QUEENSLAND SUGAR
APPEAL FOR LOWER PRICE. GOVERNMENTS ATTITUDE. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Brisbane, July 28. At the conference called to discuss the sugar agreement Senator McLachlan, on behalf of the Federal Government, appealed for a reduction in the domestic price of sugar. He said the Commonwealth Government was in no sense hostile to the Australian sugar industry. The Premier, Mr Forgan Smith, made it plain that so far as the Queensland Government was concerned as one party to the contract, the agreement would stand. It seemed extraordinary to him that whereas the Ottawa Conference was considering raising price levels they should be having a conference at which they were asked to reduce price levels. His Government took the view that an agreement which was entered into, after a complete and exhaustive inquiry, should be honoured by both Governments in its entirety, and the conditions of the industry should not in any way be disturbed.
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Southland Times, Issue 21772, 29 July 1932, Page 5
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154QUEENSLAND SUGAR Southland Times, Issue 21772, 29 July 1932, Page 5
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