SUGAR DUMPING
A SERIOUS EFFECT. BRITISH REFINERIES CLOSING. THOUSANDS OF EMPLOYEES AFFECTED. (Rec. 8.5 pjn.) London, October 27. Britain’s largest cane sugar refinery, that of Tate and Lyle at Plaistow Wharf, where 2600 hands are employed, is closing down owing to the dumping of 100,000 tons of foreign sugar, in addition to 150,000 tons from subsidised home-grown sugar beet. Another Tate and Lyles factory at Silvertown, where 2400 are employed, is working half-time and may have to be closed. The same fate may await a third factory at Liverpool, employing 2000. —A. & N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20013, 29 October 1926, Page 7
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93SUGAR DUMPING Southland Times, Issue 20013, 29 October 1926, Page 7
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