SUGAR SUPPLIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 5 July 1923, Page 2

SUGAR SUPPLIES.

HOARDING SUGGESTED. , CB* Tl__U«.Ai-tt HKKSS ASSOCIATION.) • _ WELLINGTON. July 3. Information regarding the supply of sugar was noggin, in tne no use m-mgnc Oy the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. T. M. Wiltord). He-had been told tnere was a shortage of supples and that the price was likely to go up. i 'i'nt Minister oi uus corns replied that there was a eomlict or opinion oetween his oiiicers and tne public as to wnether or not there was a shortage. Daring the jam season some 50uu tons had been supplied this year in excess of last year, and supplies generally were larger. What ins officers thought was that private individuals were hoarding against a possible rise in price. Mr. Wilrord: Will the Board of Trade see that there is no profiteering:'' The Hon. W. D. Ste»vart replied that the price had. not gone up for twelve months, and he understood that Java sugar was coming down. The committed of industries and commerce, which was considering the matter,, was seized of all the facts and was endeavouring to diagnose what was likely to happen when Government control expired. They would have to work out some arrangement which would make matters ran smoothly when that time came.