FERTILISER COMPANY.
SATISFACTORY VSAR’S PROGRESS DUNEDIN, Tuesday. At the first annual meeting of the Dominion Fertiliser Company the chairman, Mr Peter McSklmmlng, presided over an attendance of 70 shareholders. Tracing the history of the company, which went to allotment In November, 1929, the chairman stated that the building had been completed in February last and manufacturing had been started six months ahead of the date originally proposed. Share capital payments to date exceeded £208,000 and in addition a sum of £20,000 had been placed in debenture capital. Speaking of company's (product, Mr McSklmmlng- mentioned that the price of superphospate was today approximately 27s Gd a ton less than when the company started. On the basis of last year’s output this represented a saving of over, £125,000 to farmers of the South Island. The retiring directors) Mr McSklmmlng and Mr James Fletcher* were re-elected.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18345, 3 June 1931, Page 2
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