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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20634, 14 August 1941, Page 9

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ORGANIC MANURES (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. “The Government will not permit the export of organic manures, such as blood and bone,” said the Minister of Marketing, the Hon. J. G. Barclay. He said that a number of people apparently were under the impression that large quantities of such manures were being exported from New Zealand. The Minister said that a small amount of dried blood for medicinal purposes was alone exported, and at present there was no intention of permitting the export of organic manures. To do so would be to aggravate the shortage of phosphatic fertiliser. He added that the Government was doing its utmost to see that the quantity of fertiliser available for distribution was the maximum possible under the circumstances. resisting the transfer of Dakar and ether strategic points on the Atlantic io the Axis. The Vichy decision, which ever way it goes, will only serve to emphasise what Americans are beginning to realise, that it is not a question of the United States becoming involved in war through its own volition, but of he war creeping closer to the United hates every day.