FERTILISER AT SEADOWN

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30764, 31 May 1965, Page 3

FERTILISER AT SEADOWN

(New Zealand Press Association) TIMARU, May 30. A fertiliser works will be opened at Seadown, seven miles from Timaru, on April 1, 1967.

This was revealed by Sir Carl Smith, chairman of directors of Dominion Fertiliser, Ltd., on Saturday when he was commenting on an announcement last Thursday that a newly-formed company, South Island Fertiliser Company, plans to build a farmerowned and co-operative works near Timaru. “The proposed co-operative fertiliser works for South Canterbury does not ;Tect the plans to build a works at Seadown,” Sir Carl Smith said in a statement. “The contract for the main buildings has been given to Downer and Company, and the target date which has been set for the opening is April 1, 1967.” Sir Carl Smith said that in his annual statement to shareholders in 1-962 he announced that negotiations were in hand to purchase land on which it was planned to build a mixing store and. later, a works. “The store was officially opened last year, and at the

opening ceremony the Minister of Lands (Mr R. G. Gerard) expressed the hope that this would be the forerunner of a works,” he said. “This hope will be fulfilled in 1967.”