TOP PRICE FOR RAW SUGAR
'GOVERNMENT NEEDS THE MONEY
Mr. R. Mastens (Stratford), asked, in tho House why the public was beins charged the flame price for third-grade sugar a.s for first grade. He mentioned that until the strike at the Auckland refinery tho third-gi'ade sugar had been cheaper than tho first grade. \ The Hon. E. P. Loc replied that ow ms te tho striko tho Government was unable to supply first-grade sugar, and it was supplying third grade at tho same price. This arrangement would continue nntil refined sugar.became available again, the reason for this arrangement; was that tho Government had been put tn considerable expanse in connection with the distribution of the raw sugar, and moreover there wero now extra wages to be, paid by the Government. When refined su»ur bccame available tho demand for tlio 'raw or third-grade sugar would be small and tho old ptico arrangement would be resumed.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19201002.2.54.8
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 6, 2 October 1920, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
153TOP PRICE FOR RAW SUGAR Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 6, 2 October 1920, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in