Perturbed
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Csr Is Not
Sydney headquarters of CBR did not ; ->em unduly perturbed about the Fiji ugar quota when asked about it In June. The quota Is given to a country and not to any particular firm. As the only crushers in Fiji for the last 32 years, the CSR Co. has naturally supplied all Fiji’s export sugar. How ever, they said if or when a new company goes the Fiji sugar business “presumably the allocation of the quota would be a matter for the Fiji Government”.
Having more than one sugar com pany in Fiji is not new, of course.
'There were numerous companies in the early days but only three survived the ruinously low at the end last century: The CSR Co.; the Fiji Sugar Co., that later became the Vancouver-Flji Sugar Co and finally succumbed in 1922; and the Penang Sugar Co., that had started life in Mago Island and was later removed, factory and all. to the Ra coast. The CSR acquired the Penang establish ment in 1927.