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brandies, but onlj one or two. Entrants must be above 1 i years of 

 ag-e and have finished the upper primary or an equal course : a pre- 

 paratory general course for boys of 12 and upwards may be attached 

 to a fishing school but shuU not exceed two years, with a maximum 

 of 30 hours per week in morals, Japanese, arithmetic, geography, 

 histoj-y, science, drawing and gymnastics, with foreign languages and 

 singing optionally. 



A special course for single important subjects may be opened, and 

 students may also be admitted to study one or more subjects ociy ; 

 an advanced course not exceeding two years may also be started for 

 students who iiave passed the regular course. 



77. A deep sea course not exceeding three years may also be 

 opened ; in this, navigation, ship handling, catching, the outlines of 

 ship building, meteorology, oceanography, etc., or some of these 

 subjects, may be taught : for this course only students who have 

 passed the three years' fishing course may enter. Other articles 

 deal with the internal rules of the school, the number of teachers, the 

 provision of proper accommodation, and special stress is laid on the 

 necessity for all proper apparatus and the machines for practical work. 



78, Inspection notes of one school may be useful. The Otsu 

 school on the Pacific Coast is a primary institution maintained by the 

 ' town ' which is a large fishing village, where, in addition io fish 

 catching, fish is dried in the usual Japanese fashion (the odours 

 resemble those of the Madras West Coast) and iodine is made ; salt is 

 largely manufactured in villages near by ; hence there will be scope 

 for the school graduates who are already in demand. It was estab- 

 lished four years ago, has a five years' course of which the first two are 

 preparatory as the boys enter at 12 years' old from the primary school; 

 24 graduates have passed, of whom 10 went through the regular course 

 and 14 the special course only, and 130 boys are now studying. There 

 is also a special course for girls, of whom there are 14 (it will be 

 remembered that Japanese girls attend the primary schools compul- 

 sorily like the boys), who, besides a general teaching in fishing matters, 

 are specially trained in canning which in Japan is largely carried out 

 by females. Of the 24 graduates 7 have gone straight into a cannery 

 in a distant (Kyoto) district. Of the present students 15 are sons of 

 actual fishermen, some are sons of fish traders, some of agriculturists ; 

 all hope to get into the fishery business in one branch or the other. 

 There are eight teachers, of whom three are graduates of the Imperial 

 Fishery Institute ; the principal, an enthusiastic scientist, is not so 

 trained, but is a normal school man with special training. 



79. All three courses are taught. For catching^ the school has a 

 boat of ordinary type, and skilled fishermen are engaged to teach 

 the boys at sea ; an improved boat has been sanctioned but the 

 late 'affair' (war) has prevented the allotment of funds which is 



