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on this coast with the objects which I have enumerated 

 above. Details for co-operative work will of course be 

 separately reported to Government for consideration 

 since expenditure will be necessary ; the subject is simply 

 mentioned here to show that the policy of co-operation 

 is possible and advisable, and will, if Government 

 approve, be a leading role of the experimental station, 

 especially in matters where public taste is a primary 

 consideration. 



40. This was largely the case in Japan ; in one of the 

 earliest stations the canning industry was developed, 

 neighbouring firms or persons were shown the products, 

 and the expert was, it would seem, lent to a private 

 firm which has now engaged him as manager for a large 

 canning business equal to 2,000,000 cans per annum. 

 Boats of a new class are built at or for the stations, and 

 manned by or lent to groups of fishermen ; I found 

 at one station that all the station boats were away with 

 station instructors but local (independent) crews at 

 Korea, etc., while the fishery schoo.ls take the lads and 

 train them in boats and in a school factory in all 

 branches of progress ; in one place the committee of 

 a Fishery Chamber desired permission to go to 

 sea on board the improved fishing boat of the experi- 

 mental station in order to acquire a practical knowledge 

 of its working (paragraph 120 of my not^) \ si sic in 

 Indis ! A somewhat similar method is found under the 

 Congested Districts Board operations in Donegal where 

 the Board builds or obtains large fishing boats for given 

 groups of fishermen and works them on the share system, 

 the fishermen, with one or two Board instructors, 

 operating the boat and selling their catches ; in this case, 

 however, the shares coming to the Board are credited to 

 the fishing syndicate who thus gradually pay for and 

 obtain the boat ; here also apprentices are trained both to 

 the catching, curing, coopering, and boat building busi- 

 ness ; in one place they have advanced capital to a boat 

 building firm of good standing in order to develop its 

 business in particular direction. It will be the effort of 

 the experimental station to enlist public interest and 

 co-operative effort in every form whether by public 

 fishing associations, by business co-operation and assist- 

 ance, by inviting inspection and by suggestion, by 

 itinerant schools or demonstrational lectures, by leaflets 



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