A NEGLECTED INDUSTRY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 25, 30 January 1915, Page 4

A NEGLECTED INDUSTRY.

While both the dairy industry and the fruit industry have been created largely by the aid of the State, there is in the waters round the shores of New Zealand a source of wealth and a field of industry, hitherto neglected. The fishing industry, which is capable of being made one of the prime industries of this country, struggles on still in a haphazard way (says Saturday's Wellington Post), and not onjy iare its possibilities not utilised, but there is even a great waste of the fish caught. The recent fate of a consignment of fish from Kaikoura, which arrived in Wellington in such a condition that it had to be sent to the destructor, brings the problem home in these days when the cost of living is rapidly rising, and may rise to a degree not foreseen by people at the present time. All the necessaries of life, with Europe at war, must become more and more costly, and it becomes higldy essential, if serious trouble is to be avoided, to find alternative supplies of food, or at any rate to make better use of those Ave have already.