FERTILIZER MIXTURE
Widespread Protests Predicted
(Bv Telegraph.—Press Association,) HAWERA, September 7.
Referring to the Government’s announcement that North Island farmers will not get superphosphate or superphosphate and lime but will be compelled to accept a mixture of superphosphate and serpentine rock, Mr. P, J. Oakley, president of the New Zealand Fertilizer Merchants and Distributors’ Federation, stated today that it was not the farmers interests which had been considered and he anticipated that protests would be widespread when the actual position was. realized. , “Farmers have had their rights restricted and their costs increased and have been compelled to buy a mixture to which the Government has thought fit to give an absolute monopoly and to subsidize it with public money,” said Mr. Oakley. He contended that the mixing of superphosphate and lime in the same proportions Wbuld vield the same output. He described as “daring” the Governments claim that the serpentine mixture was equal to super straight.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 292, 8 September 1942, Page 5
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156FERTILIZER MIXTURE Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 292, 8 September 1942, Page 5
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