THE FISHING INDUSTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 258, 30 March 1914, Page 5

THE FISHING INDUSTRY.

IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS. S9 By TeK-grajih—Press Association. > "•% Duiedin, Last Night. - 3 A lucMini' of the Otajf<» luaneh of § the Fishermen's Society of New.Zealand '-aj was held at Port Chalmers on Friday \M evening, to el!.-, itss, with Mr G. M. Thorn- ■ vjj on, M.P., and Mr Anderson, curator of "31 t!i- Portobello marine hatchery, mcthodl -'4j of improving (he conditions under which ' *8 fishermen work, and generally of fur- .-.9 thcring the industry. Mr Thomson aaiA .-"iffl tliat lie had asked the Government t* '.ls Siant to those cngntred in the Ashing M industry, assistance similar to that ,- |j Riven to settlers on the land, and that. *M the Jlon. V. M. H. Fisher had under- v : jS| taken to develop the scheme adopted by*i«jj the Scotch aml Irish Fishery Hoards fof s "iM advances to fishermen. lie al«o «Ug- 111 jgested that the Government TnatirAlM* X Department might he asked to work out M a scheme of marine insurance on tho *j boats, which would materially nsskt Uie /« tMiormcn in their finance. He ahm W- ■' \J ferrcd to tlie possibility of exporting to n Britain certain kinds of fish which were . ,| either unsaleable here, such as skate, or ' £ fish which were often very abundant . * Tn the course of discussion, it was stated .J that fishermen now received on the 1 average onlv lis in the £ or »S per ; * cent. «.f the gross value of to > ?<>«. Tt was decided to write to the Minister ,| of Marine, asking him to give effort to -J the f ingestions made concerning the a- • s vanccs and insurance, and also to oh- j tain, throujrh the High Comm.*sioneX, | information as to ft P°s 9lbl V n\J« I local fish in the Home Country Tt WW J also urged that effort. ahouW ' be m*d« d to R et the Commonwealth (imwrt M to remove the import dut- on fw* « fish going to Australia. A