Mr Marshall Challenged

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30668, 6 February 1965, Page 3

Mr Marshall Challenged

(N.Z. Press. Association) WANGANUI, Feb. 5. “The acting Prime Minister can come out in my boat any time he likes; I’ll show him Japanese fishing inside our limits,” a Wanganui fisherman, Mr B. White, said this morning.

Just back from two days at sea, Mr White was replying to yesterday’s statement by the acting Prime Minister (Mr Marshall), who rejected Mr White’s claims that he had seen Japanese fishing vessels working inside New Zealand territorial waters in the early hours of Sunday morning. Mr White claimed he had seen a boat working about a mile and a half off the Wanganui coast. He said he almost rammed the boat when he suddenly came across it. The Japanese

boat had no lights showing, he claimed. “Mr Marshall is just trying to smooth this thing over,” Mr White said this morning. “That Japanese, boat was working exactly where I said it was, one and a half miles off the coast

“It’s no use Mr Marshall

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denying it I saw it and my crew saw it. “The public want action over this, and it looks as if the Government will have to be forced into taking it.”

MT White said he had been out fishing the last two days, but he had seen no sign of the Japanese. "But they’ll be back,” he said. Mr White said other countries took immediate action against boats infringing their territorial limits.

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