The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-20
He WORK of organizing the
queensland sugar industry is be-

W OhNh OIL organizing the
queensland sugar industry is be-
ing pushed forward with some
Vigor and is likely to aeventuate in
s'rong association being formed very
fhuch on the lines laid down by US last
month, which lines were similar RI
those advocated by the sugar confer
enes held fifteen months ago in Mackav
tt now rests for the growers and manu-
, Iacturers in the various sugar districts
to complete the formation of or
strengthen the already existing associa-
/ tions or unions, in order that each dis
trict may be thoroughly in touch with
I the central body, which we hope is des-
tined TO effectively represent the whole
industry in all matters where a general
consensus of opinion is to be expressed
No time should be lost and delegates
with plenary powers should at once be
elected to attend the conference which
will take place in Bundaberg in the
| early part of next month. If this con-
ference is well attended, not by persons
acting on behalf of distant associations
F, but by actual delegates from those bod
I les, then a really sound commencement
| Will have been made to draw the sugar
people together and establish an or
ganization by means of which DR.. Max
wells splendid services will be placed
at the disposal of every cane farmer in
the State. There is of course much to
be done before the organization can be-
come living and active factor in pro-
noting the welfare of our industry, but
no time is to be lost, otherwise the
years, as in the past, may be allowed
to slip by with nothing being done.
DR.. Maxwell's engagement with the
Queensland Government is only for five
years, and at least one of the five years
will have passed before the association
will be in actual operation. Nothing
can illustrate the necessity of the or
ganiza ton better than the difficulty
which must be experienced by DR. Max
well in making the report upon the SUI
gar industry which he has undertaken
to supply to Mr.. Barton, the Common
wealth Prime Minister. The informa-
ton required to make that report COM
plete should really be gathered by an
organized body, for the thousand and
one details necessary to full and
comprehensive grasp of the whole ques
ton are not easily obtainable by any
single individual It cannot be expect
ed that DR.. Maxwell will go from dis
trict TO district, and from farm to
farm, collecting all the minute facts
that go to make up the whole of the
information dealing with the industry,
and by so much must the task he has
undertaken be the more difficult. AT
the same time even after the report
has been made there are still all the
facts required to enable the work of
the sugar experiment stations to be
carried out along all lines which will do
the greatest amount of good. There is
also the information on sugar matters.
the results of experiments and the par
ticular problems awaiting solution
which must be known both to DR.. Max
well and to the cane growers and sugar
manufacturers. We believe 1t is safe
to say that every intelligent man con-
nected with the sugar industry mas con-
siderable, if not unbounded, faith in DR..
Maxwell and the work he Is undertake
ing bur to make that work of value, to
nut a crown of effectiveness upon 1t,
there is an absolute necessity for the
sugar experiment stations, their or
sanizer and his staff, to be brought into
close and easy communication with the
people spread up and down the seat
tered districts along our seaboard. 1t
would be well if those engaged in the
Industry recognized this. and at once
took active steps in the direction which |
has been indicated We are well with
in the mark when we venture to assert
that Dr. Maxwell himself is not too
sanguine of success attending his work.
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