“Yon take it from me that numbers count in a deputation to Parliament,” said Mr P. Nathan at the annual meeting of the National Dairy Association at Palmerston yesterday. “You send five or six in a deputation and they give you an evasive answer. Send a few hundred and you will find the reply very different.” Tho Minister for Commerce (Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald) stated yesterday that the arrangement with the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, limiting the price of sugar, expired at the end of this month, and the Government had entered into a fresh arrangement with the company for another year, at an increase of £1 a ton.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9692, 21 June 1917, Page 6
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