Tongan Tuna-Men Will Learn How In Japan
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Pince Tungi, Tongas Prime Minister, said in Suva in Sep tember that with the acquisition of the new tuna long-liner from Japan this year, it was Tonga’s intention to give some of its young men a thorough training in fishery work in one of Japan’s fishery universities.
Japan was the acknowledged leader in this field, and there was provision for the training of a quota of foreigners through the Japanese Society for Economic Co-operation
in Asia. Students of about a dozen nationalities were at present taking: advantage of these facilities.
Prince Tungi said that it was the intention that the young Tongan oceanic fishing industry would be. firmly based on Tongan manpower, and that full use would be made of Japanese know-how in the early stages. A Japanese fishing master was already in the government’s employ.