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Director, had great pride in informing me that the greater part of 

 the cost, amounting to Kroner 200,000 (Rs. 1,50,000), has been met 

 by private subscriptions. The vessel is fitted with a motor engine 

 (of Swedish make) of 40 to 50 h.p., which also works successfully 

 both the big trawl winch and the anchor winch. One engineer 

 only is kept and Dr. Nordgaard mentions that the engine is so 

 simple and easily run that this solitary engineer is able to spend 

 a good deal of his time on deck and gives much help in carrying 

 on the scientific work ! 



VII.— THE NEW FISHERIES HEADQUARIERS TO BE 



BUILT IN BERGEN. 



The Administration of Fisheries together with the scientific 

 staff are lodged in a rented building in the heart of the residential 

 quarter of Bergen, not even on the sea front. The accommodation, 

 good and even palatial as compared with anything that Fisheries 

 have ever had in, Madras, has become wholly inadequate to meet 

 the rapidly growing requirements of the department, particularly 

 on the scientific and technical side. The Director accordingly 

 formulated proposals for the erection of a building by the State, 

 planned specifically to give adequate accommodation for all the 

 activities of the department, present and contemplated ; these 

 were submitted and approved by the National Fishery Council and 

 with this backing the Government acquiesced and set apart 

 Kr. 7,000 forpremia to architects for the best plans submitted. The 

 competition was keen, 2/ sets of plans being sent in, so many of 

 such high excellence that adjudication was found difficult. 



To Madras which has recognized that before long it will be 

 necessary similarly to take measures to give proper conveniences 

 to the local Fisheries Department if utter stagnation is to be 

 avoided, a study of these plans is most interesting for comparison 

 with those of the building designed locally. 



There will be three floors available for the Administrative 

 staff, free from any loss of space for the storage of bulky articles 

 such as stationery reserves, glassware, fishing apparatus and nets, 

 and the hundred and one things that are required from time to time 

 in fishery investigation both at sea and in the laboratory. All 

 these items find accommodation in the basement floor, half sunk 

 below the ground level. 



The ground plan is similar to that of the Madras design, a main 

 block with two wings, north and south. The main block, with the 



