PEARL SHELLERS SEEK JAPANESE DIVERS
NZPA—Reuter Airmail BRISBANE. The Pearl Shellers’ Association of Australia has asked the Commonwealth Government to allow the indenture of Jananese divers and tenders for work In the Australian pearl shelling industry, said Mr John Nolan, a master pearler, on his arrival in Brisbane from Thursday Island recently. Mr Nolan said the object of the request was to ensure the training of, Torres Strait natives and to overcome the shortage of divers and tenders. Tenders are surface men who look after air-pumping and other apparatus while divers are submerged.
Mr Nolan, who was aboard the cargo ship Elsanna. which was carrying a cargo of £IOO,OOO worth of pearl shell, said that the Commonwealth Government had not replied to the request. (Last October the Australian Minister for Immigration, Mr A. A. Calwell, said that no Japanese divers would be allowed into the Australian pearling industry.)
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26958, 18 December 1948, Page 9
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