Seasonal Shut-Down.
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From Our Own Correspondent.
Thursday Is., Jan. 28.
THE Murray Island Fisheries Com pany, engaged in the development of the sardine industry at the head of the Barrier Reef, has temporarily closed down, during the nor’-west season. The European staff has returned to Bris bane, with the exception of Mr. G.
Bright, who is in charge of the Com pany’s auxiliary ship “Troubadour.”
It is stated that a fall in the price of the product which the company has been working to place upon the market, combined with other reasons, are re sponsible for the temporary cessation.
At this season of the year there is a shortage of fish, the sardine shoals ap parently migrating to other regions, or, what is more probably the case, staying at home for three months or so, since it is now practically certain that the big shoals are visitors only and that Murray Island is not their real habitat, but this particular difficulty could be got over by providing for excess requirements dur ing the other nine months of the year. because Malaita carries about half the population of the entire Group.
Dr. Maybury is on his way to England via New Zealand. Two nurses of the Mission also returned by the "Mataram,”
Sister Y. A. Dawes being ill and Sister B. Guylee attending her.