PUSHING NEW ZEALAND AHEAD

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 14 November 1925, Page 3

PUSHING NEW ZEALAND AHEAD

THE WANGANUI FERTILISER WORKS. ANOTHER MILESTONE IN DOMINION’S ADVANCEMENT. “A near-sighted view of controversial matters often causes big things in the country’s progress to ”be overlooked or else viewed in a wrong perspective.” Woodrow Wilson. And it is only when proper consideration is given to the new Fertiliser Works at Wanganui and ail that they will do that one can reach a proper appreciation that they are an actual acquisition to national wealth and prosperity. When you consider agricultural and pastoral land from the profit producing viewpoint you better realise the potentialities of these works as affecting community and individual wealth. That is to say,* when you double the stockcarving capacity of a pasture by a topdressing of “Westfield” Superphosphate you have virtually doubled your acreage without increasing the principal invested in land. Or if you treble your profit from a crop you have secured the same profit as would be returned by treble the amount of land without “Westfield” Superphosphate. As an example take mangels, and base vour figures on the official figures of tests published in the Journal of Agriculture, which stated that the application of 3£cwt of Superphosphate gave an average increase of nearly 26 tons of mangels per acre, and showed a profit of 1800 per cent on the cost o.f the Supernhosjihate. And the like of this is being done every year. Only quite recently Mr Nairn, Lakeside, Canterbury, top-dressed 20 acres with two tons of “K.P.” Superphosphate 42/44 per cent (2cwt to the acre), and in ' addition to the extra grazing obtained £2OO for red clover seed and hay valued at £l2O, while the difference in the clover growth on an unmanured strip was most marked. THE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF THE WORKS. This serves to emphasise what can be done by the proper use of fertilisers, and also emphasises the economic importance to everybody in this district of the Wanganui Fertiliser Works, which, with an annual production of something like 50,000 tons of high-grade fertiliser will he the means of virtually increasing the acreage of our profitable agricultural and pastoral lands by so much extra production—a form of production which leaves the soil in a better condition than ever hv reason of the residual fertility. The Directors and Managers of Kempthornc, Prosser and Co.’s New Zealand Drug Co.. Ltd.—the Pioneers of Sunernhosphate Manufacture in New Zealand —have always been imbued by the spirit of optimistic enterprise which distinguished the founder of the firm, the late Mr T. W. Tvempthorne. and it is this progressive spirit which has led to the establishment of the Wanganui Fertiliser "Works, in addition to those already operating at Westfield, Auckland; Hornby, Christchurch: and Burnside. Dunedin.

PROVISION FOR IMMEDIATE DEMANDS. It is anticipated that the Wanganui Fertiliser Works will be in operation by July of August; meanwhile ample stocks of well-matured “Westfield” Superphosphate and other Fertilisers are being held at Wanganui to supply immediate demands, and all correspondence and orders should he addressed to Messrs. Kempthorne, Prosser and Co.’s New Zealand Drug Co., Ltd., 14 Wicksteed Place, "Wanganui. I