SUGAR INDUSTRY INQUIRY
CONDEMNATION OF THE DUTY. By Telefftaph.— A«ociation Copyright. > : * Sydney, February 23. V 1 Giving evidence before the Sugar Commission, a witness stated that the Colonial and Millaquin companies always raised and lowered prices simultaneously. This suggested an understanding. A number of wholesale merchants dc« clared that they dealt largely with the Colonial Company's sugar, and profit was practically nil. Tho sugar duty was generally condemned.
In contradiction of a witness jtfco chairman declared that in evidence in North] Queensland it was stated that the country; was suitable for nothing but sugar. Rice' cotton, dairying, had been tried,, butj had failed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14925, 24 February 1912, Page 7
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103SUGAR INDUSTRY INQUIRY New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14925, 24 February 1912, Page 7
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