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Mr. White: It would seem to be more economical than running 

 the reduction works at a loss. 



Mr. Feilding : It would pollute the waters. 



Prof. Prince : A good many hundred tons of offal are thrown in 

 now and a few more would not hurt. 



Mr. Cowie : Was it the idea when the works were started to dem- 

 onstrate that they could be made to pay ? 



Proe. Prince: The people who supplied the machinery laid great 

 stress on that. 



Dr. Jones : I suppose there might be some difficulty when paying 

 a bounty to the fishermen, in keeping an account of the number they 

 had killed. 



Proe. Prince : That is one trouble. I suggested that the tail might 

 be kept as you cannot imitate it. We gave a bounty on the killing 

 of seals and the nose of the seal was to be considered a proof of lulling 

 but we found that noses were ingeniously manufactured. 



Dr. Jones : The same thing used to be true of wolves. 



