PHOSPHATE SUPPLIES.
, OPERATIONS IN . THE PACIFIC. Mr. J. T. Arundel has told the Auckland "Herald"- that the Pacific Phosphate Company, of which; he is deputy-chairman, shinned 22,795 tons of phosphate from Ocean Island during April. \ The year's total ship-, ments from Ocean and' Pleasant Islands will :bo about 270,000 tons. The total deposits on,"these two 'islands " are:' estimated at* 50,000,000 ; tons; -, .Japan-, takes about-100,000 tons per annum; Australia about 80,000 tons, and Honolulu, America,.rand: EuroDe- the. . balance..,; Very little comes to; New Zealand. : There is . very little manure-making done in Wellington. . Messrs. Kempthorne,., Pros- ' ser and- Co.'s-supplies/ of : superphosphate, : which ,-is, of course, .the form in .which the mineral phosphate finally reaches the'farm-. • ers, are: chiefly, handled in Auckland -and Dunedin. Mr. Barkas, general manager of the Loan and ; Mercantile Agency Company, ■ which imports .considerable quantities of phosphatic material, states that tho basis of their phosphatic manures is. chiefly Maiden Island guano, which in its raw state is guaranteed to contain from 60 .to. 65 per cent, of phosphate.' , ,
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 222, 12 June 1908, Page 3
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