FERTILISER PLANTS.
NAURU AND OCEAN ISLANDS. “SCORCHED EARTH” PLANS. MELBOURNE, Feb. 12. The general manager of the British Phosphate Commission, Mr A. H. Gaze, in evidence to the Federal Committee on Rural Industries, said that action had been taken to make the plants at Nauru and Ocean Islands useless to the Japanese if the islands should be occupied by them. The Commonwealth Government had been asked to request State Governments to give the commission all the information, in possession of their Mines or Geological Departments about the existence of phosphate. When this was received it would be discussed with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, and if further investigations were justified they would he made.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 122, 5 March 1942, Page 5
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