Pearling Industry.
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Prospects of Revival in Pearling Industry.
MR. A. F. PLOWMAN, who returned to Sydney by the steamer “Changte” from Thursday Island, on July 10, in an interview stated that pearlers be lieved that there would be an early re vival in the industry.
There had already been an improve ment, he said, owing to the sale of mother-of-pearl shell on the New York market. There was at present an ex tensive selling campaign in the United States, and it was anticipated that this year’s output would exceed that of 1931.
Disturbances in China had caused a slump in trepang.