SUGAR COMMISSION
COLONIAL COMPANY’S PROFITS AND WAGES.
SYDNEY, October 19. At yesterday’s sitting of the Sugar Commission Mr E. W. Knox, general manager of the Colonial Sugar. Refining Company, produced documents showing that the company’s profits for the period 1901 to 1911 averaged 3s 6d per ton; last year they were 7s Bd. He stated that newly-introduoed Indian sugar-workers in Fiji received Is 5d a day. and those whose indentures had expired 2s, both with housing. He claimed that they were better paid than the agricultural laborer in Europe. The commission, has adjourned sine die. WHITE BETTER THAN BLACK LABOR. (Received October 20, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 19. In the course of evidence given before the Empire Trade Commission Sir T. Beebe Robinson, Agent-General for Queensland, stated that sugar could bp grown more successfully by white than by Kanaka labor.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8257, 21 October 1912, Page 7
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