For Tonga
p. 16 · Read in the full issue
Two New Industries
From Our Own Correspondent
Nuku’Alofa, July 22.
mwo new projects, one a juice-extract- X ing station and the other a shark fishing depot, which promise econ omic benefits to Tongans, were estab -1 shed in the Kingdom recently by two New Zealand companies. The former is s t Vava’u where the majority of the Kingdom’s oranges grow, and the fishery i t Ha’apai.
There are bright prospects for these new industries. The extracting station is expected to absorb the enormous sur plus of the annual orange crop which used to fall to waste on the ground for lack of export facilities.
On its first two days fishing the depot’s launch caught over fifty full-sized sharks.
Tongan fishermen are also getting their equipment ready for the shark fishing season.