FERTILISER SUBSIDY
DATE CANNOT BE VARIED. (From Our Parliamentary Special.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Government cannot agree to make retrospective to October 1, the provisions of the subsidy which enables superphosphates to be sold at a reduced rate to the farmer, according to a statement made in the House yes-
terday by the Hon, 3>. Jones, Minister of Agriculture. The Minister, in replying to a question on the subject by Mr F. Lye (Government, Waikato) said the agreement had been made with the companies, and fanners, he thought, had received sufficient public notice of the fact. Whatever date had been fixed, it was inevitable that some fanners would not be able to benefit by the subsidy.
It had been represented by Mr Lye that many farmers had ordered their fertilisers when bonus payments .were announced for September 20, apd as delivery was obtained last week,. the farmers concerned were debarred from participation in the. benefits of the subsidv.
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Northern Advocate, 16 October 1931, Page 9
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