AMPLE SUGAR SUPPLIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 32, 8 June 1915, Page 7

AMPLE SUGAR SUPPLIES.

HOUSEHOLDERS’ DEMANDS. J*kb Press Absooiation. Auckland, June 7. Mr W. J. Philson, manager of the Colonial Sugar Company in New Zealand. explained to-day, in reply to the message from Timaru, that he had stated that the company would have no difficulty in keeping up the supply of sugar for New Zealand. The requirements of New Zealand, gauged from the experience of the last thirty years, has been found to be from 750 to 850 tons a week, but the demand made on the company for April aggregated something between 1280 to MOO [tons a week. There was no cause for this increase in demand, except that ’the public generally were laying in 'supplies by purchasing three or four times the quantity they need from the grocer each month. If the public bought only for present needs there would be ample sugar to go round and some over. Just now, however, the company’s stock was swept clean every Saturday. The company first of all filled its contracts (to jam and other manufacturers), then set aside what - was required for local Auckland supplies, and finally allotted from the remainder supplies to the various prominent districts of the Dominion according to the urgent needs of those districts. Two trips ago the Vyanaka took about .1750 tons of sugar to the south, and probably 150 tons of that went to Timaru.