CSR Paid £900,000
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For 1945 Cane 100 per cent. Increase on 1939 Costs
Suva, Dec. 18.
THE Colonial Sugar Refining Company Ltd., has recently made the final payment for 1945 cane bringing the amount paid out by the Company this year to over £900,000.
The average price per ton for Fiji’s 1945 sugar crop was 30/- per ton—an in crease of almost 100 per cent, on pre-war figures when the average price paid was 15/6 per ton.
A son was recently born in Brisbane to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Craig, of Sudest Island, Papua. All three hope to return to the Territory early in 1947.