994 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Extract of letter addressed to the honorable the Colonial Secretary. 



February 21, 1877. 

 I also inclose a memorandum of the distribution of the fish from the 

 ponds ; and the Commissioners desire me to repeat the information con- 

 veyed in my telegram yesterday, that the hatching-boxes are clear and 

 ready for the reception of the whitefish ova mentioned in your letter of 

 the 20th November, 1876. 



J. MENZIES. 



MEMORANDUM. 



Mr. Howard reports that the distribution of fish from the Southland 

 ponds since last report, May, 1876, was as follows : 

 October, 1876. — Salmon fry hatched from ova received from 

 United Kingdom by S. S. Durham, placed in 

 Aparima Eiver 1, 500 



Calif ornian salmon fry. 



January and February, 1877. — Into affluents of Oreti Eiver, viz : 



Stag Creek 3, 600 



Winton Burn 1,200 



Irthing Eiver 8, 200 



And on 17th February, Mr. Howard reports that he had from 3,000 to 



4,000 fry still in the ponds, and would on 20th remove all but about 100, 



kept for purposes of observation, into the Irthing. 



Brown trout (ova). 



September, 1876.— To Wellington 1, 700 



Brown trout (fry). 



October, 1870.— To Waimatuku 500 



November, 1876. — To Makarewa 125 



To Morley 800 



To Holmes's Wash Creek 1,000 



To Otaupiri 1, 500 



January, 1877.— To Waikaka 250 



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Colonial Museum, Wellington, February 28, 1877. 



Sir : I have the honor to report the arrival of the second shipment of 



whitefish ova, and to inclose an extract from Professor Baird's letter 



on the subject. Before their arrival in Auckland arrangements had been 



made for supplying half a ton of ice, with the view of keeping the 



