LIME SUPPLIES
Farmers have complained recently about the lack of lime supplies, but inquiries suggest that the recent difficulty resulted from a railway truck shortage and hot from the works’ production capacity.
This point was made by Mr H. M. Cairr, chairman of the North Canterbury lime manufacturers’ group, who said that at one of the works, for instance, there had been trucks for only three full days’ loading in the whole of December, with the consequence that production was less than a third of capacity. In most cases works normally sent out about 90 per cent, of the lime, and if trucks were available the existing works would be quite capable of supplying farmers’ needs with ease. He added that the December trucks to shipping and the West Coast. It was hard to foretell just how difficult the position would be in February. when all available trucks would be needed for wheat, but a serious shortage for lime carriage seemed inevitable.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25080, 11 January 1947, Page 5
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