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on ligHt rails so tliat they can be loaded outside and drawn quickly in 

 or out of the closets. 



68. The refrigerating plant is very complete ; a 20-H. P. engine 

 drives a Linde ammonia machine in which brine, cooled in the usual 

 way, passes through pipes first through a room kept merely cool, and 

 thence into the cold storage rooms the walls of which are covered by 

 a ramification of pipes holding hundreds of gallons of brine ; there 

 are 4 cold rooms each of several thousand cubic feet. This brine 

 system has the great advantage that in case of a breakdown the great 

 volume of cold brine in the pipes will keep the rooms cold for some 

 hours. 



67. The large dock opens on to the river estuary by a lock gate : 

 the schooner was away on a fishing cruise but there were several other 

 boats in which the students are instructed. Practical rigging, sail 

 and net making are taught, and the students were at work on all these 

 branches ; barrel-making seems to be omitted, possibly because it 

 has attained such perfection in Japan or because barrelled fish are not 

 yet much in vogue ; in India it would be a necessary addition. 



68. There are two Chinese students at work and it was said in 

 reply to questions, that there would be no difficulty about admitting 

 Indian students if of proper educational attainments ; nationality is 

 not regarded ; possibly this is partly due to the fact noted above, 

 that enough Japanese of proper acquirements are not always available. 

 Jf students of the proper stuff were selected in Madras and sent to 

 Japan they would be ready for employment three or four years hence, 

 provided that the Japanese authorities .would be willing to receive 

 them.* 



69. The heavy annual cost of the Institute is defrayed entirely from 

 Imperial funds. 



70. The Odawara practical cannery is many miles distant at an 

 excellent fishing locality, but is only opened ou the 10th July which 

 is the beginning of the summer vacation so that no students were at 

 work when I visited it. The factory deals with bonito, tunny, shark, 

 mackerel, and sardine ; bonito in its dried form is an absolutely uni- 

 versal food; pounded shark served in broth, etc., is consumed in vast 



* Whether it is advisable to send the students is a different matter ; obviously in a 

 school of this sort and with students of very moderate educational acquirements, the 

 whole tuition will be in Japanese, and, in fact, very little English is known there, 

 Professor Matsubara's European language being German. On the other hand book 

 tuition has a subordinate place, and a student after at least six months' steady work in 

 Japan at nothing but Japanese, might take a place in the school and would soon follow 

 the work especially as so much of it is practical. But before men are sent, the Japanese 

 authorities should be communicated with in view to know whether they will be received ; 

 the young men appropriate to such a training and such a business would also have to be 

 selected with much care. 



