OYSTERS.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 527, 21 March 1908, Page 2

OYSTERS.

STATE CONTROL*OF WHOLESALE INDUSTRY. [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, March 20. Mr L. F. Ayson, Chief Inspector of jbisheries, is now in Auckland arranging for a depot at which oysters can bo delivered and sold, and also for the picking of the Hauraki Gulf. The picking will be under the control of the Inspector of Fisheries at Auckland and that at the Bay of Islands will be in charge of the Inspector at Russell. These Inspectors will have, under them gangs of pickers, and the. gangers will be responsible to the Inspectors. The pickers will be experienced men. In connection with this work the Department has just let a contract to Mr Charles Bailey, junior, of Auckland, for the construction of two oil launches at a cost of £328 each. At the depot nothing undw » sack of oysters will be sold, the State confining itself to the wholesale busines.s Thus, if dealers want 100 or 50 sacks or under the oysters will be despatched from the depot direct. An important point is the price is to be reasonable; that is to say, no monopolists as in the past will be allowed to "cor- ( Uer" the oyster market and sell the bottle at 2s when its proper value is ; only Is. It is anticipated that the ; season's demand will be met by an ' output of 20,000 sacks, and that quantity from present indications is easily in sight at Waiheke Island, in < the Hauraki Gulf, on tho Great Bar- < rier, and in the Bay of Islands. j