Small Tuna Ships Are
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Widely Scattered
THE five little ships of the South Seas Marine Products Com pany (formed by Mr. Harold Catty, in Fiji, as a tuna-fishing enterprise) have now been sold and distributed.
Iwo have gone to Indonesia, two to Ceylon, and one to California.
Fhey have lain idle in Fiji waters for the better part of two years.
American Rockefeller interests pro vided most of the considerable :apital assembled to start this new mterprise: and it had every promise )f success until it was found that, : or some still unknown reason, the ;una of the Fiji area cannot be :aught by the tuna-catching methods ;mployed elsewhere.
Negotiations for the purchase of he fleet by Dutch New Guinea nterests, reported some months ago, widently broke down.
It was announced in March that i tuna-ship was being built in Holland for the Dutch New Guinea jovernment.
Mr. G. H. W. Griffen, Works De triment Overseer, Fiji, was spend ng leave in Australia in April.