FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22142, 22 June 1935, Page 10

FIFTY YEARS AGO

FISHERY RESOURCES POSSIBILITIES EXPLORED Investigations word being made 50 years ago into New Zealand fishery r®* sources. Following is an extract from a summary of a Parliamentary nP or wbidh appeared in the NeWv ZbalA nb Herald of Juno 2!}, 1885: — " One John' Mackenzie has evidently paid the subject great attention and in his sect'on of the report says t a on the East Coast of the North Island, from the Firth of Thames to Whangarei Bay, fish in countless millions frequent the coast. The Kaipara Harbour for a distance of 30 miles swarms witn the largest and finest mullet in tne world, the report .states. , . " From Kaipara to Taranaki fish are not so plentiful, bit become more so as Kapiti is_ reached. From Nelson Cape Campbell this region is _ actually , alive with fish, the Picton herring being most abundant. Fish aro not so plen iful on the West Coast until reaching Martin's Bay. , " The heat of th>3 Auckland climate would, in the writer's opinion, militate against the success of fish present g so" far North, but the neighbourhood or Cook's Strait is considered to ofter good facilities for a fish miring and preserving industry, while as a central .§ and canning station Stewart Is seems to him to ba one of ! the \ suitable places in the world, commana Ing tie best off-shore and on-shore mg ground in the colony.