AUCKLAND OYSTER INDUSTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 6 May 1907, Page 2

AUCKLAND OYSTER INDUSTRY.

Tor Prow Asx,c i.ition. Auckland, Mnv ">.

„ | di'i-'uL'i 1 ion (ti pi -?; i ivs uniton j up"ii 111'. 1 Mini ;;.'!' j'i.i (!i Satui* <biy, ihi v slati**l 'Jut ni H'lii-allv there ] u * ( ' n ' 110 oysters worMi picking on l?anj tfitoto. and very lew on .\b>lntapn. On , ilie other lian « r.nd I'onni in- , l.'.nds were iliiek with Mi -in. yet these* IntLor islands Inul luvn eUsed for hevea t years. Unless sonii'lhiii*; wore done, tiu: ( jysfojs now ready to pick would da*, niui ( in dying would retard the growth <d l!e . V»»»K«r II w.t:' d thai ta:» Auckland h.heries lie divided into four >i\rgv. section,, on;' of smli >-eeii».ns to be ilirown open -lnnually. II was slated thill unless V. ailieke were .>j>i n>d, tU* , iici_- ol oysters would lie probably l->s a :>a#, I nil if it wi-re opened bivalv-v, •ou'd be no'd at Ms, a lui?/, Tiu, Miuislcr. in reply,' staled tli-il, wnilst lie was anxious to further Mid oysin :iicii'*• < I jet t in every po.—.ii.if \, ~ it was also his duly to the colony losco '.MU; the I) 1 Is were nit ait il<ssly (ip pjeh-d. It did ln.t waiter lo him wiulr.v Mo ojd ;ot New N» uh Wales * i»i; -•iryhed ov n<d. Wlml he had 10 do wn* i If See lli'iL lie peoph ~r Xe.v Zealand »w:v supplier. i| t > wa.s in,or.,tod :>y Mr Aysou, Ciiicf Inspector of Fisheries j iliai. whilst the l.nls at Cabbage Bay and had been stripped oil' so It ro-k. iiie oysters on hard rock were ler» unpicked. Mr. Aysun did not favor open ],«.? Waiheke or 3\mm at the srnne time as othn beds, ns Ihey would be clipped clean in one season. If "Ponui ;Wid \Vaiheke were opened oysters wouM be (heap for one year a.' I <>u* the fia luwiiiv year He wnild consider the pro j jo.-al to divide the distriet iu-'o wlions. j t and would have a look at the beds dur f ( | nig the eiitibitif week.

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