PHOSPHATE AT CLARENDON

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23914, 5 April 1943, Page 4

PHOSPHATE AT CLARENDON

DEVELOPMENT URGED

VIEWS OF FERTILISER FEDERATION (P.S.S.) DUNEDIN, April 3. The opening of the low-grade phosphate deposits at Clarendon was discussed at a meeting of the Dunedin Fertiliser Merchants’ Distributors’ Association. The meeting had been called to discuss the project with the representatives of the executive of the New Zealand Fertiliser Merchants’ Distributors’ Federation. The Dominion president, Mr A. M. Bisley, of Hamilton, said every possible avenue should be explored to increase the quantity of phosphatic manures available in New Zealand. Though fertiliser rationing was essential, he said, and had been successfully administered by the Department of Agriculture and the merchants, the effects of the reduced application of phosphate were already becoming noticeable in the Auckland district. The following resolution was unanimously passed by the association:— “The Dunedin Fertiliser Merchants’ Association expresses its appreciation of the development work carried out at Clarendon by the British Phosphate Commission and the Department of Agriculture, and urges that the policy of fully exploring all deposits of phosphate be continued, so that all data relating to these deposits will be available if conditions leading to a shortage of phosphate in the Dominion should occur at a later date.”