A Reader's Enquiry To the Editor of the "Nowrt-Cuixa Dany News"
'Sm—It_was reported in your [columns recently that large quantities fof "duty free™ sugar were being' juntoaded here to the great dismay of the Chinese merchants, 1 wonder whether I, unwittingly purchased some yesterday.
For some time past I have been buying "Holland" sugar by the 10 1b, bag at prices ranging from $2 to $2.60. Yesterday I purchased a bag from a well-known storekeeper in Route Say zoong and was surprised to find that there was a considerable reduction in rice, only $1,70 being charged, The bag, which is very new and Woo Kee Sugar & Ca. above is the trade mark, W. K. in' a diamond, and at the top are some [Chinese characters, On opening it, X found the sugar to bbe very much whiter and finer than the sual "Holland" Sugar. some of the duty-free sugar being sold All Funs very lurider the old name? While one
price on the genuine article, I for WOuld, naturally, Jone, would not buy Japanese sugar for any other commodity, either under its correct or an assumed designation, no matter how much cheaper.
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