8 MADRAS FISHERIES BULLETIN VOL. XIV, 



Kr. 2,991,175, bringing the final figure to Kr. 3,028,605, a sum much 

 larger than in the years before the war when half a million kroner 

 was considered sufficient. This sum contains, however, an extra- 

 ordinary item of Kr. 1,000,000 (say £50,000), as the year's contribu- 

 tion towards the cost of construction of the new administration 

 buildings at Bergen. (This amount I may mention is not to lapse 

 if unexpended in whole or in part. By a special arrangement with 

 the treasury it is to be put aside and employed as and when 

 required. The building will cost much more than this, and it is 

 intended in this way to spread the sum required over the next two 

 or three years.) 



Taking the present value of the kroner as 20 to the sovereign 

 (normally the exchange in pre-war days was about 18), the budget 

 total amounts to over £150,000 (say Rs. 22^ lakhs\ a large sum 

 for a small country like Norway with a population of barely 

 2^2 millions. 



A study of the main heads contained in the budget as finally 

 sanctioned by Parliament is perhaps the best possible way of 

 arriving at a clear understanding of the far-reaching and diverse 

 lines of work carried on by the department and of gauging their 

 relative importance. At present I have not the details of the 

 estimates for 1921-22 which amount to rather more than double 

 those for 1920 21. Hence I must give those for the latter year. 

 These may be summarized as follows : — 



Approximately 



KR. RS. 



1. Administration and scientific services, 



including the cost of the weekly paper 

 Fiske/s Gafig, published by the Depart- 

 ment ... ... ... ... ... 163,250 1,22,400 



2. Upkeep of the investigation steamer 



Michael Sara ... ... ... ... 12,900 9,700 



3. Subsidy to the " Norwegian Fishery 



News " {Norsk Fiskeritidende) pub- 

 lished i)y the Norwegian Fisheries 

 Society Bergen ... ... .,, 11,000 <'^,25o 



4. Cost of the Annual Reports and oilier 



departmental publications .. ... 10,000 7 500 



5 and 6. Salaries and expenses of five fishery 

 inspectors and two agents in foreign 

 countries (England and Gertuany) ... 55.700 41, '"^oo 



