FERTILISER WORKS’ "GO SLOW" HITTING LOCAL FARMERS
This district is due for the autumn rains any time now, and farmers are getting into something of a fever about late delivery of their fertiliser allocations. This year, they are inclined to hang the blame on the go-slow policy being operated by fertiliser works employees, but say that the deliveries never were on time, anyhow.
Undoubtedly, shortage of railway trucks is a factor in the difficulty, executives of agency firms say, but those who discussed the question with a Beacon reporter yesterday said that, though the position was far from normal, the managements of the fertiliser works were doing their best. According to one agency man who handles a big percentage of the manure that comes into this district, the go-slow means that work is taking anything up to eight times as long as it should at the source. For example, he said he had been told on good authority that it now took four and a half hours to load a three ton truck, a job for which the normal time is about half an hour.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 28, 9 March 1948, Page 5
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185FERTILISER WORKS’ "GO SLOW" HITTING LOCAL FARMERS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 28, 9 March 1948, Page 5
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