SARDINE-TINNING INDUSTRY

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 72, 18 December 1928, Page 10

SARDINE-TINNING INDUSTRY

MAY BE ESTABLISHED IN NEW ZEALAND Dominion Special Service. Auckland, December 17. Captain V. Gilic has arrived at Auckland to report for the New Zealand Marinfi Products Syndicate on the possibility of the establishment of a sardine tinning Industry In Auckland, but as he can only speak Italian it was a matter of some difficulty to interview him. So far Captain Gilic cannot express any opinion in regard to the prospects of the particular industry here, although in his ovn country it is a matter of national importance, and a very rich harvest is reaped from the sea every year. Through an interpreter Captain Gllie said that the best hauls were made In the Adriatic Sea, the flth cruising from there as far south as Sardinia. Trawling was done at nighl with a variety of kinds of net. strong Ights being used to attract the flsh to the surface. On the small island of Vis, off the Dalmatian coast, there were eleven sardine factories, and each in the season employed from 400 to 500 men. The flsh were either tinned in olive oil or salted, and there was a wcrid market for them. The Auckland syndicate, which has engaged Captain Gilic to make investigations, has already curried out a lot of exploratory work rnd is sanguine that out in the Gulf tie right flsh are in teeming thousands waiting to be caught and tinned t) suit requirements.