The Future of the Sugar Industry. - The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954) - 25 Nov 1924 (original) (raw)

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Tue 25 Nov 1924 - The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954)
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The Future of the Sugar Industry. B

In declaring thc Roman Catholic

Bazaar open on Friday nighty iii Ba-

binda,- Mr. Gillies said that thc-:, pro-

moters of this bazaar, in setting out

to raise £3,000 or ¿4,000 for t/ie; build-

ing ot a Convent School at Babinda,

inter alia, showed their'confidence in

thc ftiturc of j thc sugar industry.

Babinda was, built on ,sugar, its'foun-

dation wits" sugà,r, : 'àn<i',; i( anything

serious ha'p'pene'd tdc sugar, Babinda

would, bc a deserted', village. He sin-

cerely hoped that' theiH confidence

would not bc misplaced, tfjüd he

honestly believed tháí"'|he ft$rimc

Ministur. "and his Govcrnmciic.íwolild

see',fo' it that the present system of

control was extended, as «ic had ad-

vocated, for 10 years', to cuaçlèj thc

industry to bc stabilised, and rV thus

maintain thc prosperity of Babinda

and thc white population on the coas-

tal belt of North Queensland.

The Belfast, correspondent p^ the ,

"Daily Herald' says it is not definitely ¡

known whtehcr Mr. Baldwin renewed

the ¡pledge made prior .to the 1923^elecjra

tioij. to provide £1,000,000 towards the¡,.

maintenance of special police, in?Ulster.

Mr. "MacDonald refuses to honor the

earlier promise oil .thc ground that the.

specials were-a. political, force. jß>

Quotation for the.day:- : fc'i

A true i historyi of human ! events

would show that a milch larger prOpor-.

tiorií'of ioúr- dcedsi arc. the reinita 'pt-:

sudden impulses and accidents thin of

that reason of which wc so mucteboast*: