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work of setting up our school for fisher-folk in a build- 

 ing erected for the purpose in the Tanur yard, close 

 to the public road, and which also houses the hand-loom 

 for net-making obtained during the year from England. 

 The pupils are both boys and adults and are not merely 

 taught the usual three " R's," but receive instruction and 

 suggestions in technical and economic matters such as 

 those of curing, of co-operation and thrift, etc., and it is 

 found that the villagers readily come to listen ; the boys 

 are also available for labour in the yard when additional 

 hands are needed. The English hand-looru for net- 

 making was considerably damaged en route, but the 

 damages have been repaired, and it is hoped to work it 

 to some purpose during the current year ; this matter has 

 been placed entirely under the control of the Assistant 

 Director who initiated the idea from his knowledge of 

 the needs of the people in net-making and from seeing 

 these looms when in England in 1912. 



40. Considerable correspondence was held with the 

 Collectors of Malabar and South Canara regarding the 

 oil and guano factories which have so rapidly sprung up 

 since there was among manufacturers a natural tendency 

 to disregard or an ignorance of sanitary rules ; the Assist- 

 ant Director visited about 45 factories and f also visited 

 a number, with the result that a set of tentative rules, 

 liable to alteration on greater experience, were drawn up 

 and received the assent of one or both Collectors. 



A " China " net as at Cochin and live car have just 

 been put up by the Assistant Director at Beypore, but we 

 have yet to gain experience as to their working. 



41. The disposal of the produce of the TanOr yard 

 and Calicut cannery gave a great deal of work in the 

 calculation of costs, in the consideration of the best 

 methods of marketing, and in ascertaining public tastes. 

 Four jails wrote for supplies of dried fish, but Vellore 

 and Salem shortly dropped out ; Trichinopoly and Coim- 

 batore, however, continue to take supplies. A stall was 

 opened at Moore Market for the sale of canned and 

 cured goods, and has made known these products to a 

 section of the public ; it was found that curried sardines 

 were preferred by retail purchasers at the Moore Market 

 while wholesale buyers, usually Europeans, who deal 

 direct with the cannery, prefer plain (oil-less) sardines, 

 mackerel and prawns. A notable order for canned goods 

 was a large one recently made by the contractor of the 



