CANNED FISH.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1921, Page 4

CANNED FISH.

NEW STATE ENTERPRISE. SYDNEY, Aug. 12 The management of the New South Wales State trawling industry has announced that it is now in a position to place before the public the host of canned fish products. When the present management assumed office in July, 1920, it was discovered that fish-canning plant belonging to the industry had been erected by the late management on the premises of the State fish depot at R.urwood ; but no effort had been made towards the canning of fish. About three months ago the plant was dismantled and re-erected in the yard at the central depot, Weolloomooloo. Operations in canning were then commenced, and searching and exhaustive tests were made. The management claims for the product- superiority over any other local or imported tinned fish at present on the market (says i e "Sydney Daily Telegraph”). The new products comprise the following:— Kippered flathead fillets in tomato sauce; kippered finther.d fillets in pure olive oil ; corned flathead fillets; kippered barracoota in tomato same; kippered barracoota in olive oil; kippered mullet in tomato'sauce ; kippered mullet in olive oil; smoked roes in tomato sauce ; smoked roes in pure olive oil ; smoked sardines iif pure olive oil ; whitebait.

Tin- fish is made up in labelled 111) tins. The products will he distributed for the present through the State fish depots, and it is expected that there will he no limit to the expansion of the trade. It is claimed that the success of tin- venture is assured by lir-f, the undeniable quality of the goods; and second, the price to the consumer will be found to he anything from, 9 : to 100 per cent cheaper than other similar goods. The canned fish products of the trawling industry will, it is hoped, soon become a daily household fend throughout Australia. 1 1 is the intention of the management to push oil with the development and expansion of the canning trade, and il is proposed to take immediate steps to operate on the hordes of pilchards which abound on t lie coast.