SUGAR TRUST IN NEW ZEALAND

West Coast Times, 20 April 1911, Page 2

SUGAR TRUST IN NEW ZEALAND

PROTEST FROM GREYMOUTH

ALLEGED DISCRIMINATION.

I’BU PIIF.SS *.KSOCIATION.—COPTItIO 11T. 5 . GREYMOUTH, April, 19. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to-night, considerable discussion took place upon an alleged Sugar Trust said to bo existing in the Dominion. The following resolution wan carried unanimously; —tliis Chamber condemns the tactics of t InSugar Company, in arranging with :i lew commercial houses in Now Zealand to the detriment of the public. It was alleged that tho Sugar Company refuse to allow any bonus on di'rcct purchases, except to tho value of £SOO, and over, and that it practically moans that the public contribute two and a half per cent, upon the gross consumption of sugar in the Dominion, to four or five commercial houses.