BEST IN WORLD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19100, 22 August 1936, Page 6

BEST IN WORLD

AUSTRALIAN PISHING ZANB GREY'S OPINION UNRIVALLED PROSPECTS (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. "Australia will develop the greatest fishing ever discovered in the world, and 1 am willing, to stake my reputation on this," said Mr. Zane Grey, Hie l.iofed author and big-game fishing sportsman, interviewed on the Mariposa while 'returning io America. Mr. Grey" declined to enter into a controversy with his friend. Mr. It. G. ' W'iliitiiUP.' of Russell, who accompanied' liim on the Great Barrier Beef trip, and who recently criticised Mr. Gray's statement that'Australian fishing was superior to New Zealand. "My opinion that Australia will lead the fishing world is teased on correspondence from missionaries and market .fishermen extending over five years, and hiy 'own seven'months' intensive fishing this year," Mr. Grey continued, adding that the Australian Government •would f>e taking an. interest in his big

expedition next year for the purpose of" discovering more Australian fisheries. Southern Australian waters abounded in big'yellow- tuna 'which was a valuable industry in California. If Australia, did not develop that industry, the Japanese Would. "There are 13,C00 miles of water in Australia infested with sharks, an, 1 . 1 have never seen anything like it," added Mi'- Grey.