FERTILISER SUPPLIES
IMPROVEMENT EXPECTED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 19. Three shipments of basic slag totalling 10,000 tons were expected in New Zealand from Belgium within the next month or so, said the superintendent of fertilisers to the Department of Agriculture (Mr G. H. Holford) today. These will be the first shipments since the war, and the tonnage has all been sold ahead. i However, negotiations were in train, said Mr Holford, for greater quantities to he shipped next autumn. The first shipment of Nauru phosphate was to arrive at Auckland today. This was the first of 65,000 tons due up' to June next year, though the allocation of phosphate to New Zealand from Makatea, North Africa, and America would be about 370,000 tons. An improvement in the fertiliser position should be noted from now on, said Mr Holford. Nauru’s output from 194647 to 1949-50 was expected to increase steadily from about 200,000 tons to 1,000,000 tons.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24985, 20 September 1946, Page 8
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