SUGAR INDUSTRY.
MISSION TO WEST INDIES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Aug. 21. It was recently stated that the Colonial Secretary, Lord Passfield, had decided to send out a mission, assisted by experts, to the West Indies and British Guiana to investigate the state of the sugar industry there. It is now officially announced that the Commissioner will be Lord Olivier. He will sail at the end of September. The task of the mission will be to consider what improvements can be introduced to meet foreign competition, and in what way any aid that may be found possible can best be applied with this object. Lord Olivier was formerly Governor of Jamaica. He was Secretary tor India in the Labour Government ol 1924.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 226, 23 August 1929, Page 7
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