A VISITOR FROM JAPAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11876, 30 January 1902, Page 5

A VISITOR FROM JAPAN.

[BY TELEGRAPH.OWN correspondent.] Wellington, Wednesday. Dr. Nishikawa, who is visiting the colony as a Commissioner from the Fisheries Bureau of Japan, in order to study the methods of the fishing industry in Ne\. Zealand and report to the bureau, arrived in Wellington to-day. He has visited the Hakateramea fish hatcheries in the South Island, and proposes to go to Napier to witness some trawling experiments. He is also to visit Auckland, and will travel overland, calling at Rotorua on the way. Speaking to an interviewer, Dr. Nishikawa said that trawling operations in the Japanese waters were conducted by means of sailing vessels, and he hopes that steamers will be employed very soon. The fishing industry in Japan is of very large dimensions, as fish is the principal diet of the people. Cattle breeding is carried on to a limited extent. There are no sheep in the country, therefore he thinks that there would be a good market in Japan for New Zealand wool and frozen meat. He thinks it would be well if a direct line of steamers were established. Already a large quantity of wool is sent from Australia to Japan. Dr. Nishikawa studied zoology at the University of Tokyo, where one of the professors was the Rev. W. Gray Dixon, now of Auckland.