IMPERIAL POLITICS.
BOUNTY FED SUGAR. Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright Received' 10.45 p.m., Jnlv sth. ; LONDON, July 5. In the House of Lord*, Lord Denbigh ■stated that the Government's denunciation of the penal clause in the Brussrel's sugar convention had caused the aTaandolimenfc of: the anovement to establish a sugar beet factory at Seaford which would have employed 120 men. - '■-, Lord Lansdowiie said that the sugar/ producing colonies regarded the Government's action with theprofoundest; dismay. .If British markets '-were reopened to bounty-fed sugar thei 'keystone eff the convention would be, withdrawn. Lord FitzMaurice declared that the abolition of the conventioni system and the free introduction of sugar would provide more employment than aiiy artificial arrange-' ments. ' '.'*.- ""(.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13330, 6 July 1907, Page 5
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