CLARENDON DEPOSITS
While fertiliser rationing remains in force, farmers in Otago and Southland will regret that the extraction of phosphate. at Clarendon, near Milton, has been discontinued. During the war period, the low-grade phosphate from the area was used in considerable quantities and some excellent results were obtained from the liberal application of this “Kapiti” phosphate. The deposit at Clarendon was the only known workable phosphate in the Dominion and considerable attention was focused on it when the Japanese occupied Nauru and Ocean Islands early in 1942 and supplies from these sources were cut off to New Zealand. Much larger supplies of high-grade phosphate than ever during the postwar period are now becoming available from Nauru and Ocean Islands.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26541, 16 August 1947, Page 4
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119CLARENDON DEPOSITS Otago Daily Times, Issue 26541, 16 August 1947, Page 4
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