THE FISHING INDUSTRY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21400, 10 May 1944, Page 4

THE FISHING INDUSTRY

Sir,—Your editorial in connection with the fishing industry was timely. No doubt some residents of Gisborne would have noted the destruction a few days ago on Haiti Beat'll of a fishing vessel, which was the direct result of State meddling. To my mind, this vessel should have been left as a monument to State inefficiency and to serve as a w11.,-n----jng to those complacent people who think that State handling or control gives them the utmost efficiency and economy. Inc position is chimerical. The result of tins meddling has been that a country like tins, surrounded by waters teeming with varieties of fish, lias to go days on end without them and. when they are obtainable, at a cast, out of all proportion to what it should be l would suggest that, instead of another Koval Commission at rfiore expense to an already overburdened taxpayer, an Ordoi-m-Cout ul should give anyone the right to take ash i i sale who wishes, to and, if there is a surplus for the New Zealand market, export Unbalance to Australia, where there is anparcntly a demand. No -doubt the c.xli. revenue would lie welcomed by tbu itnoin meal. 1{ OTWAY.