FERTILISER PRICES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 63, 16 March 1942, Page 3

FERTILISER PRICES

STATEMENT Bl MINISTER. I „ *P-A.) Auckland, March 13. ; The assumption by the North CanId.>uiy Primary Production Council j that the price of fertiliser supplies to wheat-growers was to be increased by 2s to 3s a ton was not only premature i .’Hit also incorrect, stated the Minister . of Marketing, the Hon. D. G. Bar- ' [clay. , '1 he intention of the Government, Mr. Barclay explained, was to maintain the fertiliser prices in the South Island on the same basis as that reicently adopted for the North Island, i i hat was fixation of the inclusive ’sacks in" price. If this course was 'adopted it was likely that increase in rii e to the South Island would be about 2s a ton above last year s rates. Wheat-growers, however, would not be affected as in their case the increase would be absorbed by the Govt rnment. Other forms ol primary production in the south would have to pay for supplies on the same basis as similar producers in the north. Adoption of the ‘sacks' basis for the North Island has been favourably received by the farming community,' .'•cited the Minister, "and will, no , doubt, in view of the fact that the Government had made an urgent apl peal in the vital interest of the I Dominion lor the maximum acreage ; io be sown in wheat, it was only fair lhat wheat producers should receive i every possible encouragement.