TRAWLERS FOR N.S.W.

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 January 1929, Page 9

TRAWLERS FOR N.S.W.

NEW VESSEL ARRIVES “If one accepts dockside talk in England, trawling conditions on the Australian coast are much easier than in Home Waters.” said an officer of the trawler Goolgwai on the arrival of the vessel in Sydney from Fleetwood.

The Goolgwai is the seventh unit of the Red Funnel fleet, and was recently bought in England from the Boston Deep Sea Fishing Company. In company with the Durraween, the Goolgwai left Fleetwood on September 15. The two vessels experienced good weather, and kept company until they reached Colombo. A few hours after leaving the coast of Ceylon they became separated, and the Goolgwai made for the rendezvous at Qocos Island. Abnormally strong south-east trade winds were encountered, and the captain decided against the appointment, and made for Albany, which was reached on November 25 after a rough passage. Meanwhile the Durraween struck a submerged object with her propeller, and made for Batavia for repairs. She will come to Sydney via Torres Strait. A majority of the Goolgwal’s crew of 13 are fishermen, and will stand by the trawler. They expressed some concern at the report of industrial trouble in Australia received on the way out, and were relieved to hear that the trouble had been adjusted. Prominence was given abroad, they said, to a statement that 20,000 men were on strike, and that there were grave riots in Melbourne and other ports. The Goolgwai is a vessel of 271 tons gross and . was formerly the Almeria She was built in Canada in 1919.