NEW ZEALAND FISHERIES.

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 May 1906, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND FISHERIES.

SOME HINTS FROM A VISITOR. BV TKiEGIIA.ru —SPECIAL TO TUE BTAXI J DUNEDIN, This Day. j Regarding the fishing industry, Mr ; Henry Harrow, representative of a weal- I thv Rendon fishing syndicate, who left . Dunedin for Wellington to day, express- I e<! himself thus: “1 have not had time to look closely into your fishing business yet, but I am going up as far as Auckland where 1 hope to see the new fishing toncorn that has been started there. According to my reading of the prospectus they have made the initial mistake of beginning business with old steamers. That is no 'mod. Yon must have new vessels with good hoisting gear and a large hold capacity- As to State fish shops, I have only one opinion. They will fall. Why ! Because fish is an exceedingly- perishable commodity, and only the best of experience can‘work a market successfully. Amateurs need not try. They’d fail every lime. First-class men, who know the whole business, arc essential, and your Government could not get them. I have been forty-five years in the business and that’s how I know. Yes I have made money at it, but that has not been easy. I suppose von have heard of the attempt made by the Baroness Bnrdett Coutts in London to supply fish direct from the sea to the consumer at cost price. That was the work of a philanthropic amateur, and unforeseen contingencies brought it to ruin. For one thing nobody came to licr market to buy.