Several months ago the Government, realising the importance to the farmer of an ample supply of (heap manures, brought the niaiutfacturer.s and distributors together with the object of bringing the prices down, the inducement being ail offer to substantially cut railway freight if a corresponding drop could he made in the commodity. The negotiations were not particularly successful, as the various interests demonstrated that their margins of profit were not large. However, some improvement was madeif and the latest drop, made voluntarily, is n hopeful thing for the farmer, whose only way to prosperity appears to he along ill’ sound iino of reducing working costs and improving the output. “V.’airnrnnn Ago.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1927, Page 4
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