GRASSMERE SALT OUTPUT
Record May Be Set This Year
(New Zeatana Press Association) BLENHEIM, January 15.
If fine weather prevails until the end of March it is likely that Dominion Salt, Ltd., at Grassmere, will have a record season’s production. There is an excellent crust on the ponds, already sufficient to double last season’s production of about 7000 tons. The record yield was 11,400 tons in 1956-57. New harvesting methods are in operation this year. The miniature railway which ran on movable tracks and carried salt from the ponds to the stockpile has been replaced a fleet of balloon-tyred trailer hoppers towed by tractors. They work directly between the harvester and the stockpile, eliminating double handling. As with other crops, speed is essential in harvesting salt, and the new methods are showing good gains in efficiency.
In the first 10 months of 1958 about 8500 million gallons of beer were sold in West Germany—47o million gallons more than in the same period last year.—Wiesbaden (Reuter).
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28795, 16 January 1959, Page 14
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