JAM AND SUGAR
THE AUSTRALIAN IMPORTATION QUESTION.
(Pxb United Puss Association*) . • 1 WELLINGTON, August ». Mr W. G. M‘Donald, chairman of As Board of Trade, with the authority of the Hon. G. J. Anderson, Acting Minister of Industries and Commerce, to-day an important statement with reference to the Order-in-Council prohibiting the importation of Australian jam and preserves. ‘SCtertain newspaper critics,” said Mr MDonald, ‘‘have not given adequate thought to the facte necessitating prompt Government action to safeguard the dominion’s fruitgrowing and jam industries against the disastrous effects of unrestricted ft satis tin n dumping. The order was not aimed against cheapness of jam, but against the unfair competition of bounty-fed imports, ' Australian jam makers pay about ,the same price for sugar os New Zealand rwanrifti/v. turers do, but to enable Australian makers to develop - an external trade the common •; wealth is controlling the sugar trade, end recently granted a refund of £2D_per ton on sugar used in exported jam. reduction gives the AustraLain jam maker a verylarge margin to undersell New Zealand manufacturers. The New Zealand Government had not statutory power to impnae a duty offsetting the bounty or to grant on equal bounty to dominion makers. .The only practicable course, therefore, wjaeTFhat which had been taken; otherwise the, Australian jam industry would have benefited at the expenee of the New Zealand fruitgrowing industry, which is juat hqw- ’-recovering after the difficult war years:' 'Tfc had been shown that the British sugar refining industry was almost totally annihilated by the unrestricted competition of' bounty-fed German and other Continental sugar. As Australia's £2O rebate sppHod only to sugar used for export jam, the New Zealand Government was obliged to take'an effective action against t£e scheme to help the Australian industry in a measure proportionate to the injury inflicted OnAisußilar industry in the dominion.” , /
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18320, 10 August 1921, Page 7
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301JAM AND SUGAR Otago Daily Times, Issue 18320, 10 August 1921, Page 7
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