Superphosphate Supply.

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1946, Page 2

Superphosphate Supply.

Substantially increased supplies of superphosphate should be available in New Zealand this production year, said Mr. S. Irwin Crookes, chairman of the New Zealand Farmers’ Fertiliser Company, Ltd., at the annual meeting in Auckland to-day. The total might reach .600,000 tons for the whole of the Dominion, he added. To achieve this result the conditions were that z allocated quantities of ■ 370,000 tons of phosphate rock were delivered for the 12 months ending ■June 30, 1947, as compared with 264,000 tons for the previous . 12 months, that this was converted into superphosphate, that the manufacturing capacity in New Zealand was equal to the task and that adequate transport was available by road and rail for distribution. —(P.A.)

After the termination of certain prior life interests, the will of Henry Benjamin Eglinton, of Longlands, Hastings, provides for the payment of one half of the net income from the residuary estate to the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association, for the general charitable purposes of the association in New Zealand and other one-half of the residuary income to the Wellington City Mission. (Church of England) Trust Board for the general charitable, purposes of the city mission. The estimated value of - the residuary estate is approximately £20,000. The Public Trustee is appointed executor. —(P.A.)

Favourable consideration to a review of the post and-, telegraph rates was sought from the PostmasterGehetal (Mr. Webb) in a notice of Question by Mr. W. Sullivan (Oppn,,

Bay of Plenty) in the House of Representatives. The rates, *said Mr, Sullivan, had been increased as a wartime revenue measure.

The Department of Scientific and. Industrial Research has discovered a new weapon. It is called a supersonic transmitter—-and its use? Well that is explained in the section of the Department’s annual report, presented in the House of ■ Representatives which deals, with work at present in hand at the Auckland Industrial Development Laboratories. Says the report, in listing the many valuable activities of these laboratories: “The design and production of a supersonic transmitter, intended to prevent pollution of reservoirs by seagulls, and interference with high tension electrical equipment by nesting birds.”