SUBSIDY ON FERTILISER
EFFECT OF REMOVAL
“SERIOUS SETBACK TO PRODUCTION ” (P.A.) DANNEVIRKE, Sept. 26. Speaking at the Pongaroa branch of FedAated Farmers about the cancellation of the subsidy on fertiliser, the director of the grassland division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (Mr Bruce Levy) said he considered that the lifting of the subsidy would result in a severe setback to primary production. “As regards the effect it is going to have on the maintenance and development of our hill country, the increase in the price of fertiliser is going to be the most disastrous thing that has ever happened to this brahch of the farming industry,” he said. The stage had been all ’set for a great forward drive towards improvement of failing second and third-class lands, he said. New and improved strains of grasses and clover had been developed by his department, and were now available in suitable quantities, but the success of any such operation was dependent entirely on an adequate supply of superphosphate. “Now that this vitally necessary commodity has been placed beyond the reach of the man on this type of land all these plans for the saving of one of our greatest national assets must fall to the ground.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25300, 27 September 1947, Page 8
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