AERIAL TOPDRESSING INDUSTRY
FORECAST OF CAPACITY OF N.Z. OPERATORS
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 20. The eventual capacity of the New Zealand aerial topdressing industry would be between 700,000 and 800.000 tons of fertiliser a year when the agricultural fleet was re-equipped with medium aircraft, said Mr L. Titchener, •a representative of a North Island fertiliser company, to the ahnual conference of the Aviation Industry Association. Mr Titchener said that the present capacity of the fleet was considerably more than 200,000 tons. He added that operators should remember, when they criticised fertiliser supplies, that for seven months of the year fertiliser factory employees worked from daylight to dusk, seven days /a week. It was essential, too, that farmers be encouraged to hold somd fertiliser as an insurance against breakdowns, such as a shortage of railway waggons.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27434, 21 August 1954, Page 5
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