AUCKLAND OYSTER FISHERIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10962, 3 May 1907, Page 2

AUCKLAND OYSTER FISHERIES.

(Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, this day. There was a large gathering of about fifty oyster pickers m the vicinity of the Customs House yesterday. It was gathered that they .were dissatisfied with the action of. the" Government, in not opening- the .beds on which they could profitably _ work, and as a : consequence had decided not to take out a license. There are . about 100 pick.ers m Auckland, and on inquiry it was ascertained that only three licenses had been ap?lied for. These were taken out early m lje 'morning, and since then no applicaiioßs" l»'ad §een "received; -although , the se^dh-ropeivai 'tjie prdvigus "day* ' "It'.s this" way," >xplajnet|^ j»ckpr jp '-a Star reporter. "The beds opened up are innocent of oysters, and it would not pay us to take out a license. We talked matters aver this 1 morning and are more determined than ever not" to take out licenses. JrV^ will wait on the Minister for Marine aiid 'place V^gJ'e him our views. We think that 'Wajhjs'ko and other places where oysters are plentiful should havo been opened and not the present lot, which need closing for a time to enable the fish to develop.