FERTILISER SUPPLY
PROSPECTS NOW GOOD (P.A.) AUCKLAND, February 17. The prospects for the supply of fertiliser to New Zealand this year are particularly bright, and farmers and merchants are entertaining hopes that the end of rationing might be in sight. Phosphates fill by far the greater portion of New Zealand’s needs, and the British Phosphate Commission expects to import about 400,500 tons in the present calendar year. This is the estimate of the New Zealand representative on the commission, Sir Albert Ellis. That figure was never reached before the war, he sad, when imports 'were in the vicinity of 350.000 tons a year. In addition to supplies from Nauru, Ocean, and other Pacific islands, 10,000 tons of basic slag has already been received from Belgium and another 20,000 tons is expected by July. About 17,000 tons of North African phosphate should also be landed during the next five months.
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Evening Star, Issue 26029, 18 February 1947, Page 4
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149FERTILISER SUPPLY Evening Star, Issue 26029, 18 February 1947, Page 4
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