XII.-CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO THE EXPORTATION OF 

 FISHES AND FISH-HATCHING APPARATUS TO NEW ZEALAND, 

 GERMANY, ETC. 



A— THE SHIPMENTS MADE IN 1875 TO NEW ZEALAND. 



San Francisco, August 21, 1875. 

 Dear Sir : Would you be so kind as to furnish tlie Province of New 

 Zealand with 50,000 impregnated salmon ova from the McCloud River 

 fishery for transportation per steamer? 

 Yours, respectfully, 



CHAS. KAEDING. 

 Hon. Spencer F. Baird, 



United States Fish Commissioner, Washington, D. C. 



The following details refer to the distribution of and progress made 

 with the California salmon eggs sent to New Zealand from the United 

 States salmon hatchery establishment in 1875, and will be found ex- 

 ceedingly interesting. 



distribution of the salmon ova. 



To the Editor of the Herald ; 



Sir: Many persons having asked me to publish an account of the re- 

 sults of my expedition to place California salmon ova in the rivers of the 

 Tham(>s and Waikato country, on behalf of the Auckland Acclimatization 

 Society, I forward you a copy of a letter I have addressed to a sporting 

 friend of mine in England. I hope your readers will be good enough to 

 excuse the somewhat familiar style of the communication, as I have 

 not leisure to write an account perhaps more suitable for a newspaper. 



I am, &c., 



J. C. FIRTH. 

 Auckland, November 19, 1875. 



My Dear C : Let me give you a rough sketch of an expedition I 



have just made to place salmon ova in some of the headwaters of four 

 of our chief rivers in this part of New Zealand. You will perhaps be 

 more interested when I tell you that in this colony there is a remarkable 

 absence of plants, animals, or fish natural to the country suitable for the 

 food of man. To remedy this deficiency in some measure, we started 

 some years ago an Acclimatization Society, whose object is to iutro- 



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