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enterprise is usually lacking in capital and in organiza- 

 tion, and fails the moment a demand for continuous 

 supplies arises. Hence I consider that the Government 

 department should take up the matter in a business 

 fashion, alvva)s with the proviso that it will relinquish 

 commercial work when private enterprise serioitsly enters 

 on it. I may remind Government that in Japan it was 

 the Government experimental fishery stations which 

 developed the large modern fishing industries, especially 

 those of canning, modern curing, oil and guano, etc., by 

 taking up the several branches industrially and commer- 

 cially, and entering the market as serious producers 

 (see my note on Japanese Fisheries) ; also that at the 

 Industrial Conference at Ootacamund several years ago, 

 " Fisheries " were expressly excluded from the category 

 of industries in which the intervention of Government 

 was deprecated ; in " fisheries " a free hand was willingly 

 conceded to Government, just because private enter- 

 prise was unlikely to take the matter up till Government 

 had demonstrated profitable possibilities. 



I now propose to ask the sanction of Government 

 (i) for new plant proper for industrial work, if only as a 

 model or type for future potential manufacturers ; (2) to 

 put the resulting products on the market for pioneering- 

 purposes only. 



6. New plant needed f 01^ cei'tain branches of work. — - 

 I will consider in detail several of the processes and 

 products and indicate the new plant wdiich I consider 

 immediately necessary, e.g. — 



(i) Canning. 



(2) Light curing. 



(3) Pickling. 



(4) Fresh fish supply. 



(5) Net making. 



^. Canning. — This promises to be one of our earliest 

 and easiest successes though our latest experiment, just 

 because the goods can be easily and openly displayed as 

 new and attractive products, readily saleable everywhere 

 and to all, and at cheap rates. The outlay on plant for 

 the production of really attractive goods must be some- 

 what large, but should recoup itself at once, and the 

 plant would be readily saleable to a purchaser. 



One of my chief and most costly difficulties at Calicut 

 has been trustworthy soldering, especially where goods 

 are preserved otherwise than in oil. Moreover our tins, 

 though solid and good, are not so attractive as the 



