WHAREHOU, AHOY!

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1049, 11 February 1911, Page 4

WHAREHOU, AHOY!

■; /.-'/■ ■>'::::.'.♦,;,''.. ' yy\-y'\\ : -... THE COM?™* '": ! vwe are in'; New? Zea- . / land, debarred from'dating,' any thing .. from ""when 'the""-'swallows" ''homeward *', fly," but there isa.chance for the local v poet: to ,weaye\a,- -homely ,-. sentiment . about that time'"when the" wliarehdu breasts the beach!" -.There;is: usually : an abundance of this fish about Wellington in. early- autumns -They.: MtaV.in ' their thousands off Paekakariki,' and-.-: Plimmerton, work down • the; coast to • Wharehou Bay (Makara), and finish a month's season off Palliser<Bay./.Last .-. week they, were'as ''thick as leaves in .'-;.- Vallombrosa'' off : the Makara / Beach,. : and "dozens'of -cartloads'' '■ of;; splendid-,,-V conditioned fish: were brought into'town- *,'' and sold very, .cheaply.. The'price ob- ; taihed by the "fishermen 1 from those en- ;.. gaged in'thefretail' trade, in;town fell . '■' so low—to 2d."or 3d. for"slb. to 91b. fish-rthat one fisherman backed his cart * . into the auction mart on -Wednesday -...'-.". mbrning.iand there and then 'the "spoil "" ?■■ of the ocean were sold r very smartly" to v a : -; 'merry crowd: of arid European,' :''. frhiterers,who' , pbtained fine wharehou for.from sd. to Bd.'per fishr; The Tecentj. ; southerly weather was not .propitious for wharehou netting; but the.shoal waa , expected" to ,-returri with .the; warm " breath of: the north wind. .'A ; great ■•■■.'■■' number, have been stacked away incold " , store, but so far ; none'have "been ex- •-'■. ported to Sydney, as ; was- done: in previous, wharehou seasons.,'.'.":;;;; ".visxi '.;