SUGAR FROM NEW ZEALAND

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3152, 2 August 1917, Page 8

SUGAR FROM NEW ZEALAND

3LB. GIFT THAT COST lis. lid. TO'BEACH LONDON. "Your sugar has come," said tho postman with a grin as ho delivered a parcel of Sib. of sugar at a South London home recently. "And there's -Id. to pay on it, please." ■ A "lance at tho label showed the astonished householder that this quite unexpected gift had come all the way from New Zealand, 13,000 miles away, and that it was sent bv a relative. It was a somewhat roundabout and expensive way of getting a parcel of sugar to boutli London. The 31b. of sugar cost Dd. in New Zealand; the postage was 2s. Old., and tho Customs dub/ (paid by the recipient) was 4d.; total 3s. lid., or more than ' in India, too, peoole have been touched by the thought of relatives in England especially children, being nonshort of sugar; but a Bombay paper points out that the importation of sugar into England on private account is now forbidden. This restriction makes tho delivery of the New Zealand sugar through the post all the more surprising. \ woman correspondent writes trom Southsca that her husband in India has sent her a parcel of sugar, but it has not rcac'ied her yet, and she fears it will be forfeited. _____