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THE MAORI MESSENGER. Auckland, June 30, 1833.

One of the principal objects of this Journal has over been to draw the attetion of i t s native readers to the means by which nations and individuals rise to wealth and greatness. Willi that object in view, we have endeavoured lo lead the nativo mind lo an earnest consideration of the various ails of coni*sTiorcial and agricultural industry, and to lake a wise advantage of the happy circuit), stances in which Providence has placed them. Asmt, out, chief efforts have boon aimed at ii'cnlealing the benefits to be derived from an improved and extended system of Agriculture,—from a more general prosecution of the wise and profitable system of dairy farming—from tin; blooding and feeding of sheep, and Iho consequent growing of wool,—and, in a word, from redeeming Iho country from its stale of primal waste, and converting it lo the great and beneficial purposes for which God in his infinite wisdom designed it. Ililherlo all our ell'orls have boon directed towards the prosecution of industry on shore; but there is another, and, lo the New Zoalander, a congenial clement from which much individual and national wealth may ho thaw 11,—wc moan from the Ocean, which teems with abundance or choice food, available to our own necessities, and capable of being converted lo a source of vast commercial enterprise. Among the maritime naiionsof Kuropc, the deep sea fisheries have long boon 0110 of the chiefosl elements of prosperity anil strength. Every care has boon exercised to promote and encourage such an essential branch of trade; not merely because of ils vast commercial importance, but because of the unrivalled seamen that thriving fisheries create; and because of the great ami varied employment which they occasion lo numberloss classes of the coiumunilv.

Holland, long the in iriliine and commercial rival of England, owes all her wealth and grandeur lo her successful prosecution of the fisheries—principally the herring lislicrics. So valualilc wasthis, and still is, thai the Hollanders have a remarkable saying, thai their principal sea port,— the nourishing eily of Amsterdam,—was built upon herring hones. Sj important indeed was Ihis great branch of national industry thai her Sovereignallirmcd thai "every (il'ili man earned his subsistence by it; that Holland derived Iter main support Ironl ii; and llial the herring lishcry ought to hc considered as Ihe riglil arm of the stale." Al llic period of her greatest prosperity Holland possessed no less ihan 5000 boats of various kinds which she employed in the bays and inlets of her own coast; whilst upon Ihe adjoining coasts of Knglan J and 'Scotland she had 800 vessels of from (SO lo loOlons burthen, engaged chielly in the cod ryrt ling lislicrics; in addition lo ibis there Vffis a Heel of 1000 basses, or large boais, actively prosecuting the herring fishery, and each of these boats was calculated to give employment to three other boats, in carrying salt and other necessaries lo the fisheries, and in returning with cured fish; so llial' the lolal number of shipping engaged in anil connected with the herring lishery alone amounted lo 010!) ve.-sels, which gave employment lo 112,000 mariners and fishery men. It was, thus, through Ibis {'real and nourishing Hade that Holland was for many

years Hie foremost among Ihe naval powers or Europe,— thai her Meets so long anil successfully illspuU'il the sovereignly of the Ocean with iliosc or England,—and Ihalshe slill combines to occupy a prominent position amongst iho maritime and commercial nations of the world. This successful industry of Holland was not long lost upon such nu energetic and enterprising people as the English. They saw (lie importance of profiling Ityf heir own fisheries, instead of permitting Ihellollandeis to take their lisli from the. English coasls, and sell them to Hie English for English gold. Accordingly, every encouragement that the King and l'arliameiit could ali'ord to further the successful prosecution of British Fisheries was eagerly conferred, until, by slow degrees, the Hollanders were not only driven out of Ihe English markels, hut had in the long run to compete with English fishermen and their produce in foreign markets. As an example of ihe happy results at lending the establishment of ISritish fisheries, we shall quote Ihe progress and prosperity which rewarded an experiment made at the mouth of the Helmsdale, a river in Scotland, and first commenced in (lie year ISM. There, a storehouse and a curing house were creeled, and the boats were manned by the people brought from the mountains and Ihe interior of the country. Everything was new to them in the employ they were about to engage in. The lisliiug commenced on the lOlh July, and ended on the ."id t'epicmher INK; and the produce of four boats was respectively H)'il. % 83/., !)(i/., and MS/. They wen; manned by four men j each, so lliat they made on an average ] rather more than 'lit. a man, and that in ! less lliaii Iwo months. In 1.517 llii:; fishery i gave employment to about 20!) Ushers, 17 ]

coopers, ;iml ir>o women. In Ittltt to 70 coopers, :>H) women, 700 men, and MO bonis; and in the year LSI!) the quantity caught anil cured al Helmsdale amounted lo no less llian 2->,X7ti .barrels of hci-riiius, besides upwards of ll)l),0;il) cud and linjj." The subject of tlm fisheries is much 100 Slave and important lo he hastily disposed ill". Our presenl paper is necessarily a men? preparatory one, lo awaken (lie attention of our New Zealand readers lo Hie hilherlo unheeded sources of wealth an.l comfort with which their yeas and rivers abound; and lo Mifjycsl lo ihem the ijain lliat mi|,-!il be derived from the prosecution of a few successful lisherics. Il is (piite Hue that we have neither the hcrriu;;, tlu; cod, nor the in these seas ; still, there are numerous supplies of line and wholesuuie lis.li. More than one elVorl on a small scale has already been matte to cure and pack ihcse for foreign markets ; and if our readers will refer to our Shipping Lists lliev will ibid that sail fish, in limited (jiiaii'titii's is an existing article of export. We shall endeavour, in subsequent paper:;, to present lliem with a more enlarged view of the great commercial wealth which accrues lo Kuglatid from her lisherics. We hope to show the value of tin- supplies to cities of fresh lish forlhel'ood of their inhabitants; and when we point to Auckland nearly destitute of any such supplies, we hope wo may eventually incite our fellow labourers lo embark in a pursuit which lias never failed lo exercise the happiest inlluences over the fortunes of an intelligent maritime people.

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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 118, 30 June 1853, Page 3

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THE MAORI MESSENGER. Auckland, June 30, 1833. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 118, 30 June 1853, Page 3

THE MAORI MESSENGER. Auckland, June 30, 1833. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 118, 30 June 1853, Page 3

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