LARGER CROP OF SUGAR EXPECTED
Received Thursdav, 8.30 p.m. SYDNEY, June 6. I The Australian sugar crop for 1 940 i ,is expected to yield 660/100 tons eonipared witli 641),' '000 for 1945 and 645, 000 for 1.944. These figures were given by ! the clia.irma.il, Mr. E. R. Knox, at tlie' amuial njeeting of tlie Colonial Sugar Relining Conipany, Limited. The com- : pany, which owns seven uiills of a total of 3(5, made 145,000 tons of raw sugar! last year coinpareil with 127,000 tons in ! 15)44. Strikes and the manpower short-; ages eaused delieieneies of relined ]>ro-: ducts in- several Slates. These diflicul- 1 ttes and a roduetion in the deniand from Ihe Services, reduced total saies of relined products by 31,000 tons to 45)4,000 tons for tlie year. Australian reflneries had been proilucing in recent years about thirty per cent. more than prewar, The inerease had been largelv al>sorbeil by ser\ico needs.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 June 1946, Page 5
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