No Ships For Fiji
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Sugar
One-Third of Crop Remains Unsold
BECAUSE Britain is short of shipping, and Fiji is at the opposite side of the globe (representing a voyage of maximum length) Fiji’s usual guaran teed sugar market has failed, this sea son. It is not expected that more than two-thirds of Fiji’s sugar-crop will be shipped to Britain this year. There is no indication, yet, of what will be done with the remainder.
London is doing everything possible, in co-operation with the Government of Fiji, to prevent too much hardship fall ing upon the Fiji sugar industry. The Colonial Office, the Fiji Government, and the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. (which has been helpful and co-operative) have agreed:— The company will purchase the cane as usual, but there will be no Imperial preference obtainable on the sugar that cannot be sold. The Imperial preference bonus of 3/6 a ton of cane will be pay able only on approximately two-thirds of the crop, but this will be distributed equally so that each grower will receive 2/6 bonus a ton of cane.