port Chalmers, which is due about November 10. the Port Dunedin, due early in December, the Orari, due late in the same month, and the Matnroa, which is scheduled to arrive towards the end of January. Because of labour difficulties. New Zealand’s one sugar refinery in New Zealand, at Auckland, had been unable to cope with its orders, added the Wellington report. A representative of the Grain Forwarding Company, which is handling the sugar distribution to merchants, said it was the first time within his knowledge that refined sugar had been imported from the United Kingdom.