UNTRPFD WEALTH.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1921, Page 2

UNTRPFD WEALTH.

'R'ItTI.KS AND TOHTOINK-SHKIX. SYDNF.Y. October *2n A remarkable collection of tortoiseshell jo tin' whole shell and made ''J> into many dainty and beautiful aititl s v. bit'll is being displayed in l'-'rtb. Western Australia,' under file ■■'■spr .- of tbe ('mim'd of Indusrial Developmuiit. direets attention to the alniest totally nnexploited "ealth in turtles and tortoise-shell that exists on t'" north-west roast of the Commonwealth. Turtles are abundant from th" TToetman Abrolhos right round to the coast washed by the Arafura Sea. but no sys'tc ilia tic effort is in existence for their

j economic exploitation. At one 'inn i there was on tho oofst a 1 snniM plant for turniiur turtle ! into Unit dolioious soup sari • ' |liclovotl by British oivio dignitaries. | Init at the present nothing in this direo- : tion is now in progress. Turtle of the most valuable qualities; including the green turtle and the tortoise-shell pro- ! tinring hawUsbiM, abound along the I coastline already mentioned. An offi- ‘ rial notice regarding them is quite definite about the opportunities that- still await energy and enterprise. There ran he no doubt, it says, that, there are numbers* of localities on tin* northwest const such as the t.ncepcde Islands, where extensive and profitable stations for the wholesale export of the living animal, and for the curing or preparation of commercial products of the turtle, which have hitherto lies'll mainly obtained for the Kitrouenn market from the West Indies and the Island of Ascension, can lie established.