STATE TRADING

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 123, 30 June 1941, Page 8

STATE TRADING

BUNGLE IN COPRA TWO YEARS? SUPPLIES In a discussion on the quality oi copra imports at the last meeting of the Auckland Executive of the Farmers' Union the president, Captain Ruslnvorth, explained that the kiln-dried product was usually of better quality and realised £1 a ton more than the sun-dried. It happened that Island merchants had two "years' accumulated sun-dried copra on hand, and they succeeded in unloading 4000 tons of this stale product on the New Zealand ment, which in its turn passed on its purchase to New Zealand farmers, charging a price base*l on kilndried values. Manure Supplies. Mr W. P. Begg drew attention to the restrictions that had been p]acrid upon the use of superphosphates, following upon shipping difficulties. Whereas 600,000 tons had been used in the past tAvelve months, only 300,000 tons would be available for thei new season, and of that 140,000 tons were being reserved for other purposes than the top-dressing of pastures; so that the Quantity left for top-dressing would be only 160,000 tons. Farmers, he said, had to send in application to Wellington for their requirements, based on the past two season's experience, and they would, get about a third of their usual supplies. It was 1 , stated that these restrictions applied to "super"' and products with a "super" basis. Blood-and-bone would not be rationed. Applications for super would have to be in by the 25th of the present month.