FIJI-NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITION 185 
beautiful lichens along the way and also encountered a wallaby, 
or kangaroo, that allowed us to approach near enough to secure 
his photograph. From the top of the mountain we had a superb 
view of the gulf, harbor, adjacent islands and the city of Auckland 
with its suburbs. 
After descending from the mountain we again took to the launch 
and visited the municipal quarries on another part of the island. 
These are quite extensive and yield immense quantities of rock for 
break-waters in the harbor and ‘‘metal’’ for roads. The larger 
rocks are blasted out, placed on large lighters by heavy eranes and 
then taken to the break-water. The smaller fragments are run 
through a crusher near the shore and used in road making. 
It was low tide and collecting was good along the rocky shore 
where numerous pot-holes had been hollowed out of the scoria by 
the action of the waves. A number of specimens of anemones, 
mollusks, and starfish were secured. 
On the way back we visited the big dry-dock where the ‘‘Rona,”’ 
whose performance in trying to buck into a light-house has al- 
ready been recorded, was undergoing repair. She was an 8000- 
ton steel steamer and her fore-foot was crumpled up for a distance 
of about fifteen feet. She had struck another rock on being 
hauled off, which resulted in still greater damage to her bottom, 
below the engines, a bad place to reach in making repairs. We 
saw the machine shops connected with the dry-dock, where there 
are large lathes for turning out great guns, rollers for bending 
steel plates and many other powerful machines; there were pumps 
for emptying the dry-dock at the rate of 3,000,000 gallons per 
hour. 
The next day I went with a letter of introduction from Mr. 
Griffin to Mr. Deighton, Manager of the Municipal Council’s Fish 
Market. This is an interesting experiment in municipal owner- 
ship, designed to bring down the price of fish, which was said to 
have been controlled by a private monopoly which maintained 
higher prices than the city fathers thought justified. I under- 
stand that this objective has been achieved. 
My object was to find a way to do something along the line of 
collecting marine invertebrates, my special job, in spite of the 
winter season. I thought that the captains of the New Zealand 
trawlers owned by the the Municipal Council’s Fish Market might 
be induced to pick out and save the invertebrate material that 
came up in the trawls and which would otherwise be dumped 
