NEW COMPANY
FERTILIZER WORKS AT DUNEDIN. (Per United Press Association.) Dunedin, August 23. A company to be known as the Dominion Fertilizer Company has secured from the Harbour Board an area of 8j acres at Ravensbourne and has let a contract for £212,200 to the Fletcher Construction Company to erect a fertilizer building and plant for the manufacture of superphosphate with a total capacity of 75,000 tons per annum. The company has secured from the Harbour Board an undertaking to dredge the channel and to erect wharves accommodating deep-sea vessels alongside the plant. The directors are Messrs R. G. Hudson (Dunedin), Peter McSkimming (Benhar), James Fletcher (Auckland), L. J. Stevens (Auckland), A. C. Leary (Evans Flat) and E. Bowmar (Gore), and a Canterbury farmer yet to be appointed.
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Southland Times, Issue 20862, 26 August 1929, Page 12
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128NEW COMPANY Southland Times, Issue 20862, 26 August 1929, Page 12
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