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title conferred upon him by Her Majesty, which was 

 esteemed an honour by all the colonies. Mr. Sayer had 

 referred to the possibility of England having to go to 

 Newfoundland or Canada, or America, for some portion of 

 her fish supply. It had been his object throughout to 

 press the importance of protecting the fisheries of this 

 country, and he was glad to find that Mr. Sayer held the 

 view that England had, in an improper and wanton manner, 

 destroyed the fish round the coast. This had been brought 

 about by the avarice of the fishermen not being checked 

 by the Government. He would not dilate further upon 

 this topic, but he could not express too strongly his sense 

 of the want of some protection being afforded to the fish. 



The resolution was carried unanimously. 



Captain CURTiS, R.N., said he noticed that Newfound- 

 land was not a free trade colony, the whole of her revenue 

 being obtained from import duties. He wished, however, 

 to draw attention to the question of fish offal. Some 

 thirty or forty years ago his father anticipated that the 

 supply of guano would fail, and manufactured several tons 

 of fish manure by mixing the offal with charred peat. In 

 Newfoundland there was plenty of peat, and by mixing it 

 with the offal a very valuable manure might be formed. 

 He had lately become acquainted with a gentleman, Mr. 

 Johnson, who was making 200 tons of fish manure per 

 month, and getting from £S to ^11 per ton for it, the 

 works being carried on at Belvedere, below Woolwich, and 

 he hoped some of the Commissioners would take the 

 opportunity of visiting the works. There was no nuisance 

 whatever connected with the manufacture ; the offal and 

 cuttings of fish was put into tanks at Billingsgate, and 

 taken into barges and discharged into receptacles, where it 

 was disintegrated and dried by superheated system ; and 



