Fishermen Welcome Hampton Report

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31724, 6 July 1968, Page 38

Fishermen Welcome Hampton Report

The president of the Fishing Boat Association (Mr B. R. Walker) said yesterday that he agreed fully with the recommendation of the late Dr W. F. Hampton that the authority for the fishing industry be put in one pair of hands.

Mr Walker said there should be one highly-orga-nised body to deal with fishing, instead of a proliferation of bodies and committees tripping over each other, as they had been in the past

ing port in the country— Auckland—ignores the relation of Gisborne to all other fishing ports in New Zealand,” said Messrs Fountain and Dick. “It should not be overlooked that in the last three years Nelson has risen from sixth to second place, next to Auckland, for total tonnage of wet fish landed.

The recommendation of Dr Hampton would be welcomed by the fishing industry, provided it was implemented.

Statements that Nelson was not a suitable place for a national fisheries training school were without foundation, the secretary and the director of the Nelson Polytechnic, Messrs A. D. Fountain and J. Y. W. Dick, said yesterday, according to a Press Association message During the Address-in-Reply debate in Parliament, Mrs E. L Tombleson (Govt, Gisborne) said Gisborne was the logical place for such a school.

“The geographical position of Gisborne would not allow training in West Coast fishing conditions, as would be the case from Nelson,” they said. Mrs Tombleson said in Parliament that the views of the Hampton report on the fishing industry, favouring Nelson as a base for New Zealand’s fishing industry, were unable to stand up to critical analysis by those with an intimate knowledge of local conditions. Mrs Tombleson said that small fishing boats, such as

The analysis of the fishing industry released this week suggested Nelson as the site. “Her claim that Gisborne is closest to the largest fish-

those working from Gisborne, were more economic than the large Nelson-based vessels.