BENEFIT TO FARMERS
Subsidy on Sodium Chlorate By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, September 18. The Hon. C. E. Macmillan, Minister of Agriculture, has issued the following statement. “With a view to reducing the price of sodium chlorate to farmers an amount of £5OOO is being made available for the purpose of subsidising purchases of this material, ft is proposed that the subsidy should be nt tho rate of u penny a lb. and that it should be paid to the importers very much on the lines of the subsidy to manufacturers of superphosphate. In the case of a wholesale purchase made since August 1 last, the subsidy will be paid direct to the local body nr other organisation concerned upon production of evidence of purchase nnil upon an undertaking being given that where sales have been effected the benefit of the subsidy will be passed on .to the purchasing farmers.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 237, 19 September 1934, Page 4
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