SUGAR PRICES.
SIXPENCE PER POUND. THE NEW AGREEMENT. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. ' The Government’s new sugar scheme was completed yesterday, and Ivill come into operation immediately. The agreement between the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. and the Government, whereby the latter will control the distribution of all sugar manufactured in the Dominion, was signed on Thursday. As previously announced, the Government has purchased the whole output of raw sugar from Fiji, and this will be refined and distributed on its behalf by the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. New prices will come into operation on Monday, and the retail price will probably be sixpence per pound in the chief centres.
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Waipa Post, Volume XVII, Issue 963, 3 July 1920, Page 5
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