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homestead, at the foot of Roughridge. The oven must have been pretty 
old, as it was covered by about a foot of silt, and the bone in question was 
amongst a quantity of moa bones, fragments of moa egg-shell, and chert 
flakes. This interesting relic is now in the Colonial Museum at Wellington. 
In conclusion, let me add that I have now before me an old note-book 
. containing a record of the dogs killed by our party in our pioneer days. 
The entries were made at the time. In all we destroyed fifty-two, thirty-one 
of which were males and twenty-one females. The first was killed at 
Swinburn on the 28th September, 1858, the last on the banks of the Upper 
Taieri on the 10th December, 1860. By far the greater number were killed 
on the Roughridge side of the plains. 
Art. XLIV.—The Dunedin Fish Supply. By P. Tuomson. 
(Read before the Otago Institute, Tth August, 1877.] 
Ix compliance with the request of the president and members of the Society, 
when I read the former paper on the subject last August, I now lay before 
you the result of my observations for the year ending 81st July last. I 
may state that my information was obtained in the same way as previously, 
by taking notes of the various fishes exposed for sale in town, in boats at 
the jetties, enquiries at Port Chalmers, etc. 
The local fishing trade may be represented as follows :—During the 
year eight boats, employing twenty-four men, have been employed in the 
fishing outside the Heads ; while twelve boats, employing twenty-four men, 
have been engaged in the seine fishing in Otago harbour and the adjoining 
inlets. This is independent of Stewart Island, where a number of cutters 
are engaged in the trade. 
The supply has been pretty steady all through the year, though 
occasionally, when a term, more or less long, of stormy weather occurred, 
a scarcity would be felt. The Southland steamers often fetch to Dunedin a 
few boxes of fish, mostly blue cod, trumpeter, and moki, which abound in the 
bays of Stewart Island. In January last three new boats left this port for 
the trade there ; and only the other day a fine new boat of fourteen tons was 
launched at Port Chalmers for the prosecution of the outside fishing trade. 
The complaint of small fish has been made again and again. This is 
particularly the case with flounders, which are brought to market of a 
ridiculously small size. Very juvenile red cod are frequently caught by the 
seiners in large quantities. Some regulation as to the size of fish exposed 
for sale ought to be speedily made, in order to prevent their. complete 
extermination. All under a certain size, on being caught, should be 
