SUGAR SUPPLIES

Otago Witness, Issue 3510, 21 June 1921, Page 26

SUGAR SUPPLIES

AN OFFER FROM JAVA. WELLINGTON. June 14. Tho eontind hotw< en .tin' Government end the Colonial Sugar Company for a supply of sugar at 6<i per p uimi expires at the • lid of the present month. Meantime, Ihe Government h r. been offered by -Messrs Burns. Phil)', ami Co. 5003 inns of Java sugar at £23 10- per ion. As this is cheaper Ilian ihe price now being paid to the Sugar Com;: any, it is suggested m the Non Zen • laud Times that there may be an Order-in-C.i’JiKi! gazetted preventing the importation of Jav i ruga". As far as I can ascertain. there ai" in grounds for tills statoi';r"-!. The h:u rum made by (lip Government iast year with the Colonial Sugar < oinpnny saved Now Zealand consumers I undi-eds of thousands of pounds, and the people got a good r-urplv of sugar. It was of good quality and the price was remarkably reasonable considering what r.tlu ■ mi,nil in- were Having for tiro,- sugar, la: It;, ml all ild-,' N. w /• ..land has C. consider tlm important question of constant supplies, and though Java sugar may now he available in considerable quantify and at a fairly cheap rate, there is no telling what :is cost will be, say, sa:-. months hence, nor whether it would lie available ill sufficient quantity to meet Nr v Zi ilto.l wants. In the meantime, the Government has no statement to make on the subject.