A RECORD YEAR
THE PHOSPHATES INDUSTRY (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. As New Zealand's prosperity depends on the supply of phosphates available, the news brought by Mr. Albert P. Ellis, who came back from a Sydney visit by the Marama, will bo welcomed. Mr. Ellis is New Zealand Commissioner on the British Phosphate Commission, which runs both Nauru and Gfcean Island, the two places from which New Zealand gets the stuff she scatters on her broad acres, and gets it all back again in bigger cheques. "We are. going to have a record year," said Mr. Ellis toS a reporter. u We will probably ship about 580,000 tons of phosphate from our two islands, a quantity that is ahead of all previous records by some 100,000 tons. It will mean that about 160,000 tons will come to New Zealand during the year that starts on July 1 next, and that will be a large increase over the previous imports for 12 months. " Affairs are going along very satisfactorily, and very fine weather has been experienced down at the islands. The increase in our output is due first to this exceptionally favorable weather, and also to the improvements that have been carried out to the plant."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16373, 22 June 1927, Page 7
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207A RECORD YEAR Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16373, 22 June 1927, Page 7
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