USE OF WASTE FOR COMPOST
N.Z. TOWNS URGED TO ADOPT SCHEME
(New Zealand Press Association) - AUCKLAND, February 23. To preserve a healthy soil and provide nutritive food, it was important that some system be introduced to return to the soil all town wastes, said the president of the New Zealand Organic Compost Society (Mr T. D. Lennie), to the Auckland branch of the society last night.
He said that the estimated exhaustion of world supplies of rock phosphate in 60 years would force the acceptance of organic compost. By the artificial impregnation of bacteria, good-quality compost could be turned out in four or five days, he added. A composting scheme in Sydney costing £llO,OOO had paid for itself in six years. In Canterbury composting had brought poor land to the stage where it could carry 27 sheep to the acre.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27592, 24 February 1955, Page 7
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