FERTILISER CARGOES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22352, 25 February 1936, Page 10

FERTILISER CARGOES

LARGE AMOUNTS ARRIVING BASIC SLAG AND PHOSPHATES Largo quantities of fertilisers, including basic slag, guano and phosphates, are being brought to New Zealand. Of eight steamers which left Europe for New Zealand with basic slag cargoes, three, tho Pensilva and the Simonsido from Antwerp, and the Antigono from Immingham, are discharging at Auckland. Two others, the Anglo African and the Tyineric, will arrive from Antwerp to-morrow and Friday respectively. The steamer Kanna is due at Auckland to-morrow from Walpole Island with a cargo of guano, and next Monday the steamers Triona and Beatus will arrive from Nauru Island and Ocean Island with phosphate cargoes. Another vessel, the Oakbank, is due at Lyttelton from Ocean Island to-morrow with a cargo of phosphates for South Island ports. Tho Pensilva is unloading all her basic slag cargo at Auckland, and the Antigone, Simonside, Anglo African and Tymeric will unload at Auckland and New Plymouth. Three more steamers, the Fiscus, Anglo Indian and Dalemoor, will arrive from Antwerp during March and early in April. Their basic slag cargoes will also bo unloaded at Auckland and New Plymouth.