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by the King. The Board is to consist of three members and three 

 deputies. Two of the members and their deputies are to be elected 

 by the Storthing and the others by the King. The Director of 

 Fisheries may be called in as an advisory member of the Board. 



I was informed by the Director of Fisheries that the Bank is 

 not likely to commence operations before 1921, as it has, up to 

 the present, been found impossible to secure suitable premises in 

 Bergen. 



IV.-TECHNICAL EDUCATION. 



At the present time the only branches of education provided by 

 the Department of Fisheries are strictly practical and technical- 

 The two most important do not centre round the technique of 

 fishing methods as we should expect. They aim at making the 

 inshore fisherman better fitted to handle his boat successfully and 

 to the best advantage ; this in practice widens his field of opera- 

 tions as it gives him confidence in himself and his boat to operate 

 at greater distances from port; his radius of action is extended. 

 To effect this object, the department has initiated a scheme for 

 the instruction of fishermen in the two related subjects of naviga- 

 tion and marine-motor management. 



Both of these have till now been taught in the simplest of ways. 

 No expensive buildings were necessary, or desirable, in view of 

 the fact that the coast line measures not less than 1,500 miles, with 

 fishing towns and villages scattered along the whole length. Few 

 of the fishermen could be expected to attend if only one or two 

 or even four schools were established as even the nearest would 

 usually be at a long distance from their home ; the only alternative 

 was to send the schools to the fishermen and this has been 

 accomplished by the employment of perambulating instructors. 

 All the teachers of navigation and motor technique are itinerant; 

 a programme of work is mapped out for them, care being taken 

 to arrange the time to be spent at each particular centre with 

 due regard to the local seasonal fishing requirements, the best 

 period for the purpose being obviously that when the fishermen's 

 attention is not absorbed in the prosecution of their calling. 



The course in navigation is of an elementary nature compared 

 with that provided for men who are destined to be navigating 

 officers in the mercantile marine. In Norway the latter subject is 

 in charge of a special officer, termed Director of Naval Instruction, 



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