DISPOSAL OF BLACKFISH
VALUE AS FERTILISER (0.c.) WHANOAREI, Sunday The secretary of the Whangarei branch of the farmers' Union, .Mr. F. Simmonds, expressed the opinion at a meeting of the branch that with the present shortage of fertilisers action should have been taken by the Government to utilise the blackfish that were stranded in the Whangarei harbour last week. Mr. Simmonds considered that the 44 blackfish, the largest of which was estimated to weigh nearly four tons, could have produced about . r >n tons of fertiliser, as well as a quantity of valuable oil. lustead of making use of this source of supply, the blaekfish had been towed out to sea
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24106, 27 October 1941, Page 9
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