OYSTERS FOR AUCKLAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 396, 3 July 1928, Page 12

OYSTERS FOR AUCKLAND

THIRTY MEN BUSY AT PICKING-GROUNDS SUPPLIES FOR JULY 11 How does the oyster re prod r kind? ;?o far the scientists hav« Vj. j unable to tell the world. They j come to some fairly tall hut six men with lons experience in world of shell-fish would still gw© different impressions, if not six. When the consumer begins, in a or so's time, to dispose of his sh&r© the contents of 400 sacks that coh*q tutes Auckland’s weekly consumption he will probably be little interested i* the forces that provided his meal. l all probability he will think little of tf* fact that the oyster he eats is one of twelve million or so that th* mother oyster spawned in the waters of the Bay of Islands, Kaipara. Great Bar. tier. Coromandel, or the Gulf tn ?t>f region of Waiheke, Ponui. or Mahtjrangi. He will just eat. and be thankful that the four years have elapsed since th* oyster was a small black speck on a piece of rock, looking much more a speck of soot than the makings of a "juicy bivalve.” Just at the present the Fisheries Department has 30 men spread over tie oyster grounds mentioned, and tn spit* of bad weather j£ is expected that ther* will be a full supply when the depot m Auckland commences to offer the season’s oysters on July 11.