"SUGAR FAMINE"-ABOLISHED BOUNTIES.
While English manufacturers using sugar as raw material were well satisfied to receive cheap bounty-fed sugar from the Continent, British sugar-growing pos- , sessions protested against the injustice' of bounty competition. Ultimately Britain withdrew from the Sugar Convention'under which the bounty system was carried on. Recently a London cablegram.stated:.. • "The manager of the Batiger Company, „> a well-known London confectionery firm, declares that England is never nearer a sugar famine than now. The advance in price for the last twelve months is practically 30 per .cent. The abolition of bounties on the Continent has lowered foreigners' home prices and lessened their, exports to England." ...'\. In 1908, tho present Government remitted ' half the sugar duty.; ' As-this was done just prior to Mr. Winston Churchill (then President of the Board of Trade), seeking election at Dundee, Unionist papers described the remission as a bribe t« the confectionery and jam-making firm* of Dundee.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 796, 20 April 1910, Page 5
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151"SUGAR FAMINE"-ABOLISHED BOUNTIES. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 796, 20 April 1910, Page 5
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