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IMPERIAL POLITICS. ♦ THE SUGAR CONVENTION/ United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph — Copyright. (Received March 29, 8.53 a.m.) LONDON, March 28. .The Sugar Convention was debated in the House of Commons. The Government declined at present to consider the policy of withdrawing from the Convention, on. the ground that there were still two and a half yearfc to run. Mr Lloyd George insisted that the Convention did not benefit the West Indies, while the fluctuation in the price of sugar had bean, considerable. Mr Chamberlain, eaid that th« country had not lost a penny through the Convention, while the ' sugar colonies had derived advantage from it.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8585, 29 March 1906, Page 2
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