Rarotonga's Fish Glut
p. 56 · Read in the full issue
Sends Prices Down
IARGE schools of tuna were migrating past Rarotonga’s shores in early January, keep ing the fishermen busy, and caus ing an unusual glut on a normally fish-starved market.
On January 3, over 80 tuna were brought ashore; four days later, 120 were caught; and over 200 large tuna and a 7-ft swordfish were landed on January 8.
The normal price of a medium sized tuna sold on the beach is £l, and a few days before the big catches started the price had soared to £3. After the catch of 200, the fish were offering for 8/- each, and for the first time in many months no buyers lined the shore.—WHP.
U “Scientific Achievement in Papua and New Guinea” was the subject of a lecture which well known geologist, Mr. G. A. V.
Stanley, delivered at the meeting of the Australian and New Zealand
Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) which was held at Dunedin, New Zealand, early in the new year. t A radio net-work which will be of great service to the country centres in Noumea, New Caledonia,
is being built up by the Gendarmeru service. Already nine sets havi been installed between headquarter! and country centres and are work' ing satisfactorily. The net-worl should be of great advantage during the “wet,” when storms play havo< with telephone lines.