LATE LOCALS.
The whitebait season now concluded has been one oil the best on record, a very large quantity of these fish having been secured, all the rivers up and clown the Coast having provided theii quota, the fine weather period experienced throughout October proving"very suitable, allowing the little visitors to enter the rivers without disturbance. The canning factory of Irvine and Stevenson Ltd. in Beach Street'put up a record output, about thirty tons of dainty fish being canned, their disbursements to the fishers being in the vicinity of three thousand pounds. Their purchases were* probably not mine than one fourth of the total catch, a majority of which was sent to ( hiistchurcli by rail, where it realised very remunerative prices. '1 he catch ol the past season would tend to indicate there.* is no reduction ol this fish, the supply this year having been fully enual to the he«t of previous seasons. The industry is proving a very valuable one*, a large sum of money being received for the catch.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1929, Page 5
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