The Archive · 1924

SUBSIDY OF HOME-GROWN BEET SUGAR London, Dee. 18

The House of Commons by 233 votes to 22 adopted a money ro-solution in order to give effect to the Into Government's proposals with regards to the subsidizing of beet sugar grown in Great Britain for the next 10 years, on a diminish izling scale and to reimpose the excise duty removed in 1922.

The factories benefiting by this} resolution must pay the growers a minimum price and probably, 75 per cent. of their machinery must fbe British-made. It is estimated

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