SUGAR PRODUCTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22205, 7 March 1934, Page 7

SUGAR PRODUCTION

SCHEME FOR REGULATION

BRITAIN ANXIOUS TO'. ASSIST. LONDON, March 5. Presiding at the Sugar; Conference, the Earl of. Plymouth said that Britain was anxious to assist in the scheme to regulate the world's sugar production. She preferred a solution of such problems in the form of a general international agreement. to isolated action by Individual countries. The consumption of sugar in recent years had tended to decline. They could not ignore the strong reasons of national policy which had led many countries into a policy of State encouragement of sugar production*. Australia and South Africa were not represented, as the. conveners of the conference Were satisfied with the explanations given at the World Economic Conference, but they ; would doubtless be included in the fuller 'conference envisaged later. ; .; ,

CONFERENCE PROBABLE.

LONDON, March 5.

In order to ascertain whether the prospect of agreement justified a world conference in the hope of achieving regulation of sugar production, representatives of the principal exporting countries are conferring in camera under the chairmanship of Lord Plymouth. The dominions were not invited. .'V