NAURU PHOSPHATES

Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1928, Page 3

NAURU PHOSPHATES

LOADING FAC 'I LIT lUS PROYIDFB AUCKLAND. Doc. Tlio operations of the British I’hos phato Commission during l.i.st yc:t have been very successful am! busi iloss has increased .steadily, a cordin to .Air Alhcrt F. F'lis. C omini s-ione for New Zealand on the Board n! Commissioners. who returned I’rom • periodical Business trip to Australia i y the Alaunganui. .Mr IKllis conferred with the Australian Commissioner .Mr C'ivo .McPhcr‘on. at .Melbourne. Mr Kills said that the construction and placing of a loading cantilever at Nauru Island and the construction o' a steel wharf at Ocean Island would lie completed in the New Year, am’ as a result, the loading of pin spirit, on In ships would he greatly lacilitated. ‘‘We are concluding a very satisfactory year,” Mr Id-11 is stated. “Increased i|Uantities of phosphate an (online t,o New Zealand and Australia, and the demand goes on increasing. Mu nufa'-tnrers are holding larger stocks of raw phosphate than over he lore. The -j n a 11 1 iI v hromjdit to tlie Dominion this your is about iJl’O.dC” toils, an next year l expect the ton lingo will he increased to at loa-l, JThIKIO.” Discussing future supplies. Mr k'lis said that even if I lie demand iiirrmo-.-d much more than they anticipated li.--supply of phosphate on Die two islandwould last at least KKI years. Wei v.oathcr which was to lie expected at I his time of (he year, had hindered work on tin l islands lately, hut this was not unusual, and they were copin' wit li I lie demand. When asked the cost ol the U-eW loading facilities at the island---, ADHI is declined to (piote ligu res. hut said the work would run into a e nsideraleo sum. Tin- cost had all be-ei: piorided for.