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An ideal site for the building has been obtained in the public 

 park at the seaward extremity of the peninsula of Nordnzes which 

 divides the two deep inlets that form the two harbours of the city. 

 Quite deep water is found at the foot of the rocks above which the 

 building will be erected. When built, it will be the first prominent 

 building seen by those who arrive at Bergen by sea, and the 

 citizens are to be congratulated upon their public-spirited action in 

 giving such a unique site over to this purpose; it is proof indeed, 

 if proof be needed of the high estimation in which this Government 

 department is held by the people at large. 



The Government have also been particularly generous. Owing 

 to certain considerations, not altogether financial, it was not 

 deemed desirable to begin construction during the war, and since 

 then other difficulties have arisen, causing postponement of the 

 plans. To facilitate therefore the eventual operations Government 

 have accorded the department the exceptional privilege of accumu- 

 lating the annual, sums voted by Parliament towards the cost of 

 the project and in this way funds for the building are gradually 

 accumulating, the total vote being spread over a number of years 

 instead of swelling one particular year with a heavy item of 

 extraordinary expenditure. It possesses the added advantage of 

 protecting the project from any sudden change of attitude on the 

 part of Parliament towards the project, a danger ever present in a 

 democratic county, where party Government prevails. Work is to 

 be begun at an early date. 



VIII.— FISHERY PUBLICATIONS. 



In Norway the rapid and wide dissemination of news of interest 

 to the fishing trades is accounted one of the most useful and indeed 

 essentially necessary duties of the Fishery Department and of the 

 leading Fishery Societies. An important branch of the former 

 concentrates attention upon the collection and editing of statistics 

 from home waters and of market reports from home and abroad. 

 To give satisfactory publicity to these, the department issues a 

 weekly trade paper, the Fiskeis Gang. It appears as a 12 to l6-page 

 journal, the page size measuring 12 inches by 9 inches. Four 

 pages are given over to advertisements. The regular contents 

 comprise, among other subjects, (l) a concise review of the course 

 of Norwegian fisheries during the preceding week, (2) telegrams 



