The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-01-21
CONSUMPTION RISES
HERE AND IN EUROPE
~ &tt}k ~ ah4t
While Worlds Production Has
.@ Been curtalIed BY
Great War 81
Wil'ett & Gray Give Statistics In,
Review Of Sugar Business
For 1915.

TUT I0I1.
Sales of raw sugar at New York dur
ing the week ending january Q amount
ed to about 10000 bags over half Of
Il Porto Rican at a liberal discount be,
low Cubas, all afioat or for January
, delivery.
Willett & Gray in their weekly report
state that stocks in the United states
land Cuba together were l42, 900 tons,
against l39, G73 tons last week ana e35,.
SS2 tons last year, decrease Of o.
iS2 tons from last year. VI,
Cuban Centrals grinding l23, against
1914. \ 81 IA =
Aefhers Buy Porto Ricos
! In the raw sugar trading most OF the
business in Cubas was placed with oper.
ators, while the refhers bought chiefly
OF Porto Rico sugars, in which two or
three lots in prompt positions sold at
4.3gc and later at 4.33c. Cuba sugars
455c. .E... Ft, ~
Based on these sales the market quo.
tation for nearby positions, as we no
to press, shows decline Of nine points
ON Cubhs and twelve. points ON Portp
Ricos from that at the close last week.
Cuban Exports g.. " :.
New crop receipts for the week end
ing January, / are $1,000 tons, against
$4,000. tons last year. New crop ~ex,
ports are 26,905 tons and old crop ex.
ports PSI tons, together 81, 80 tons, Of
WHICH, according to Mr. Hime y, 1000
tons are. for Europe. This leaves ths
new crop stock $4,000 tons and tho
stock of old crop sugars AIS tons ON
January 3 with 100 Centrals grinding,
against 70 and liz a. corresponding
dates for the two previous years, " :
| SlCross Very Low =, \, 49,, : ~
Mr.. Hinley,, under date Of Havana,
| December 81, 1915, writes in regard TO
| the sugar content of the cane: 1--WE
hear OF nine per cent in certain parts
of the island where yield is generally
POOR. Of ten per cent in the Cienfuegos
district, and Of nearly ten and half per
cent in one part OF 0riente Province,
where this result has never been oh
tanned before at this season Of the
year. Our special cable gives the De.
cember, 1918, production as 81 $40 tons.
against 54,676 tons produced in De.
cember, 1914. Weather during the week
has been favorable, and our latest adj.
vices report 1913 Centrals grinding.
Philippine Islands Z. =,
Our cable reports no exports during
December to the United States, but 35OJ
tons to England and 1900 tons to Ash.
attic ports. i About $4,000 tons have
been shipped to the United Kingdom out
of this crop, with $4,000 tons to Am
erica and the balance aBont lO6, 900
tons to Asiatic ports. There still re.
mains 5000 tons ahoat for the United
States Atlantic ports, and which ship.
meats are now quite long overdue.
Refined has been quiet and unehang
Cd at the basis Of 5.95c, but the tone
of the market is generally easier and
some adjustment in prices nearer the
basis Of raw eeRditiens is expected.
No large business has beer done for
| export, as far as We can learn, but
=, there has been 4 steady btisiies N ON
all ports of the. world and we estimat e
that between 1000 and ! odj tons have
been placed recently al prices Ranging
I from 45c TO 450e for January and 4.
zoe to 4,30c tor February, net cash
In bond, Cob, New York. W ~
consumption Increased So
REVIEWING the sugar business OF the
United States FOR 1918 Willett q Gray
state that the figures show. the con.
Sumption Of sugar 1891 ,53l tons, an
incfease Of 40,704 tons from 1914, or
l.0s2 per cent against an increase OF
| II. ga tons. or 0413 per cent for 1914
against $500 per cent average yearly
The average price TOR graduated for
year 1915 was 5.55Dc and for eentri.
fuRals, duty paid, 4642c; difference
0,ol5e, against last years difference
| 0.SG9c. .,'sttE ~ ~
The increase Of LOSE per cent in
| the 1915 consumption over that Of 1914
reflects the great Improvement i'd bust,
ness conditions throughout the entire
country during the last part OF the
year. In spite of the high prices
caused by war. times aud, the han leap
| Of decrease Of 1905 per Gent in. the
consumption for the frst half 81 the
| year, the business Of the latter part
not only made hP this deficit bpt
brought The year out with an increase
Of .OS2 per cont for the entire period
Domestic Producers Were lucky
| The domestic sugar industry was the
chief gamer, especially he best inter,
Psts, in that, instead Of the usual de
I cl ming market When beet sugar came
on the market III the autumn, an ad,
| yancing trend was experienced from
o. Oher 10 DHcember 2 and thu beet
factories took good advantage Of this
and sold large quantities, and al very
| favorable prices. l44,aSs tons more do
nestle FEET sugars being consumed in
| 1918 than in 1914. NV. ''
! A large distribution of Louisiana