The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-10-27
SCIENTISTS SAMPLE
Sugars SACRIFICED
Prinsen.GeerIig's Collections Of a
" Lifetime Co. Into Dutch
Sugar-bowl
Europe's Tragedy Of War Thus
+ Vividly Brought Home To I.
NeutraIs .

DIR. H. @. Prinsen. Geerligs writing
to the Louisiana Planter from Amster.i
dam under date of September 10, says
that: =
"The Dutch beet report from the
last of August is ms follows: Weight
OF the root 392 grammes, sugar in the
beet 1888 per cent against, respec.
lively, $40 and 1888 at corresponding
dates Of the foregoing year, and ara
! and l2.42 Of 1914. The figures are not
bright at all and there will not be
much chance Of Improvement. -. ~
1.-THE average figure for the deveIop.
rhent is put down at SIS of a scale on
which SO is moderate and 60
= rather good this also bringing the
expectations TO q low standard. The
best provinces in this respect are Fries
land, Utrecht and North Holland, with
South Holland, iceland, North Bra!
bant and Limburg with so, while Geld,
erland Is only Just above the note so.
hats His Samples ~ /.
1.-THE stock of sugar in Holland is
tbtally exhausted, the grocers only sell
the article in half.pound packages Mt
the time and very Gifted are unable to
Provide any. The consumers have got
to forward all the old remnants which
we're in their storerooms, while we our.
selves are eating, the samples of sugar
gathered during our long career in the
province of the chemistry of sugar.
There were rather old specimens
among the victims, but they have to
60, all of them, before new sugar will
be at hand. One big factory will start
the campaign on the 18th instant, 9th.
ers few days later and before there
IL accumulated raw material enough TO
induce a refinery to begin les work, we
shall have to wait some time, 80 that,
very likely, the month of October viii
have come before we are in possession
Of new crop sugar.
} 'As soon as this is ready, there
will be sufficient for the use, as the dis.
tribution us in official hands and, wise
by the this years results, the commit
tee will certainly keep 30 much sugar
in the country, that during next cam.
paign a scarcity, as the present one,
will not be repeated. .| '.,, 80.
dermany's Worse Plight 7~ ~.
Fortunately we have not come so
low down that saecharine is distributed
by government among the consumers,
as is the case in Germany, where the
artificial product has been officially
dealt out 10 consumers who want td
sweeten their coffee, tea, lemonade, etc.
According to- official reports, the
sugar production in France during the
drst ten months of the campaign Of
, 1856 has amounted to l49, GOO tons,
to which has to be added the importa.
ton during that period of 4S0, 1884 tons
dnd the stocks at the beginning of
81 ,402f tons, thus bringing the dispos,
able quantity up to ultimo June at
5SS,076 tons.
French Stocks Low I'm
In these same months 654,SS7 tons
nave been disposed of, viz; 1876 as
sugar exported and 53ll7I tons con.
sumed. The stock at the eDd Of June,
1916, was, therefore, only 83,ls9 tons,
against 1888 and 295, l26 tons at the
same date of the two preceding years
respectively: These figures show clear
ly how small in, that country, too, the
sugar supply has become, so that, il
not rather big quantities Of sugar have
been imported during the last two
months, a sensible scarcity viii have
made itself felt in France.
''The maximum price TO be paid in
Italy has been raised again and is fixed
since September ], at $50 lire per 100 |
kilos, while the manufacturing duty |
has been raised at the same date from |
five to seventeen lire per 100 kilos.
Where Java Sugars Went H 1
Java exported in the year May- :
April, 1876, l,175,s26 tons of sugar, |
against l,229,6l3 and l,260, 1913 tons in |
the same period of the campaigns |
1914 Is and l0l3-14 respectively. In
this year British India has resumed her
old place as the largest recipient,
which in the year before had fallen to |
the share of Great Britain, with 45l,.
l67 tons, against 334995 and 600 ,072 |
tons in the two foregoing periods.
Next eame Great Britain with |
e34,667 tons, and France with 72, 1858
tons, while 1887 and 40,272 tons were
shipped respectively to Suez and Port
S"id for orders with an ultimate des,
tination of Western Europe. Together
with the importation to Holland Of Alb
tons Europe received in 1856 no less
than 36S,0s6 tons, against 83S,414 in
l9l4:l5 and only 3o5 in the normal
year 1894. .r
Further Purchases
Hong Kong received ISL, 465 tons
Of Java sugar, Japan 4S,l88, Australia
10 sos, Singapore 1899, China Is, 425
and other countries, not further speei.
fed, 62,27I 1t is evident that the
larger shippings to Europe were fol,
lowed by restrictions of the supply to
th" markets in the vicinity.
at is reported that the British
Sugar Committee has bought another
100000 tons from the running Java
crop, which together with the already
purchased quantity Of 100000 tons,
win make total of 100000 tons from
The 1915 crop, 50 that the shippings of