FORCING DOWN PRICES

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1927, Page 12

FORCING DOWN PRICES

BUYING OF FERTILISERS

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

. HAMILTON, This Day. Speaking »t the opening of the Morlinsville Dairy Factory, tho Hon. O. J. Hawken, referring to the present fertiliser "war," said that the movement which had been responsible for the bringing down of the cost of, fertilisers^ was the kind which had been in vogue in Denmark for years. It was merely a mobilisation of buying power and should be adopted more extensively by the farming community. Standardisation, with a formidable buying organisation, was what was wanted. If they had this combination, the farmers would be able to get their implements and other requirements far cheaper' than at present. Both Mr. Samuel, M.P., and Mr. M'Millan, M.P., spoke at length on the fertiliser question, and declared that tho farmers had been farmed long enough "by the fertiliser people. Only when they showed the distributors that they were not bluffing and had formed a company of their own had tho price come down 30s per ton. All the Government could get them to do previously was to reduce by Is 6d per ton. The forcing down of tho prices was a splendid example of what co-operation could do. It now remained for the farmers to be loyal in order to retain the advantages they had gained.