SARDINE-TINNING INDUSTRY

Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1928, Page 2

SARDINE-TINNING INDUSTRY

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AUCKLAND. December 17.

Cnplain V. Gillie li.is arrived al Auckland to report for the New Zealand Marine Products Syndicate on the possibility of the establishment of ; sardine tinning industry in Auckland, but as lie can only speak Italian it was a matter of some difficulty to in terview him. So far Captain Gillit cannot express any opinion in regard to the prospects of the particular in ditstrv here, although in Ids own country it is a matter of national import a lice, and a very rich harvest is reap ed from the sea every year.

Through an interpreter Captain Gillie said that the best hauls were made in the Adriatic Sea, the fish cruising from there are far south as Sardinia. Trawling was done at night with a variety of kinds ol net, strong lights being used to attract llte fish to the suiiface. On the small island of Vis, off the Dalmatian coast, there were eleven sardine I notaries, and each in the season employed from 100 0 000 men. The fish were either tinned in olive oil or salted and there was a world market for them.

The Auckland syndicate, which has engaged Captain Gillie to make investigations, has already carried out a lot of exploratory work and is sanguine that out in the Gulf the right fish are in teeming thousands waiting to be caught and tinned to suit requirements.