FERTILISER SUPPLIES
PRICE-CUTTING COMPETITION
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, October 12,
Superphosphate is now available to farmers at £3 16s per ton as a result of reselling competition between dairy companies and merchants. It is stated that there is no dispute between the manufacturers, whose prices to the trade remain the same—£.4 per ton, less discount. Price-cutting competition in tho trade has been brought about by the term;, of the Order in Council issued in July, according to a statement made. This fixed the maximum price in the North Island at £4 per ton and also provided conditions relating to discounts and commissions which now prevent manufacturers from fixing the retail price to iho farmer. Under these conditions dairy companies have been able to cut prices by forgoing their trading margin. The move has been followed by some merchants, but a meeting will be held next, week to discuss the position.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19341013.2.195
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 90, 13 October 1934, Page 21
Word Count
150FERTILISER SUPPLIES Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 90, 13 October 1934, Page 21
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in