CANTERBURY NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 599, 30 August 1909, Page 7

CANTERBURY NEWS.

.'. OUR FISH' SUPPLY. (By Telesraph-Sueclal OorresDondcnt.l ' Chrlstchurcft, August 28. A movement is on foot to form a club for the purpose of fostering ©otor cycling in Canterbury. It is computed that there arc from 150 to 200 motor cyclists in Cantorbury who are unassociatcd with any club or association, and it is felt that ivith the formation of a dub m'uoh would be done to inoreaso tho popularity of the motor cycle Jivery day sees piles of timber passing through 11'Kenzia township on its way , to the Waiati bridge site, and gradually the heap of material on the river bank is growing in size. The building of this bridge will absorb 161,000 super, feet of totara, 378,000 feet of jarrah' 12.000 feet of ironbark, 10,000 lineal feet of piles (equal to 120,000 super feet), and 202 tons of steel. Tho totara is being milled in tho Auckland province, tho' jarrah is due to arrived Lyttelton in Sepand the steel work is all being made in England. Besides l erecting workmen's huts and "a temporary dwelling for himself, Mr. -Frasor .(the contractor) will erect an extensive plant, including ,two steam engines, one to.be ueed for sawing and boring, and one for pile-driving. A booklet dealing with the scientific results of the New 'Zealand Government trawling expedition, whioh has' been published by Mr. E. It. Waite, Curator of the Canterbury Museum, that the total weight of marketable fish brought to port by tho r L dur , i ? s tho , thrco months* ornise was 46,7501b. Mr. Anderton, who supplied the report on the operations at the Chatham Islands, writes: "It,was a sight to see the boats returning after a couple of hours' fishing loaded to the gunwale with blue ood Four Pitt Islanders caught 230 of the largest blue cod I have over seen, and this was in less than an hour and a half's fishing off the north-west corner of Pitt Island.' Six of tho orow caught 606 bluo ood and 103 largo hapuka in seven hours off Whangaroa' and on another occasion caught 860 blue cod in t'hi'eo hours and a half. Almost all tho mon wore inexperienced in tho art 1 of bluo cod fishing, making tho catch all tho moro remarkable. It is extremely probable that the Chatham Islands will in tho near future become one of the most important sources of our fish supply." Mr. Waite states that he fully agrees with Mr. Anderton's remarks, and considers that, with tho great demand for blue oojd in New Zealand and Australia and tho prodigioue supply to be won around* tho Chatliams and neighbouring islets a very profitablo industry should bo maintained.