FISHING INDUSTRY
LABOUR SHORTAGE IN NORTH (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Mar. 22.
The fact that thp American authorities last year threatened to bring their own fishing craft into New Zealand waters if the local fishing industry could not maintain a sufficient supply of fish for the American forces in the Pacific was mentioned by an officer of the National Service Department during the hearing of a case before the Industrial Man-power Committee to-day The case was the rehearing of an' appeal by a city grill shpp against the direction of one of its staff to Waitemata Fisheries, Ltd. The officer said that the labour position in the fishing industry was very serious. Last November, when the direction of an employee had taken place and additional hands were urgently required, a large quantity of fish was being shipped to the American Pacific forces. The position had since eased, although there was still a shortage of labour in the industry.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25801, 23 March 1945, Page 6
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