PHOSPHATES
BRITAIN’S AGREED SHARE
MOVE TO UTILISE IT.
DEPUTATION TO GOVERNMENT
(Received 2, 8.20 a.m.) London, Dec. 1
At a meeting ot the Unionist Agri cultural Committee 150 Commoners were appointed a deputation to urge the Government to utilise the agree:: share oi 42 per cent, of the phosphates from Nauru and Ocean Islands under the 1920 agrernent. They suggested that Britain, Australia am New Zealand should instruct the Coa. missiouers to ascertain the lowest f.o.b. price. It is calculated that the annual output is 1,000,000 tons. Mr Harold Briggs, M.P. for Brackley, the organiser, states he was amazed to discover that Britain topi no share. Many British superphosphate manufacturers were relinquishing owing to the lack of cheap material. The farmers urgently needed cheaper fertilisers and Britain was taking a share in the benefit from both. If manufacturers were not as sisted they might make Internationa agreements to regulate the prices adversely to farmers.—(A. and N.Z.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 2 December 1927, Page 7
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