SODIUM CHLORATE
A GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY [ Per Press Association ] WELLINGTON, Sept. 18. The Minister of Agriculture, Hon. C. E. Macmillan, has issued the following statement: With a view to reducing the price of sodium chlorate to farmers, an amount of £5OOO is being made available for the purpose of subsidising purchases of this material. It is proposed that the subsidy should be at the rate of a penny a lb, and that it should be paid to importers very much on the lines of the subsidy to the manufacturers of superphosphate. In the case of a wholesale pu’vhtsc made since August 1 last, the subsidy will be paid direct to the lo ‘.al body or other organisation concerned upon the production of evidence of pur-f ase, and upon an undertaking being civen that where sales have been effected, the benefit of the subsidy be passed on to the purchasing farmers.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 222, 19 September 1934, Page 7
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149SODIUM CHLORATE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 222, 19 September 1934, Page 7
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