LIME SHORTAGE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24406, 18 September 1940, Page 9

LIME SHORTAGE

SOUTHLAND'S DIFFICULTY OUTPUT TO BE INCREASED • Special to Dailv L'imESJ INVERCARGILL. Sept. 17. An undertaking to execute ordeis for 3400 tons of lime urgently required in Southland for cultivation purposes was given by representatives of the lime companies of the province when they met the Lime Committee of the Southland Council of Primary Production to-day. This quantity which will be delivered during the next three months, is additional to orders already booked by companies which, il is understood, total 135,000 tons. The committee agreed to urge the Government to exempt companies from payment of time and a-half overtime rates for Saturday afternoon work so that an additional shift a week might be arranged. The companies' representatives emphasised the necessity for farmers to return bags promptly to the works. They stated that a considerable amount of delay was being caused in deliveries through farmers retaining the com* panies' bags for an undue length of time. One representative said that his company was unable at present to execute orders because the whole of its stock of 65,000 bags was in the hands of farmers.