DUTY ON SUGAR.
PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE N.S.W. COMMISSION. QUEENSLAND’S POSITION. " Sydney, February 22. s At the Sugar Commission a witness gave evidence that the Colonial and Maliquin Companies always raised and lowered prices simultaneously. This suggested an understanding. A number of wholesale merchants declared that they dealt largely with the Colonial Company’s sugar and that the profit was practically nil. Ihe sugar duty was generally condemned. In contradiction of a witness the chairman declared that the evidence in North Queensland stated that the country was suitable for nothing hut sugar. Rice, cotton, dairying, -tc.. had been tried and had failed.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 51, 24 February 1912, Page 3
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100DUTY ON SUGAR. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 51, 24 February 1912, Page 3
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