FISH TRADE PROGRESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18565, 24 November 1923, Page 10

FISH TRADE PROGRESS.

CANNING OF CRAYFISH, DEPARTMENT'S' PEOpJ||| DEPARTMENT'S PROPOg^| AUCKLAND FIRM'S EXPANSION ; Progress -in - connection with New land's -fishing, industry .was indicant.statements made on board" the steam fish xng vessel Countess yesterday by th Minister for Marine, the , Hon. G. J a derson, and by Mr. Gilbert Sanford 5* Sanford's, Ltd. ' o{ The Marine Department, said Mr |- derson, hoped to institute the canning crayfish, for which there was a good L ket in the Old World, and also in United States, under the name of In , a very short time, if the C»bS agreed, as he thought it would, they in, tended to take steps to encourage • th* establishment of canning factories. <n chief inspector of fisheries, . Mr. -I"- •J| Ayson, had pat forward a practfrtal proposition, and the newly. a pp 0 i nt . f] secretary to the department, Mr. God frey, was enthusiastic about it. -jj," Minister said he was endeavouring fx have a vessel able to visit, if necessarr l " the Ross Sea dependency to protect thseals. The seals in the past were fill finest in the world, and he thought tlw» would come„ back again. >. Mr. Sanford forecasted development® the fishing and allied industries in Auckland. His company, he said, was getting out plans for its own freezing Works manure works, and ice-making plant; but it had not touched upon the canning 'business yet, though it might do so after * while. The new works, which were to j"l in Freeman's Bay, would cost about £55,000. - In the course of a few weeks the company would be asking the public ft* more capital, to try to push the industry ahead, as it should be. & Instead of importing kippers, bloaters herrings, New Zealand should be elgtS ing. The grounds around Auckland were" he thought, more prolific in fish than any other grounds either in New Zealand in Australia. Trawling had been successfill, but, unfortunately, the bottom of the sea from the . Great Barrier to the North Cape was very bad, and trawlers oonld not operate. Consequently they had to go to the Bay of Plenty. The cob,. pany had given trawling: on the Wot Coast a very good trial, bat cornier, daily it had not been successful," '

There was, a great future before the Auckland fishing industry, if legislation was not inroduced to cripple it.