DUTY ON SUGAR.
DO SYDNEY PRICES AFFECT IMPORTATIONS. A VERY SERIOUS ALLEGATION. Sydney, February 22. At the Sugar Commission the manager of Gibbs and Bright’s sugar department said he was convinced prices were fixed in Sydney to keep out importations. People were afraid to deal with his firm because they said if they did so the Sugar Company would drop prices and they would bo getting dearer sugar. They were also afraid that the Sugar Company would not supply them again. He instanced a case where he had almost secured an order for 6000 tons, when he was blocked by the Sugar Company dropping prices.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 50, 23 February 1912, Page 3
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105DUTY ON SUGAR. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 50, 23 February 1912, Page 3
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