STATE ENTERPRISE.
NEW SOUTH WALES TRAWLERS. tFnou Ode Own Cobrespondent.j SYDNEY, June 21. The trawling industry of New South Walea, lock, stock, and barrel, as a going concern, ia looking for someone to take it over. Another sad example of State enterprise, the Government recently tried to get rid of the incubus. It called for tenders for the disposal of the fleet of trawlers, the big central distributing depot, where machinery to the value of £16,730 is installed, the coastal depots, and the city shop premises. No offer was made for the whole of the industry as a going concern; 32 tenders, all from within the State except one from New Zealand, were received for the boats; nobody apparently wants the centra] or coastal depots, and for one of the shop premises, for which the management had to pay £SOO for an interest in the. 12 months’ lease, one reckless person put in a tender for £2O There were no offers for the locally-constructed trawlers; the only tenders were for the English-built boats. These State enterprises, established by idealistic Labour Governments, are like marriage; they are easier to drop into thaii out of.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18899, 27 June 1923, Page 8
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193STATE ENTERPRISE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 18899, 27 June 1923, Page 8
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