SUGAR INDUSTRY.
/ WHITE LABOUR CONDEMNED.
By Telegraph—Preßs Association—Copyright Sydney, October 15. The Sugar Commission has resumed its sittings.
The examination of Mf. E. W. Knox, general manager of tho Colonial Sugar Refining Company, was continued. Mr. Knox expressed tho opinion that a white Australia policy, as applied to North Queensland agricultural work, was hopeless. It had not been proved that the sugar industry could be carried on in tho tropics by whites. He considered there was no chance of beet sugar endangering the cane sugar industry in Australia. in New Zealand thero was no duty on sugar, yet no beet sugar had been introduced,
The chairman announced that th« Commission unreservedly accepted the limitation of the inquiry imposed by the Federal High Court injunotion. The Commission, lie said, would ncdept Mr. Knox's statement, previously refused.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1572, 16 October 1912, Page 7
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