Housewives' Hero
Mr. George Dawson is having the shining armour of a housewives' hero pressed upon him by events. This is quaint apparel for a hard-headed businessman who has said himself quite frankly that he has gone into the fish businss with one purpose—to make a profit. Not that it embarrasses him so much as it does the trawler owners who are determined to keep Icelandic fish out of the country until the dispute over i Iceland's extension of its fishery limits is settled. It should not be long now before Mr. Dawson's first Icelandic trawler- load is on ice at Grnitsby. But the Federation of British Trawler Officers is now going to ask the trawler owners to sell no fish to any merchants who purchase or handle it. What• ever the rights and wrongs of the dispute between the British industry and the Icelandic Government, the housewife here has a fair idea that fish ought to be cheaper. If Mr. Dawson'! catches stay on ice, he may even assume the glory of a martyr
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