OYSTERS AND WHITEBAIT

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21155, 3 July 1940, Page 8

OYSTERS AND WHITEBAIT

LICENSED INDUSTRIES NEW REGULATIONS ISSUED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Wednesday Two amending licensing notices have been issued under the provisions of the Industrial Efficiency Act, 1936 relating to the sale of whitiebait and dredge oyster*. The Acting Minister of Industries and Commerce, the Hon. D. Wilson, stated today that the two licensed industries affected are fish wholesalers and fish retailers, and in both cases the defination of “fish,” for the purposes of the notices, has been amended so as to include Foveaux Strait or dredge oysters within the licensed industries and to exclude whitebait and dredge oysters. The effect of the amending notice, so far as whitebait is concerned, is that persons will not now require to be licensed to sell whitebait, whether by wholesale or retail. In regard to dredge oysters, the Mininter made it clear that no person could sell them by wholesale without the authority of the Bureau of Industry. A clause in the amending notice relating to wholesalers states, in effect, that existing fish wholesalers’ licenses do not extend to the sale by wholesale of dredge oysters, so that all persons desirous of selling cysters by wholesale must apply immediately to the Bureau of Industry. In the retail industry, the position is different, however, and present holders of fish retailers’ licenses may sell oysters subject to the existing conditions of their licenses, without reference to the Bureau. Oyster saloons which deal in oysters only, will require to make application to_the Bureau forthwith.