FISH EXPORT TO AUSTRALIA

Taranaki Daily News, 26 January 1934, Page 2

FISH EXPORT TO AUSTRALIA

AN EXPANDING TRADE. VISIT OF MR. MARCUS MARKS. The export of fish from the South Island to Sydney has doubled in the last 12 months.and it will probably be increased by as much again during the coming 12 months if the hopes of Mr. Marcus Marks, managing director of Marks and Company Ltd., one of Sydney’s largest wholesale fish dealers, are realised. Mr. Marks is visiting New Zealand on business connected with the expansion of the fish trade between New Zealand and Australia. The large increase in the trade, Mr. Marks explained, at Christchurch, had come about as a result of the favourable business conditions existing between the two countries. There were no exchange costs and fish from New Zealand had to pay no sales tax or Customs duty, because of the trade agreement in operation between the two countries. As a

result, said Mr. Marks, his firm was taking a great deal of fish from New Zealand which it had formerly obtained from Great Britain.

In the past the greater part of the export from New Zealand has come from Bluff and Stewart Island but it is hoped to make early arrangements for supplies from each of the main ports, so that Lyttelton fishermen should benefit considerably from the increased trade.

The fish are sent to Australia in cold storage by the ordinary cargo steamers. There most of them, with the exception of the flat fish, are smoked and distributed to the retailers throughout Sydney and its suburbs. Flat fish and blue cod are the most popular lines. ~•-