Sugar And Pineapples

C.S.R. Co. In Fiji

THE total output of raw sugar from all sugar mills in, Australia last season was 756,000 tons. That from the seven mills of the Colonial Sugar Co.

Ltd., was 167,900 tons. Production in each case was a record.

These facts were stated by the Chair man of C.S.R. Co. Ltd. (Mr. E. R. Knox) at the half-yearly meeting of share holders on May 26.

The Fiji output was, as expected, a record at 149,300 tons, and the prospects for the coming season are quite satis factory.

There has been a marked increase in the demand for nearly all distillery pro ducts, and arrangements have been made to increase capacity, both as to produc tion and storage. A new still has just been ordered which will enable the com pany to make industrial alcohol and absolute alcohol as required.

The two steamers, Rona and Fiona , are fully taxed to keep the distillery supplied with molasses, and enquiries are being made for a third ship.

Planting of pineapples in Fiji has pro ceeded as well as was expected, and ful filment of the expectation to can and pack a crop next year can be forseen.

Many operating difficulties in the pro duction of fibre board from megass in Queensland have been met.