USE FOR HINEMOA REJECTED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24630, 11 June 1941, Page 6

USE FOR HINEMOA REJECTED

The -latest issue of the New Zealand Gazette reports the decision of the Bureau of Industry on a Southland application for a licence to utilise the vessel Hinemoa as a factory for the manufacture of fish manure. The applicants were Mr R. T. Parsons and Dr G. B. Orbell, of Invercargill. The bureau declined to grant a licence. The Gazette states that the purpose of the application was " to take blue cod and other fish (including certain waste fish) for sale, using the fishing vessel Hinemoa, catches to be landed at Halfmoon Bay." A second application, which Was also declined, was for a licence to carry on the wholesale sale of fish. A number of years ago the Hihemoa was the property of the New Zealand Government and was used as a vice-regal yacht and for the serving of lighthouses on the New Zealand coast. She was purchased by Mr W. D. McKay in 1928 and used for two seasons on a passenger service to the West Coast Sounds. For the last 10 years she has been laid up .at Stewart Island. Mr Parsons and Dr Orbell planned to anchor the vessel in Halfmoon Bay and use it as a factory for the manufacture of fish manure, utilising the waste • products of the Stewart Island fishing industry.