TRAWLER ARRIVES AT WESTPORT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22512, 21 September 1938, Page 17

TRAWLER ARRIVES AT WESTPORT

5 Fishing Probable At e> Kaikoura :e r--55 1 SENSATIONAL ARREST 6 RECALLED y. y. ' ay rs, N er [THE PRESS Special ■•me*.] WESTPORT, September SO. The arrival at Westport to-day from ee Sydney of the trawler Korowai, of the na ' Red Funnel Company's fleet, in charge of Captain W. Double, recalled ee the sensational arrest of another Au«n. tralian trawler, Alfie Cam, and Captain d Double, three and a half years ago, )! and the resultant trial when the cap£l tain was acquitted on a charge of vioie lating the Fisheries Act by trawling or inside the three-mile limit on the New a. Zealand coast. a « The Korowai is a trim vessel, 126 ?g feet long, fitted with all the latest In trawling devices. The vessel was originally built for the North Sea fishing grounds, and on the Tasman voyage t thoroughly proved her seaworthiness, rs Leaving Sydney on Wednesday, Sepir tember 14, she encountered heavy seas es midway across, but these did not rere tard her very much, and the Korowai in arrived off Westport early this mornjd in §- d. After bunkering at Westport the 55 Korowai will probably trawl at Kair - koura, leaving for Sydney when a sufel flcient supply of fish is accumulated. A member of the crew told the re,d presentative of "The Press" that only ils the rich could buy fish at Sydney at 3. present, an 80-pound box of flatfish bringing the wholesale price of 665. n. French Collier in Port id Included in the six ships berthed at er Westport to-day were two making their at first call to New Zealand, the Sydney Vs trawler Korowai (4885 tons) and the !7. French collier Notou, which arrived y- this morning from New Caledonia, .f; The Notou, which will load a full n cargo of coal, probably 3000 tons, for Noumea, has previously traded beof tween Noumea and New Caledonia and rs Australian ports. The officers are £ Frenchmen and the crew Kanakas and m ' Chinese. ■t- When questioned by "The Press" rein presentative on the significance of the i- more or less sudden call at Westport r - for coal, with the 1 Australian miners* strike, officers of the Notou were very ■j a reticent. so The overseas vessel Antigone (8500 r- tons), the Union Company's colliers Kiwitea (2345 tons), and Poolta (1675 tons), and the Anchor Company's »x vessel Alexander, were other ships in ia the port.