SARDINE TINNING

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 141, 18 December 1928, Page 10

SARDINE TINNING

COMPANY'S PROPOSAL (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. Captain V. Gilic has arrived at Auckland to report for the New Zealand Marino Products Syndicate on the {.ossibility of tho 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 hia own country it is a matter of national importance, and a very rich harvest is reaped from tho sea every year. Through an interpreter Captain Gilic said that the best hauls Vere made i» the Adriatic Sea, tho fish cruising from there- as far south as Sardinia. Trawling was done at night with a variety of kinds of net, strong lights being used to attract the fish to tho surface. On the small island of Vis, off tho Dalmatian coast, there were eleven sardine factories, and each in the season employed from 400 to 500 men. The fish were either tinned in olive oil or salted, and there was-a world market for them. Tho Auckland syndicate, which lias engaged Captain Gilic to make investigation's, has already carried out_ v lot of exploratory'work and is sanguine that out in the Gulf the right fish are in teeming thousands waiting to be caught and tinned to suit requirements.