NEW ZEALAND FISHERIES.
Svuxey. February 14. Judge Oliver, who visited N.Z, recently, enquiring iutotlie fisheries, on behalf of New South Wales fisheries Commission, considers that despite tlio plenitude lish is niireasonably dear in Auckland and Wellington which he accounts for by the fact, that as customs duties of from 25 to 30 per cent giyes the tone to nearly everything, so the fisherman raise the prices 25 per cent. He also cousiders that Napier is the best trawling ground in New Zealand. He was not able to get much information, because the fish were got so easily, that the industry, in the proper sense of the word, would never be developed. As the outcome of bis investigation it would,be thought bo an absolute wasto of money to attempt to stock Now South Wales rivers with salmon, but if big salmonoid are wanted, brown trout were (*■*o prolificinNew Zealand astosupply the want.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4942, 15 February 1895, Page 3
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151NEW ZEALAND FISHERIES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4942, 15 February 1895, Page 3
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