THE SUGAR SHORTAGE.
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WELLINGTON, Feb. 10‘
Mr Massey’ says he thinks reports of the hoarding of agar arc inconcct. The output of the Colonial Sugar Company’s mill is still 1200 tons :1 week. An ofiiccr has been sent to Auckland to supervise rationing of supplies to localities J.ccol'ding to population. E\'ol'_\f effort “"313 being inade to ensure fair distribution of uvajilahlc supplies. He thought that the reasons for the present shortage were that the country
had been bare of sugar at the opening of the fruit. season, chiefly owing to the ioss of '3. whole cargo of sugar, which the Watersiders at Auckland would not unload; that the fruit season had been a. good one, making demands for sugar for preserving very heavy; and tlvat. the pppulation of the population of the country had been increased by the return, from ‘the war of thousands of men, all users of sugar.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3408, 12 February 1920, Page 6
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153THE SUGAR SHORTAGE. Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3408, 12 February 1920, Page 6
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