§ MR. SUMMERS (Huddersfield)asked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether the Colony of New Zealand has passed an Act or Acts granting special fiscal advantages or bounties on the manufacture and export of sugar; whether the repeal of these Acts forms part of the policy of abolishing sugar bounties contemplated in the recent negotiations; and, whether there are any other British Colonies which give bounties on the manufacture or export of sugar?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Baron HENRY DE WORMs) (Liverpool, East Toxteth)There is an Act in New Zealand to encourage the cultivation of beetroot and sorghum for the purpose of making sugar. It was passed in 1884. It is practically inoperative; and the Colonial Government have undertaken to enter into the Sugar Bounty Convention. According to the 1562 latest information in the Department, there is no other Colony which gives any bounty on the manufacture or exportation of sugar.