EGYPTIAN PHOSPHATE-DEPOSITS.
The Department has received a communication from Mr. W. E. Kingsford, a i business man of Cairo, and president of the British Chamber of Commerce in, that city, regarding phosphate - deposits in Egypt. Mr. Kingsford submits the following propositions to the Department : (i) To act as its buying and shipping ''agent for whatever phosphates are obtainable from companies now working mines ; (2) to take up on its behalf a prospecting license, with eventual lease of mine approved (3) to negotiate on its behalf with existing licensees a working arrangement for taking over their, rights in a mine not yet worked owing to lack of capital. Mr. Kingsford has been informed that the Government does not at present propose to take any steps in the matter, as it is considered more a question for private than for Government enterprise; but that publicity will be given to his proposals for the information of any person or association in New Zealand who might be interested in the matter of phosphate-supplies from abroad.
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XII, Issue 6, 20 June 1916, Page 489
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171EGYPTIAN PHOSPHATE-DEPOSITS. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XII, Issue 6, 20 June 1916, Page 489
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