CHEAPER MANURES
Helping the Isolated Areas RESTORING FERTIL1TY A hint that some definite action will be taken to assist farmers in distriets isolated from the main railway system to p i*o cure fertilisers at a cheaper rate than at present wa)s g|iven by the Director-General of Agriculture, Mr. At H. Cockayne, when spealdng to a Gisborne deputation Tecently. "When we were eoming from Tolaga Bay to Gisborne," he said, "oue was torced To admit that although we wero passing through beautiful country which was once the pride of the bushburn country of New Zealand, it was passing from wet-stock country to storestock country. To get .it back to wetstock country depends only on an adequate supply of fertiliaer. I prefer to leave it at that." Mr. E. R. Black, one of a deputation of the SheepowneTs' Union, said that the district was affected by a faliing off in the reproducti.on of live stock. Top-dressing should help, but with heavy freight charges on fertilisers it was impossible to put on suffi&ient to be of any great use. He could not think that the Government could -be satisfied with the system of railway comm^ssions ■whioh benefited only a few farmers.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 157, 21 July 1937, Page 13
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