ABSTRACT
The sugar exporting industries in the countries which supply the United Kingdom are for the most part highly organised. The British sugar beet industry, which supplied nearly a fifth of the total sugar requirements of the United Kingdom on the outbreak of war, was not firmly established until a government subsidy scheme was introduced in 1924. The wholesale side of sugar distribution is dealt with mostly by dealers doing a general trade in groceries, but the wholesalers of sugar do not in most cases touch the sugar itself. This is the explanation of the paradox that after millions of pounds have been spent on building a sugar beet industry in the United Kingdom sugar is rationed after three months instead of as in the last war after three years. The money authors have spent in the last few years in perfecting our arrangements for the distribution of sugar and syrup products has indeed been well justified.
