THE SUGAR COMMISSION.
GENERAL MANAGER EXAMINED. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Sydney, October 15. The Sugar Commission has resumed its sittings. The examination, of Mr. Knox, general manager of the Colonial Sugar Company, was continued. Ho expressed the opinion that the White Australia policy, as applied to North Queensland agricultural work, was hopeless. It bad not been proved that the sugar industry could be carried on in the tropics by whites, who he considered had no chance. Beet sugar was endangering the cane sugar industry in Australia. In New Zealand there was no duty on sugar; yet no beet sugar had been introduced. »
The chairman ' announced that the Commission unreservedly accepted the limitation of the enquiry imposed by the injunction of' the High Court. The Commission would accept Mr. Knox's statement, which' it had previously refused.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 127, 16 October 1912, Page 5
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