preparation of twine and cotton for making nets, net mending. 

 Application has been made to the Educational de-partment to have this 

 school recognized as a grant-in aid institution. Some of the pupils 

 have been engaged occasionally in the curing shed to assist in curing 

 operations, and also sent out in the cance carrier to buy fish in the 

 sea for our yard. In order to teach them thrift — the want of which 

 is the cause of everlasting indebtedness of the fishing community all 

 along the coast, pupils of this school are being persuaded to make 

 savings bank deposits in the local post office, and several boys above 

 sixteen years of age have already opened such accounts." 



The Government curing yard within which the school 

 is situated, is often suddenly in need of extra hands 

 when large quantities of sardines, prawns, etc., have to 

 be dealt with, and the idea is that the boys shall work 

 partly in the yard and partly in the school, and thus be 

 doubly trained. Pictures of fisheries and fishery subjects 

 are being utilized, and this method of visual instruction 

 is about to be developed by means of further pictures 

 and an optical lantern ; this will also attract adults. 



T,6. {71) Fishery steamer. — The plans for this vessel 

 were repeatedly discussed during the year both by a 

 committee appointed by Government ad hoe and which 

 included Commander Huddleston (Presidency Port 

 Officer), and otherwise. The steamer is intended to be 

 a full power trawler fitted both for trawling, drifting, and 

 lining, with accommodation forward, possibly after the 

 fashion of modern " destroyers," for a scientific and 

 controlling staff and their work. She wmII also have a 

 refrigerating plant and everything needed for thoroughly 

 practical work in order that the question, at present 

 unanswered, as to the fishery possibilities of the deep 

 sea (that is, for this Presidency, everything outside 10 

 or 12 fathoms), may be fully examined and answered. 

 In view of the very large and direct fishery work under- 

 taken by various Colonial Governments, this is but a 

 modest proposal. The matter has recently been referred 

 to by Government to the India Office for consideration 

 of the best plans and for an estimate of cost. 



2,"]. (0) N'ew Marine aqziarinvi and Biological 

 station. — The plans were under the consideration of 

 the Government Architect, and it is understood that 

 they are in temporary abeyance pending the question 

 of the architecture of future buildings on the Madras 

 Marina. I need hardly again urge the importance of this 



