MARINE PRODUCTS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 59, Issue 4251, 6 March 1950, Page 5

MARINE PRODUCTS

VESSEL PURCHASED WORKS BEING ERECTED HOPE OF CURING SICK SOILS L I Marine Producvta Limited, of Paeroa, which is erecting a fsrtilisar works on the Waihou river near tb» junction of the Netherton and'Ptkwpeka roads has purchased to tot vessel of to fleet it propoees to pot into commission in connsetion with to transporting of the marine products and fertiliser it will manufacture.

The ship has a carrying capacity at 250 tons, has a draught of six feet when folly loaded and is feet in length. The vessel is an ocean-going twin-screw craft driven by twin diesel engines developing 200 h.p. and was built in Australia as*a steel freighter. The ship is of exceptional width, twin ruddered with grab and dredge equipment. „ The company has carried out considerable experimental work in Hauraki gulf, taking samples from to bed of the ocean in tot area held under license from the Marine Department for th« working of the depdsita from which fertiliser other products will be manufactured by the company. Mr C. W. S. Judd, consulting engineer of Auckland, when ap—king to a. Gazette representative stated tot thefirst pleat, which was more in to nature of an experimental plant, was in to course of crectiontind would bo' capable of turatag e«t a miahnap eC 16XMM tons of manure eeeh season. \ k The method ptopoaod to bo adopted was to use to purchased vessel to dredge to marine depbeita frem to sea bed in to Hautaki gulf, each load taken b4h« teas. Taking sdvantagp oi the tide to «hfo would take to capfite TO works at Netherton and tore discharge into a floattag barge meofred nt a wharf. By means of a conveyor belt to deposits would be taken into to works' and tore ' processed. The most modem equipment was to be installed, said Mr Judd. The company’s product would comply with the requirements of the Fertiliser Act, 1927, and would contain more than the requisite percentages of nitrogen, phosphate and potash required by tot Act. A foil organic taanure would be manufactured. Reports on the company’s product from analytical ehemists reveal, said Mr Judd, tot to fertiliser contains the rare trace dements which am so necessary to revitalise' the poiL Diseases in hc4h humans and stock were in many eases to result ef tde lack of certain dements in to soft. It was to aim to eodpgpy to provide those deasdith, to give te to soil tot neeeeeaqr basis for food tarildfog* in order to aoeompHdi taanan haftk ( tag, ionelnded Mr Judd.