Torres St. Sardine
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Industry
WITH heaquarters on the Island of Douar, in Torres Straits, an Austra lian company has established a factory for exporting sardines to Java and to islands in the Dutch East Indies.
Mr. H. B. Fletcher, a representative of the Murray Island Fisheries, arrived in Melbourne from London in the steamer Moreton Bay in December on his way to Queensland. He told reporters that the sardine industry could be greatly extended.
Huge shoals of sardines, he said, were driven into shallow water by sharks, where they were netted by Torres Straits island ers in huge quantities. They were then treated with brine, sun-dried, and sold at from £20 to £30 a ton.