FISH CANNING INDUSTRY
Factory On Cook Strait DEPLETED SUPPLIES FEARED, (United Press Association.) Wellington, October 19. When approached to-day about the projected establishment of a fish canning factory on Cook Strait, the Minister of Marine (the Hon. P. Fraser) said that he had read a report on the subject with considerable interest. The Minister said that while this project might conceivably be an interesting industrial development, it should be clearly understood that there was one danger which would have to be guarded against and that was the depletion of fish supplies. The people of New Zealand must have first call on the fish round the New Zealand coasts, as fish formed an important food supply. The question of the export of fish must necessarily take second place. The Minister added that no doubt any future trawling or fish packing enterprises, if established, would probably have to conform to the provisions of the Industrial Efficiency Bill, when that Bill became law, and would necessarily be the subject of a close scrutiny.
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Southland Times, Issue 23025, 20 October 1936, Page 6
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170FISH CANNING INDUSTRY Southland Times, Issue 23025, 20 October 1936, Page 6
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