AMPLE SUGAR.
INCREASE IN SUPPLIES.
HOUSEHOLDERS BUYING MOl'l'
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night
.Mr. W. J. Philsou, manager for the Colonial Sugar Company' in New Zealand, explained to-day, in reply to the message from Timaru, that he bad 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, had been found to be from 750 to 850 tons a week, but the demand made on the company for April aggregated something between 12S0 to 1400 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 tho grocer each month. If the public bought only for present needs there would be ample sugar to go round and Fome over. Just now, however, the company's stock was swept clean every Saturday. The company first of all filUid its contracts (to jam and other manufacturers), then set aside what was required for local Auckland supplies, and finally allotted from the remainder supplies lo the various prominent districts of the Dominion according to the urgent needs iif those districts. Two trips ago tlw Wanaka took about 1750 tons of sugar to the south, and probably 150 tons of that went to Timaru.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 309, 8 June 1915, Page 8
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233AMPLE SUGAR. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 309, 8 June 1915, Page 8
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