WEST INDIES SUGAR
BRITISH COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE British Official Wireless Reed. 11.5 a.m. RUGBY, Wednesday. It was recently stated that the Colonial Secretary had decided to send out a mission, assisted by experts, to the West Indies and British Guiana, to investigate the state of the sugar industry there. It is now officially announced that the commissioner will be Lord Olivier. He will sail at the end of September. The task of the mission will be to consider what improvements can be introduced to meet foreign competition, and in what way any aid that may be found possible can best be applied with this object. Lord Olivier was formerly Governor of Jamaica. He was Secretary for India in the Labour Government of 1924.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 748, 22 August 1929, Page 9
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