SUGAR BEET

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160725, 11 August 1920, Page 9

SUGAR BEET

COMPREHENSIVE SOUTH ISLAND SCHEME . (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 11. At the Central Chamber of Commerce meeting, the chairman said that he had received a letter from Christchurch stating that it was intended to start tho tect sugar industry in the South Island, and he hoped that a similar industry would be started in the North Island. In the South Island, it was proposed to put down three thousand acres at a cost approximately of a quarter of a million.