BASIC SLAG.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 May 1919, Page 8

BASIC SLAG.

NO SUPPLIES AVAILABLE. About the end of last year Mr. Newton King wrote to the Prime Minister in regard to the importation of slag into the "Dominion from England, and he has ijti<yv received a reply dated from Paris, March 17. A'r. ilassey says that lie communicated Willi Lord Enimolt, Director of the War Trade Department in London, soliciting his influence in obI tabling some concession in the restricr tions at present in force regarding the I- export of slag from the United Kingdom, lie pointed out how bndly slag is jiefjjjired in New Zealand and how grcat- • Iv'it would he appreciated by the proI d iicets Jic-ftJ if. a few thousand tons could f b(* released fov pxport to the Dominion. \ -He anpjpscß Lord Wminott's reply, which I is to the effpet that the Pood Production department caneiriprs thp export of slag is New Zealand is Impossible at presont, for the following reasons:— (i) Maoj' months ago the whole output of baahfi slag up to May 31, 1910, was . fopught ahead, by the P.rHish farmer. ~ (j() Ifee ft«t9Hflt ftVftiWtla w&8 Rothinjj

like enough to satisfy the demand. (3) Since then the output has fallen off greatly owing to labor troubles, and we are already in difficulties with farmers who cannot understand why the contracts they entered into are not being fulfilled.' 14] We have equally earnest applicaf tions from other colonies and dominions and are obliged to return the same answer to everybody.