BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY
VOTE FOE SUBSIDY PASSED. (Pr 6»»» Association—Bv Telegrapn—(?opyngQt ) LONDON, December 15. (Received Dec. 16, at 0.30 a.m.) Discussing the beet sugar subsidy, Mr Runciman complained in the House of Commons that it would reach the staggering total of £20,000.000 in the course of 10 years. Moreover, the lion’s share was going to the factory owners and not to the farmers. . . The Minister of Agriculture, justifying the subsidy, said that 19 beet sugar factories were now in operation. The vote was agreed to.—A. and Is.Z. and Sydney Sun Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20283, 16 December 1927, Page 11
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