FIFTY YEARS AGO
WAIKATO SUGAR PROJECT Attempts to revive interest in the growing of sugar beet in the Waikato and the establishment of a factory were being made 50 rears ago. The following appeared in the New Zealand HebaW of August 1, ISB9: — "The suggestions made with reference to the revival ofslKe sugar beet question for the Waikato have not been without results. Another, and it is to bjj hoped more successful, effort-is -to be made to awaken the settlers of t ® Waikato to'the advantages which such an industry would secure to'them. With a population of, say, 70,000 F" sons, the Auckland sugar bill is somewhere about iJIOOjOOO-per annum, a subscribed-capital of little more ' half this amount, which (at a rate 27s a head, the average consumption of sugar in" New Zealand) goes 0,1 the colony,' wouldstart & sugar fac _ . in full operation and turn the prese> depression in agricultural r . the Waikato into unexampled prosper ity."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23413, 1 August 1939, Page 6
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