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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1847, 31 July 1907, Page 13

A Dunedin exchange gives particulars as to ja new trawling company that is bet’ng formed in that city. It is intended o acquire a first-class steam trawler with refrigerator and all the latest appliances, to cost about £9OOO. It will be able to steam twelve knots per hour. Mr Alexander Wilson, one of the principals in the company, will be the master. He has had several years' experience in the industry at Home. Mr Wilson estimates that the total working expenses of the vessel contemplated would be about £4O a week. At Home the first-class trawlers usually catch from £l5O to £250 worth of fish per week, and should the local demand be equal to Mr Wilson’s conception of it, he estimates that the new trawler would pay for itself in a little over a year. The capital of the company is to be £12,000. .The Americans (says an American authority) are the ideal engineers for rapidly opening up a new route in wild country, but the British are the men to build the railway which is to last. In Java women and young girls do all the work of porters, carrying heavy loads on their heads with great skill. As soon as a Javanese girl can walk she ‘s taught the art of carrying things in that way. There ought, says “Engineering,” to be in every large mill a well-equipped brigade, consisting of men who are there employed, and they should have trained practice periodically.