UNJUST ATTACK.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 August 1924, Page 5

UNJUST ATTACK.

PRICE OF NAURU PHOSPHATES. . MINISTER DEFENDED. (by telegraph-—press ASSOCIATION. ) DANNEVIRKE, Aug. 5. When addressing a large gatnering of farmers at the Tainaki Dairy Factory on Monday, the Hon. A. D. McLeod, Minister i'or Lands, made passing reference to what hel said was an unjust attack which had been made upon his colleague, the Hon. AY. Nosworthy, by a certain section of the Auckland press and the Auckland I arniers’ Fertiliser Company. Ihe Government’s attitude right through, since taking over a portion of the Nauru output of phosphates, had been to see that farmers were not exploited. Mr Nosworthy,' he claimed, just before speaking on the Address-in-Reply, had conclusive proof placed before him inat the company in question which had its beginning in an assurance to- the farmers that the middlemen’s profits would be cut out, had refused to supply a dairy company with fertilisers unless the price charged to farmers by the said dairy company earned with it. a. distributors’ profit of, he understood, fifteen shillings per ton.