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Phosphates
WITH the shipping of 153,000 tons of phosphate in June from Nauru and Ocean Islands the previous monthly record was easily exceeded,’’ said Sir Albert Ellis, New Zealand Commissioner on the British Phosphate Commission in Auckland recently. Sir Albert Ellis esti mated that for the year ending June 30, a record total of 1,200,000 tons would be exported.
More than 80 per cent, of the phosphate was imported into Australia and New Zea land.
The second of two surf boats ordered by the Union Steam Ship Company for lightering cargo at Rarotonga was ship ped from New Zealand to Rarotonga in June. The boat is 30 ft. long and has a beam of 9 ft.