Tilapia Makes Tasty

Bait for Tuna

r:OTJGH most who have tasted the much publicised Tilapia pond-fish, recently introduced to the Pacific, have voted it a tasty table fish, it has also been found that it can be used to provide human food in an indirect way. For example, pigs can be fattened for the table on a substantially Tilapia diet.

And., according to a US Fish & Wildlife Service report, the fast breeding fish can also be used

suceessMiy as bait in the tuna industry. Experiments recently carried out in waters north of Oahu and Molokai, Hawaiian islands, using Tilapia for “chum ming purposes to lure the tuna within range of the artificial fishing lures, brought fair results during the trials. Many tuna caught contained Tilapia. Best size appeared to be three to four inches long. The Tilapia did, however, appear to have one undesirable trait, in that they were inclined to swim deep instead of remaining near the surface and attracting the tuna up from the deep.

The Hawaiian tuna industry suffers an acute shortage of readily accessible bait fish, so if Tilapia prove successful for this purpose it will substantially aid the tuna fishing industry.

H The marriage took place at the Baptist Mission, Baiyer River, New Guinea, on January 4, of Miss I.

Kind, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Cecil Kind, to Mr, lan Gruber.

Bonnor-Smith Wedding

At the Rabaul Church of England recently, Mr. Ray Bonnor was married to Miss Lorraine Smith. Photograph shows, left to right, Mr.

M. King (best man); Groom and bride; The Rev. Mr. Gribble; Mr, McMillan, who gave the bride away, and Mrs. McMillan.

Photo: C. H. Meen.

A group of senior [?]moan police officers [?]ken the day before [?]perintendent Fell re [?]rned to N.Z. and [?]perintendent Philipp [?]ok over command of [?]e Western Samoan [?]lice Force.

Standing (I to r): [?]t. Talitimu, N. Hel [?]soe (gaoler), Sgt. [?]palii, Sgt. Lankow.

Seated: Inspector [?]hmidt, Superintendent [?]ilipp, Superintendent [?]ll, P. Thompson [?]hief gaoler), Sub [?]spector Young.

R. F. Rankin.