Hawaii Sugar Crop Sold
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FINAL figures for Hawaii’s sugar crop for 1953 totalled 1,100,000 tons. Due to drought in the main sugar-beet producing areas in the United States, the entire crop, plus a carry-over from 1952 of
34,000 tons, has been sold there.
The severe Hawaii drought ot 1953, though causing an increased yield for that year, is expected to nave an adverse effect in the long run and the total yield for 1954 is likely to he lower. Hawaii’s sugar industry topped the million-ton mark last year for the first time in 20 years.
Mr. J. J. Bruen, who has been Director of Public Works in Fiji since May, 1950, is to retire in, March from the Colonial Engineer ing Service. Mr. Bruen is at pre sent on leave in the United King dom, and he will not return to Fiji before he retires. Before coming to Fiji, Mr. Bruen had served for 20 years in British Guiana.