DUTY ON SUGAR.
EVIDENCE BEFORE THE NEW SOUTH WHALES COMMISSION. ; • JAM MAKERS SATISFIED. '-cut- (Received 22, 9.40 a.m.) Sydney, February 22.'; At the Sugar Commission two ‘on manufacturers, in evidence, said they were perfectly satisfied .vitb the man ner in which they were treated In too Sugar Company. They consideret the duty of £6 per ton all eventually came out of the profits of the industry. This meant an annual charge on the people of £1,350,000 per year It would be greater in the future, ag gregating fifteen millions in the nex ten years. The duty tended to develop Queensland at the expense oi other • States.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 49, 22 February 1912, Page 5
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106DUTY ON SUGAR. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 49, 22 February 1912, Page 5
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