The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-02-09
Nations
SHORT OF SUGAR
Central America, Australia and
Russia Among Parts Of
World In Want


Reports from many parts Of the
sugar.producing world have been gath.
cred recently by trade journals review.
ing the past year and outlining the
prospects of .he coming year. Re-
GENTLY Willett & Gray secured reports
from American consuls and other off,
cial sources on the crops Of Central
American countries, as follows:
Guatemala's total production for
1915 was 1899 tons, while for 1914 it
was 11,l6l tons, and for 1913, l0,714
tons. The bulk Of this production
went to the United States and British
Columbia.
British Honduras Is credited with an
annual output Of refined and unrefned
sugar of about 700 tons, of which about
twenty-five tons are refined in one mill
in the colony.
Honduras reports about 9134 acres
planted 70 sugar cane, but there are
only about three modern factories, and
the production is consumed within tho
country.
Salvador exported about 5Is2 tons of
sugar in 1918 and about $50 tons in
1914.
Costa Riea Is production OF 1895 tons
IN 1915 is expected to be exceeded by
the 1916 figures when they are com.
piled. a
Nicaragua re1nes all its own sugar
in eight mills for home consumption,
the production being about 1000 tons a
year. Small quantities are exported TO
noighboring Central American coun-
tries. s
A report from Domarara last Decem-.
her rcHds: n E. ,.a. "es. ..
"Not for many years has the sugar
industry in British Guiana presented
snch a satisfactory outlook as Mt the
present juncture, when the product Is
fetching both In the local market and
abroad a figure almost unprecedented
here. The result Of this mas been that
several estates whose proprietors were
practically about to crop and dismantle
them for good, have been enabled to
carry on, while few have converted
their properties into limited liability
companies whose shares are now being
controlled by business men. in the com
munity to whom, say FIVE years ago, IL
would have seemed sheer madness to
invest in a sugar estate.' af
Batavia reports exports from Java
during the month Of December Of $4,000
tons to Europe. 5000 tons to Suez for
orders, and $4,000 tons to Asiatic ports.
Total shipments from April to end Of
December, are 100000 tons to Europe
and 5sS 900 tons TO elsewhere, together
I,234,000 tons. Last years figures for
this period compare, 3,221 tons to Eu.
rope, 6G5,97S tons to elsewhere, a total
of 1918, 100 tons. ..r. g..|t.
Reports from Russia indicate that
there is a great sugar shortage. At
first, SO the correspondents report, Rus
STA restricted the use Of sugar to two
pounds month when the war condi-
lions entered into the first acute stages,
but now the supply is restricted to one
pound month. 81
Reporting on the recent labor trou.
bles of the sugar industry in Australia,
and the stoppage of the, mills for two
months, a Brisbane correspondent tells
Of radical reductions in the crop esti-
mates. Farmers are stating resolutely
that they will plant no more cane.
Grinding was expected to stop by the
Christmas holidays, and the writer re.
ports that Australia will require 10000
tons of imported sugar before another
| year has passed. ..a... ..