OVER SUPPLY OF FISH
POSITION IN THE SOUTH REDUCED AUSTRALIAN DEMAND £BY TELEGRAPH OWN CORRESPONDENT;] BUNEDIN, "Wednesday Fish merchants in Dunedin state that there is a possibility of Australia secur jng some of her supplies of fish else where than from Now Zealand. Some months ago fishermen at Stewart Island were on strike for about eight months, during, which time difficulty was experienced in handling fish for export from Bluff to Australia, most of these . catches boing of blue cod. The freezers at Bluff are now full owing to lack of orders from Australia, • and it is reported that the fishermen have received orders to cease fishing in the meantime, in spite of the fact that at this time of the year fish are very scarce in the Dominion. Under the circumstances the prospects for fishermen when fish are more plentiful do not appoar very bright.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23397, 13 July 1939, Page 14
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146OVER SUPPLY OF FISH New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23397, 13 July 1939, Page 14
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