PHOSPHATE SUPPLIES.
BRITAIN URGED TO TAKE HER SHARE. 3Y CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.
Received 10.45 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Dec. 1. At a meeting of the unionist agricultural committee, including members ol Parliament, a deputation was appointee! to urge- the Government to utilise its agreed upon share, 42 per cent, of phosphates- from Nauru and Ocean Islands, under the 1920 agreement. They suggested that Britain, Australia ancj New Zealand should instruct their commissioners to -ascertain the lowest f.o.b. price-. It was calculated that the annual output was a million tons. Mr Harold Briggs, M.P., the organiser, stated that- he was amazed to discover that Britain to-ok no share. Man} British superphosphate- manufacturers were relinquishing business owing to lack of cheap material, while the farmers urgently needed cheaper fertilisers. Britain should take her share of benefit from both. If the manufacturers were not .assisted ,they might internationally agree to -regulate prices adversely to the farmers. —Sydney “Sun’ cable.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 December 1927, Page 5
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