MONEY IN SHARKS
OIL, FINS; AND MEAT PRODUCTSJ
(From Our Special Representative.)
„ SYDNEY, 27th May. : Someone once said that the Chicago meat-packing factories used everythiojror the pig but its squeal. It can be siidinth equal truth of the shark utilisation factory at (Western Australia!, that it discards only the sea monster's ability to bite. This factory is the first actually in commission heW, though several projects are: on foot to open similar establishments both, in the Eastern Australian States and New Zealand. W-: At Carnarvon, the factory is thrivine. The liver of the shark is used ■ for the extraction of an oil which is claimed to be even better than .the better known cod liver oil. The skins of the monsters are stripped and used for leather, later to be converted to encase milady's*'feet and for her handbags.- Tne fleshes filleted, salted sun-dried, and exported to satiety the delicate tastes of rich Chinese.; The fins are also dried and exported,, to .appear later as that most-prized delicatessen of the celestial, shark-fin soup. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 128, 3 June 1927, Page 8
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172MONEY IN SHARKS Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 128, 3 June 1927, Page 8
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