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receiving a course of instruction in the latter subject. In 

 the coming year it is intended to enlarge these special 

 industrial trainings by the addition of more subjects such 

 as fruit-growing, poultry-management, dairying, etc. It 

 is hoped that these short courses will assist in reviving 

 several old industries and promoting new ones which may 

 profitably be worked as cottage industries. 



6. Publications. — Much assistance has been given by the 

 senior members of the staff in the preparation of publica- 

 tions. Special mention should be made of Dr. Leather 

 who has had charge of the photographic department, of 

 Mr. Maxwell-Lefroy who supervised the passing through 

 the press of all the illustrations connected with publica- 

 tions, until he handed over the work to Mr. Hewlett, and of 

 the latter gentleman who, during the last year, has not 

 only been responsible for the preparation and publication 

 of illustrations, but has also assisted much in seeing the 

 printed matter through the press. 



7. Library. — The library contains over 6,000 volumes. 

 The transfer of the books from the old building to the new, 

 their arrangement and cataloguing have taken up a good 

 deal of thought and time, and I am greatly indebted for the 

 assistance that has been given in these matters by Dr. E. J. 

 Butler, Mr. H. Maxwell-Lefroy and Mr. A. Howard. A 

 new catalogue, revised and corrected up to 31st December 

 1908, is in the press. 



8. General Health of the Station. — The general health 

 of the station has been good. There was an outbreak of 

 chicken-pox and acute ophthalmia amongst the inenial 

 establishment in April 1908. In March 1909, there were 

 four cases of confluent small-pox among the subordinate 

 staff; all recovered, and by prompt disinfection and isola- 

 tion further spread of the disease was stopped. In the 

 hospital, relief was given to 5,716 cases of whom 190 wc^re 

 indoor patients. The number of cases treated amongst 

 European otficials and their families was 226. The opera- 

 tions performed numbered 171 of which 14 were major. 



