FEDERAL POLITICS.
S uG AR TARIFF. MELBOURNE, October 13. Tn the House of Representatives, Mr Hughes, in vindicating the Government’s action in fixing a sugar tariff, explained that it would enable people to obtain sugar at 4 Ad per lb. Mr Charlton said that L Lour preferred a continuance of the agreement. Air Watt moved an amendment that the duty on sugar, the product of cane, both raw and white, be £9 6s Sd per ton. This was carried against the Government by 30 to 24. Tiie Minister for Customs moved the same duty on invert sugar and invert syrup, and £4 13s 4d on syrups. This also was carried.
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Grey River Argus, 14 October 1922, Page 5
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