It is estimated officially, says the Board of Trade Journal, that the sugar production of Queensland for 1919 was about 155,000 tons.
During the last months of 1919 the weather was exceptionally dry, and the outlook for the current year was bad, the ratoon, or re-growth, crops making no progress, and the plant cane, though started, standing still. Summer showers and storms were of local value in places, but the monsoonal, or wet, season Set in in good time, and now excellent rains are reported.
In 1917 an area less than that at
crushing produced over 300,000 to1 present under crop for the 1020 of sugar, or with New Souyh Wales and Victoria, 30,000 tons above the official estimate of Australian consumption. Whether the official estimate of 280,000 tons as the Australian consumption is correct seems now open to review, in the face of the great increase in the production of jams. biscuits, confectionery, preserved milk. and other food stuffs consuming sugar.
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