— The total production of suear throughout the world is about 2,000,000 tons per annum. Of this quantity nine-tenths are afforded by the sugar-cane, 25,000,000-tons of which aw required; to produce the above quantity of cano sugar. The average of saccharine, matter in the ripe West Indian sugar-cane is from 18 to 21 per cent,, , of which only 8 per cent, is available. to commerce. The total value of the sugar in the cane, if it conid be extracted, would be about £40,000,000, but one-half is lost in .the process* of manufacture,.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13206, 13 February 1905, Page 3
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