Knows Her Fish

NZ Truth, Issue 1184, 9 August 1928, Page 6

Knows Her Fish

NO second In command, no subordinate to an autocratic Sherlock

Holmes is Mrs. Ruby Watson, :of Totorangi, Auckland district, beautiful t ly placed by the sea. In what she knows and understands, she.is fitted to lead— and does. • V s * ■: Her love of art and literature, wellknown m v the penwomah's club, of which she is a member, does riot blind anyone to the fact that for sbme.'years Mrs. Watson's real interests have been m the' fishing: trouble of Hauraki.Gulf. She. wishes to abolish seine net and other kinds of . fishing which, she is convinced, are depleting the innocent fish, arid incidentally encouraging sharks, who have to come nearer" inland m search of the scarce food. . "I am a Yorkshire woman*" she says, "and we know never to ;give m.". Many are whispering, that it is a pity a; certain political party are somewhat anti-feminist, for Mrs. Watson was in-, cline'd towards their ideas,' arid she has the will and power to do much 'good.