862 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Francisco agents, advising shipping 11 boxes salmon ova for the Auck- 

 land Acclimatization Society, and inclosing press copy of a letter from 

 Professor Baird's deputy at Eedding, in which there fortunately hap- 

 pened to be a copy of the names of places to which the 10 boxes were to 

 be sent — identical with Dr. Hector's list of 28th July, 1877 — embodied 

 in the Parliamentary papers you sent to me (with one for the Victorian 

 Society). I then found that for some reason or other the United States 

 Fish Commissioners had not forwarded the Auckland and Can 

 bury orders. I at once telegraphed Captain McGillivray, of the Wanaki 

 steamship, to deliver the two boxes marked " Christchurch " to Nelson 

 and Greymouth. On the Gth I dispatched i^er Eotorua : 

 1 box to Napier, ] 



1 box to Wellington, i „^.^, „ . , 



-, , ^ r^i • X , \ y With 7 ice-boxes m reserve. 



1 box to Christchurch, \ 



1 box to Invercargill, \ 



Per Wanaka — 



1 box to Nelson (as above), "} 

 1 box to Greymouth (as above), i 



1 box to Dunedin, j 



1 box to Invercargill, ^ 



With 5 boxes ice in reserve. 



Leaving for Auckland ^ and -^ for Victoria Society (not included in 

 government order.) 



Having made every arrangement at great expense and much personal 

 inconvenience for the safe reception and proper dispersion of the full 

 quantity of 800,000 ova, I must confess to a little disappointment at be- 

 ing therefore rendered unable to stock the Auckland rivers to the num- 

 ber and extent I had intended. 



Since the arrival of the mail steamer on November 2, I have been 

 actively engaged in carrying out the work you intrusted to me, of pack- 

 ing and transshiiiping the ova to southern ports, and in i)lacing the 

 Auckland portions in the King country to the south, and in the Wairoa 

 Eiver and its tributaries to the north. 



From telegrams I have received, I am pleased to think that the work, 

 arduous though it has been, has not been in vain. 



Pray pardon the length of this letter, as I could not i)ermit any mis- 

 apprehension as to the proper disposal of the ova to exist in your mind 

 without endeavouring to remove it. 

 I have, i&c, 



J. C. FIETH, 

 President of the AucMand Acclimatization Society. 



G. S. Cooper, Esq., 



Under Secretary^ Wellington. 



