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  2. THE [?] [?] ALLAN SUGAR [?] T[?]

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 371 words
  3. THE PUBLIC CONTROL OF PRICES.

    As every student of economics knows, the fixation of the prices of commodities is unsound, and all history shows the ultimate futility of attempting it. The circumstances associated with the Sugar Industry, however, are exceptional; indeed, it may be said unique. We have the Industrial ...

    Article : 239 words
  4. THE FINANCIAL INTEREST OF THE QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT.

    The Queensland Government has a very material financial interest in the Sugar Industry, in that during the last 30 years large sums have been advanced to the cane growers from time to time for the erection of raw sugar mills on co-operative principles, and there is now owing to the State ...

    Article : 105 words
  5. THE NATIONAL IMPORTANCE OF THE INDUSTRY.

    It cannot be too often repeated and emphasised that the Sugar Industry is the greatest and most important agricultural industry which the State of Queensland possesses. Moreover, it is not merely the concern of the producers of sugar. It is very much the concern of every citizen of Queensland, ...

    Article : 625 words
  6. WHY SUGAR IS SIXPENCE A POUND.

    Those people who are not acquainted with the details of the subject are labouring under the delusion that the sugar producer is receiving Cd. per lb. for his sugar. That is not so. The reason why it is necessary to charge 6d. per lb. retail is due, primarily, to the fact that the Commonwealth ...

    Article : 330 words
  7. SUGAR'S PLACE IN THE FAMILY BUDGET.

    In the course of the enquiry recently made by the Federal mission on the Cost of Living in Australia, the conclusion was reached, after the fullest consideration, that the family of five persons—a man, his wife, and three children, as contemplated by our Industrial Legislation—consumed ...

    Article : 175 words
  8. THE VALUE OF THE PRESENT AGREEMENT WITH THE COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT.

    What the sugar producers are seeking is a renewal of the present Agreement, to which all sections' engaged in the industry are parties. The following Resolution, which was unanimously adopted by the sugar producers at a Conference, presided over by the Acting Minister for Agriculture in ...

    Article : 900 words
  9. AN APPRECIATION AND RECOGNITION.

    The following important remarks were included in the reply by the Minister for Trade and Customs (Mr. Rodgers) to the representations made to him by the members of the Commonwealth Sugar Council when assembled in Brisbane in February last:— ...

    Article : 133 words
  10. THE INDUSTRY AS A RESERVOIR OF WAGES.

    In the industrial sphere the Australian sugar production is of the very greatest moment as a reservoir of wages. It is authoritatively stated that of the cost of sugar cultivation and manufacture some 80 per cent, goes in wages. It is estimated that last year the sum disbursed in wages in ...

    Article : 192 words
  11. AUSTRALIA A DEBTOR TO THE SUGAR INDUSTRY.

    As so much has been said about buying sugar at "world's parity," it is interesting to know just exactly how Australia would have fared if she had had to buy her sugar in foreign markets at "World's parity" during the years 1915 to 1921, both inclusive. We have therefore taken the "World's ...

    Article : 271 words
  12. THE INDUSTRY AS A FACTOR IN THE EXPORT TRADE OF MANUFACTURED ARTICLES.

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