The Sugar Duties An Examination of the Letter Addressed By Edmund Potter Mp
The Sugar Duties An Examination of the Letter Addressed By Edmund Potter Mp
Alfred Fryer
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, British refining) at the expense of the revenue. " [P. 8. ] 5. — That Mr. Gadesden's evidence confirms this, [P. 14]. 5. — Mr. Gadesden's evidence has no reference to the subject at all. This most able witness was pointing out some of the objections to refining in bond. One of these was, that an honest refiner might purchase sugar, paying 12s. 8d. Per cwt, duty, which was composed of crystallisable and uncrystallisable sugar 93£ per cent. , water 5|, and dirt 1 per cent. , "total not sugar 6f... per cent;" this when refined, might 28 show 4 per cent, loss, and the produce might contain an average moisture of 2| per cent. He then shows how a dishonest person by purchasing drier raw, and sending out damper refined might abstract a large amount of sugar, and only show the same apparent loss in weight. Mr. Potter has here discovered a " mare's nest " Entirely forgetting that the object of refining is to remove treacle as well as non-saccharine matter, he has considered that the 96 per cent, of yield consisted of sugar that if imported would pay 16s.
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