NEW ZEALANDERS MAY GET MORE SUGAR

Chronicle (Levin), 31 July 1947, Page 5

NEW ZEALANDERS MAY GET MORE SUGAR

WELLINGTON, July 110. "Xew Zealand niay reeeive a greatei quantity oi' sngar iluring 1017 tinui ii. any of the tliree preeeding years, " state.s the annual report of the Depart ment of 1 ndustries and Commeret whieh was [ireseuted in the IIou.se of liepresent atives yesterday. Tlie report sialed that the Internaiional Fniergeney Food Couneil had approved inerease.s in Paeilie quotas, sulijeet to availabilitv, and prosjieets in Xew Zealand were brigliter. lJilti eulties in distribution in Xew Zealand were given as ihe .euson for tiie pie vention of the nlease of alditiona. quan.it ies for doiue.->"iie jam making. " Keinstatement of auction saies of tea in Feyldn and India makes the forward supply position obseure," the report stated. " Fven if Xew Zealand is able to purehase its full requirenients in the ojieii market, it will still be lieeessary for traders' stoeks to be buill up and for labonr and pueking problems to be overeome before any relaxalion of rationing eould be con sidered. ' ' Iniprovenieiit in tlie supplies of dried aprieots, eanned fruit, eauned lisli and Bait was foreeast in tlie report, whieh stated that last vear siqiplies of iin ported foodstulfs had been ditiicillt bm allocations made to Xew Zealand hau been reasonable in view of worl.j shorlages. degarding the supplies for tln present year, Ihe report said that th alloeatiyn of dried vine. fruits wio smaller than for last year, and it migli be nere.-ssary to supplement supplies from souives other than Australia. Indii-at ions regarding riee suppliewtire that there wouhl be no domesli' distribution this. year. Reasonable quantities of dried apri eots were expeoted from Australia, Iran and South Africa, and later n. Ihe year supplies wouhl also be im ported from the Fiiiled States. Improwl siqiplies of eanned frui to give substantial quantities weri mentioned in the report, and with eanned iish tlie future prospeets wer. deseribed as reasonably bright, th food oitire having eonipleled tlie pur chase of useful quantities of salmon sardmes and herrings from surplu-, Admiralty stoeks.