WITHIN THE DOMINION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 222, 9 June 1915, Page 7

WITHIN THE DOMINION.

SUGAR SHORTAGE. (By Telegraph.—Presa Association.) AUCKLAND, June 8. Mr W. J. Philson, manager for the Colonial Sugar Co. in New Zealand, explained to-day, in reply to a 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 th e last thirty years, had been found to b e from 750 to 850 tons per week, but the demands made on the thing between 1280 to 1400 tons per company for April aggregated someweek. There was no cause for this increase in demand except tjkat the public generally were laying in supplies by purchasing three or four times the amount they need from the grocer each month. If the public bought only for their 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 the supplies to various prominent districts of the Dominion, according to the urgent needs of those districts. Two trips ago the Wanaka took about 175 tons of sugar south, and probably 150 tons of that went to' Timaru, TIMARU, Juno 7. Timaru district is threatened with a sugar famine owing to the Colonial Sugar Company failing to send the usual shipment to their distributing agents for South Canterbury.