SEA WEALTH.
. —- NEGLECTED OPPORTUNITIES,
"We are still savages. Primitive people hunt for their food, and civilisatibn began when our ancestors learned that it is better to domesticate and protect the herds and crops of Nature instead of merely grabbing >3 much of them as possible. In forestty we .are just passing out of the savage state for we are beginning to do something more than grab/ 5 said Mr E. W. Bennett, M.Sc., in an address to the W.E.A. on Saturday night. . "We are wondferfully haphazard in this country," said Mir Bennett; "Wo allowed the fur seal almost to be wiped out of existence. •We do hot get a penny of the rich harvest reaped by the foreigners who come from the other side of the 'globe to exploit the whales of our seas. We value our whitebait, certainly, but in a senseless way, for we are doing our best to eradicate them, Arid some day, perhaps, oiie of the richest men in this oountry will be the man who develops an eel-canning industry." I
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19109, 19 September 1927, Page 8
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175SEA WEALTH. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19109, 19 September 1927, Page 8
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