Sugar Producers
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UK Supports Overseas Sugar Producers
THE South of England will have to get on without a £3 million sugar beet mill that would pro duce sugar for £lO a ton more than it can be imported.
The UK Minister of Agriculture recently refused a request to estab lish such a mill.
He pointed out that, apart from the bad economics of the scheme, there was already a surplus of cane sugar in Colonies whose economy, in some cases, depended on the sugar crop.
II Semesa Sikivou, an assistant master at Queen Victoria School, has been appointed a member of the Fiji Broadcasting Commission
in the place of Livai Volavola. The latter resigned when he was
appointed headmaster of Richmond Methodist Mission School, Kadavu.
Among passengers who left Sydney for P-NG in January were: Mr. and Mrs.
A. L. A. de Groen, who returned to Port Moresby where Mr. de Groen is Assistant Superintendent of Stores Branch; he was commencing his 35th year as a New Guinea resident. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Cahill, of Madang, who returned home after six months vacation in the US and Europe.