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The following article from the Field of 

 January 26, 1878, goes far to explain how 

 matters were managed — 



" The efforts made within the last fifteen 

 years to acclimatise salmon in the Austra- 

 lasian colonies have now become of world- 

 wide interest ; and, while the colonists have 

 set before themselves a very tangible 

 material object, naturalists have been 

 anxious for its realization on scientific 

 grounds. The colonial officials charged 

 with the direction of affairs after the ova 

 have been delivered to them have not 

 always justified the public confidence re- 

 posed in them by the colonists, who have a 

 right to know whether or not the large sums 

 voted for the acclimatisation of salmon in 

 their rivers have been expended with the 

 best judgment and with a single eye to 

 the interest of the colony. Great credit 

 is due, no doubt, to the Tasmanian com- 

 missioners for the ability and assiduity 

 they have displayed in rearing the young 

 fish, and in distributing both ova and fry 

 to the neighbouring colonies, as may be 



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