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The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1885.

Tee matter of local industries being established in our midst has been a subject which has long claimed our attention, and has from time to time been referred to in our columns. We have over and over again endeavored to impress upon Thames residents the absolute necessity of establishing works in the town and... district upon which the population may depend, outside the precarious life to. be sustained by the place from mining alone. We hare shown various means of utilizing material at hand, and labor in our midst with prospects of very satisfactory profits, yet we regret to see that no steps have been taken—at least none worthy of the name—in the direction of establishing those -factories and other works which it is >o easy to place on 11 satisfactory basis, owing to ao little capital being required, and so many per* sons—producers of the raw material— being in a position to substantially, and with profit to themselves, aid in rendering the inceptive steps towards their life firm and sound. The timber industry is one much neglected here, larger baulk exportations being made than should be. There is an abundance of labor in the distriot, and if for no other purpose than affording it a chance of employment, there would be wisdom in establishing—on aco operative principle even—a factory which would call it into use. There are surrounding us all the requisites for the establishment of a leather and boot factory, yet no steps are taken to utilise them. Nearly twelve months ago an effort was made to open up this manufacture, but sufficient life did not apparently exist in the desire to start it, and for some time past nothing has been heard of it. Another means of ensuring the existence of an industry likely to profitably employ labor is the catching and curing of fish, a thing which, in the past, has been, in a small way, very profitably carried on in our town. Some little time ago freezing machinery—on a limited scale—was erected, and quantities of fish over and above that required for local con* sumption were frozen by it and forwarded to Auckland, and some of it even sect as far as New South Wales ; this work, we regret to learn, has been discontinued, as far as the district is concerned, owing to the projectors being crippled for want of capital. In this work large waste is now of common occurrence, not half the quantity of fish secured being sold, the balance being simply thrown away. It would pay a smalt company, with a capital hardly worth mentioning, to follow up the industry, and utilise all the fisherman's spoil in one way, if not in another. There, are many uses to which fish, even unsaleable for purposes of human food, may be put. It would be a move in the right direction were an Industrial Committee formed at Thames for the purpose of ascertaining and reporting on the rarious foundations of permanent and productive industries which might be laid iv our midst, with a view to their early establishment.

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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5002, 23 January 1885, Page 2

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The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1885. Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5002, 23 January 1885, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1885. Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5002, 23 January 1885, Page 2

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