ASLEEP ON THE DEEP

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28268, 4 May 1957, Page 10

ASLEEP ON THE DEEP

[By WHIM WHAM) Professor L. R. Richardson, of Victoria University College, said that New Zealand was virtually neglecting the sea as a potential source of enormous wealth-. . . “The bulk of our fish is caught no deeper than 70 fathoms,” he said. "In other parts of the world, commercial fishing is carried on down to 400 fathoms.”—News item. Come on, Sid, and let’s go fishing Rather deeper than before! There’s no Catch in sitting wishing, Blankly gazing from the Shore. Paddling in the Shallows vainly With our Sprat-hooks and our Strings, When our Business should be mainly Deeper, if not Higher Things. Many a queer Fish and a rare one (Once you really start to THINK) Haunts Zelaqia’s Deeps, and dare one Trawl below that ghastly Brink? Real Ideas and genuine Issues Lurk beneath these social Tides Monsters with electric Tissues, Squids with luminous Insides: Richer hauls, of Wealth incredible, Such as Vision brings to Light, Deep-sea Truths which, if not edible. Take some Landing when they bite: Things which underneath that Sea be Unsuspected or forgotten, Fathoms far from “Tiddler” Beeby With his Bent Pin and his Cotton. Simple Simon went a-fishing . . . Come on, Sid, the Water’s fine! One of us can do the Wishing, While the Other holds the Line.