SUGAR GROWING.
THE LABOUR QUESTION IN QUEENSLAND. BRISBANE, Oct. 25. A conference of sugar growers at Townav-ille resolved thut through the absence of permanent settlement as to the future attitude of the Commonwealth us regards tropical on lines calculated to a sound basis, already ionfli'derajble areas -are pacing, and eventually the \v. .Ole troi.lical portion of Queensland will pass into the hands of Asiatics. The conference urges the appoint* ment of a Koyul Commission to investigate the sugar industry. A, fear is expressed thut when the war is ended, disbanded Japanese will l join ithe Chinese and other Asiatics in flooding the sugar industry in Australia. Several speakers advocated the necessity o' Polynesian labour to develop the industry. One declared that he found white labour an unqualified 'success, and that rather fthan retain the old conditions be iwould cease growing vane. Me did not see that the introduction of Polynesians would prevent the advent of Asiatics. Resolutions were adopted in favitiir of extending the Sugar Bounties Act (or a further period of ten years, .audi providing s for the (conitinuance of- Polynesian labourers now employed ; in the industry.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 250, 26 October 1904, Page 3
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188SUGAR GROWING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 250, 26 October 1904, Page 3
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