Sugar Season In Fiji
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From Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Nov. 10.
THE Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. has completed its crushing, for the 1940 season, at its Nausori Mill, at Rewa, and it is expected that other mills will finish their work about the end of No vember.
There has not been as great a tonnage of cane as in previous years, but in some areas the yield of sugar per ton has been greater than the average, so that the growers should receive a sub stantial bonus over the arranged price.
Nadi district reports that the pine apple crop is in a very flourishing con dition.
The prizes in the Samarai Library sweep on the Melbourne Cup were won as follows .—First. £62/10/-, Mrs. L. Skelly and W. Johnston: second, £25, V. C.
Eglestaff; third, £l2 10/-, Gail Ranie.
The Library Institute also had a “Cal cutta Sweep’’ on the Cup, with the fol lowing result: First, £66/13/-, A. Ramsden; second, £33/6/-, C. Skelly: third, £ll/2/-, A. Ramsden.