A JAPANESE VISITOR.
Per Press Association
WELLINGTON, January 31.' <: ~
-Dr. Nis&ikawa, who is visiting the colony as a Commissioner from the Fisheries Bureau of Japan, in order to study the methods of the fishing industry in New Zealand and report to the. Bureau, arrived in Wellington to-day. He has visited the Hakiitaramea fish hatcheries dn the South Island, and proposes to go to Napier to witness some trawling exi>eriments. He. is also to "visit Auckland, and will travel overland, calling at Rotorua. on the way. Speaking to an interviewer, Dr. Nishikawa said that trawling operations in the Japanese waters were conducted by means of sailing vessels, and he hopes that steamers will be employed very soon. The fishing industry in; Japan is of very large dimensions, as fish is the- principal diet of the people. Cattle breeding1 is carried on to a limited extent, and there are no sheep in the country. Therefore he thinks there would be a. good market in Japan for New Zealand wool. Frozen meat, also, he thinks would do well if a direct line of steamers were established. Already a large quantity of wool is sent- from Australia, to Japan.
Dr. Nishikawa studied zoology at the University of Tokio, where one of the professors was the Rev. W. Gray Dixon, now of Auckland. -
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Wanganui Chronicle, 1 February 1902, Page 2
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