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The cost of an inspection boat is not included, since 

 it is not known whether she will be sanctioned or her 

 precise cost if sanctioned. 



74. To the above capital cost of Rs. 17,500 for plant 

 must be added running cost, viz., establishment, oil for 

 engine, salt, wear and tear of nets, a little wood fuel 

 for dryers and smoke house, the upkeep of the small 

 petrol dinghy, and so forth. 



Pience the running cost of the Experimental Station 

 for the current year, exclusive of the inspection boat and 

 of the supervising staff, should be about Rs. 6,000 plus 

 a share of the cost of the " Margarita," and for this and 

 for the capital cost (Rs. 17,500) sanction is requested. 

 Further sanctions, e.g., for the inspection boat, canning 

 and, perhaps, refrigerating plant, will be subsequently 

 requested. The running cost of two Japanese stations 

 that I visited was Rs. 27,385 and Rs. 14,122 respect- 

 ively for 1905 ; in neither case was there any power 

 boat, but both had canning plants and one a cultural 

 branch. 



75. Resume. — An abstract of the above letter is as 

 follows ; postulating that abundant, cheap, and whole- 

 some fish food for the masses is the object aimed at, it 

 advocates deep sea fishing not by means of steam 

 trawlers or expensive modern plant but by sailing boats 

 of moderate size, large enough to go far to sea, to use 

 better catching plant, to treat the fish hygienically at sea 

 or to keep them alive in wells, chests, or cars, and yet to 

 be within the purchasing power of individuals or small 

 groups ; small power-boats as carriers to ensure the 

 delivery of live or sound fish at shore are also advocated 

 and even the use of auxiliary power — probably in the 

 shaoe q{ kerosine eng^ines — for catchingr boats is suoorested 

 in special cases, as to supply a fresh fish market, a 

 canning factory, etc These will be the objects kept in 

 view in the experiments conducted at sea. On shore the 

 treatment of the fish by improved preservative methods, 

 including the use of preservatives new to Indian industry, 

 thnu2;h not new elsewhere, and of processes not at 

 present practised such as pickling, smoking, etc., will be 

 the subject of varied and continuous experiment. In all 

 the above matters the interest and co-operation of the 

 public will be invoked, especially that of firms and 



