TRANSMISSION OF SALMON EGGS TO AUSTRALIA, ETC. 865 



Ko. 19. 



The Hon. J. A. B. Menzies to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary. 



Wyndham, 25f/i January, 1878. 

 Sm : I bare the honor to iDform you that Mr. Howard reports that he 

 has placed the following numbers of California salmon fry in the rivers 

 named : 



In the Oreti 35, 000 



In the Waipahi 10, 000 



In the Makarewa 18, 000 



Total 63, 000 



He retains for the present about 800 fry in the ponds. Mr. Howard 

 remarks that only 25,000 fry were available from the ova contained in 

 the second box he received, that box, as you may remember, having been 

 transshipped in Auckland, by mistake, to the Eotorua, whereby it reached 

 the ponds above a week later than the other box, the hatching of the 

 ova of which seems to have j)roduced 80 per cent, of fry. 



Mr. Howard also says " the young fish are exceedingly healthy and 

 strong, and the arrangements for the transport of the ova from America, 

 though simple, were almost perfect." 



Have you any intelligence of the dispatch of the Enghsh salmon ova 

 ordered ? 



I have, &c., 



J. A. E. MENZIES, 

 Chairman of Commissioners of Salmon Ponds. 



The Hon. the Colonial Secretary. 



No. 20. 



Tlie Hon. the Colonial Secretary to His Excellency the Governor. 



Wellington, 1st February, 1878. 



Ministers desire respectfully to inform his excellency the governor 

 that the half million salmon ova which arrived by the mail steamer from 

 San Francisco in November last have been successfully hatched and dis- 

 tributed to the different rivers of the colony, and that, by information that 

 has reached the government from various directions, it has been demon- 

 strated that owing to the extreme care with which the ova were packed 

 in America the very satisfactory result of about 95 -per cent, of the fish 

 has been obtained. 



In addition to the half million sent at the request of the government, 



an equal quantity has been sent to the various acclimatization societies 



in the colony, and this handsome gift of salmon ova has been made to 



the colony without charge, except cost of package and transit, by the 



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