NAURU PHOSPHATES
'A farmer coirespondent, signing his letter "Let the House Attend to It," complains of the price of Nauru phoephates. "It is imported at £2 12s per ton, bat is retailed at £6 10s. In whose pocket does.the odd £4 go?" The correspondent compares the 16s per day wage* paid to workers in the factories with the farmers' Ss for 16 hours' work. Manures costing £6 per ton at the works cost £11 to put on the farms owing to cost and transport, and the farmer is expected to carry these charges, which it is the business of the Government, in the opinion of the correspondent to rectify.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 51, 29 August 1922, Page 5
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109NAURU PHOSPHATES Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 51, 29 August 1922, Page 5
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