Experiment

Us Surveys Pago Tu[?]

THE quantity of tuna caug] Samoan waters may be si to seasonal fluctuations This is the opinion of an obs for the US Fish and Wildlife vice, reporting on the first months’ operations of the Van ( tuna cannery at Pago Pago, A; can Samoa.

He says that, initially, i Japanese fishing boats and American freezer ships prot about 590 tons of tuna, one-f( albacore and the rest yellc Towards late March and . however, catches declined sh Only experience in year-r fishing, says the observer, wil termine the cause and extent o fluctuations.

The fishing fleet worked i contract to a Japanese com which sold the fish to the can he said, and although a quantity of fish was frozen shipped to California for can sufficient was available to give cannery its first full-scale v out. Numerous problems rems to be solved, but the feasibilil producing canned tuna in Ame; Samoa was demonstrated. The demand for tuna combined witl many obvious advantages tc fotmd in Samoa’s position, v ensure every effort being mac get the Pago Pago plant into st production.

No Luck In Nth. Austro

Few tuna and only small qi ities of live bait were foun waters north of Townsville, said P. D. Lorimer, skipper of the ing launch Fair Venture, after « pleting a 3,000-mile survey of Queensland and New South V coasts.

This did not mean there no tuna in northern waters survey could have been undert; at the wrong time of the yea; Mr. Lorimer was accompanies the 4-weeks survey by a fishi official, Mr. D. Kurth, from Council of Scientific and Indus Research Organisation. Mr. K later joined the owner of Venture, Mr. F. Fair, on a sir survey in the Princess Char Bay area, northern Queenslam H The Postmaster-General J. A, Marais) has returned to from leave in South Africa.

II Dr. V. W. T. McGusty, form Director of Medical Services: Fiji, and Mrs. McGusty are ing Suva. They are guests at 0 ernment House of their sor law, His Excellency the Gover and their daughter, Lady Garv