PHOSPHATES OUTPUT
NAURU AND OCEAN ISLAND NEW ZEALAND'S SHARE. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received May 7, 9.45 a.m. LONDON, May G. ~ Mr J. H. Thomas replied in tlu House of Commons to several question* regarding Nauru. He said ' that the output of Phosphates at Nauru and Ocean Island since Government control was L,203,270 tons, of which Britain received 32,300 tons, Australia 7!J4.r,7u tons and New Zealand 116,800 tons. The last shipment to,Britain was in November. 1921. He presumed that the price was unfavourable. The present price was los below that of the last British cargo. The approximate price delivered in Britain was 3s above the pre-war price Air Thomas added regarding the allotment of 42 per cent, of the output to Britain: ''lt is impossible to give any guarantee concerning future adjustments between the three Governments concerned." —A. and N.Z. cable
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1009, 7 May 1924, Page 5
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