Sayings of the Week

Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 4, 30 October 1931, Page 10

Sayings of the Week

The Minister of Agriculture (Hon. D. Jones) on fertiliser subsidy : “The urgent requirement of New Zealand is an increase in production of primary products. To attain this the excended employment of artificial fertilisers, particularly quick-acting fertilisers, is of prime importance. Among artificial fertilisers, those of a phosphatic nature are essential over all parts of New Zealand. Other forms of fertilisers, such as those of a nitrogenous or potassic nature, are useful as supplementary aids toward increased production, but are not essential.”

The Governor-General to the Wellington Conference of Associated Chambers of Commerce : “The more I see of this land of promise and opportunity and the more I probe into its pasit bistory, the greater is my admiration for its sturdy pioneer settlers and for the ideals which governed their great adventure and the country’s initial development. I have a growing conviction, after studying on the spot the soil, climate, population, economic conditions and industrial potentialities of more countries of the world than most of my compatriots, that no country has brighter prospects! than New Zealand—even in face of its relatively heavy public commitments for all classes of its population, if only the reputable qualities of those old pioneers are imitated and perpetuated.”