FERTILISER PRICES.

Wairarapa Age, 11 February 1927, Page 7

FERTILISER PRICES.

A MINISTER’S OBSERVATIONS. MOBILISING BUYING POWER. HAMILTON, February 10. Speaking at the opening of the Morrinsville Dairy Factory, the Hon. O. J. Hawkcn, referring to the p/esent fertiliser “war,” said that the movement which had been responsible for the bringing down of the cost of fertilisers was the kind which had been in vogue in Denmark for years. It was merely a mobilisation of buying power and should be adopted more extensively by the farming community. Standardisation, with a formidable buying organisation, was what was wantfed. If they had this combination the fanners would be able to get their implements and other requirements far cheaper that at present. Both Mr. Samuel, M.P., and Mr. McMillan, M.P., spoke at length on the fertiliser question, and declared that the farmers had boon farmed long enough by the fertiliser people. Only when they showed the distributors that they were not bluffing and had farmed a company of their own had the price come down 30s per ton. All the Government could,get them to do previously was to reduce by Is 6d per ton. . The forcing down of the prices was a splendid example of what co-operation could do. It now remained for the farmers to be loyal jn order to retain the advantages they had gained.—(P.A.).