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The following description of the shipment 

 by the Oberon is taken from an article in 

 the Field of January 18, 1873— 



" We had an opportunity, through the 

 kindness of Mr. J. A. Youl, of being present, 

 on the 14th inst., at the East India Docks, 

 together with several gentlemen interested 

 in the subject, to witness the packing of a 

 large consignment of salmon ova for Otago, 

 New Zealand. There is no necessity to in- 

 form those among our readers who have any 

 experience in pisciculture that the utmost 

 care and delicacy are needed to protect 

 these sensitive embryos from all kinds of 

 violence on a journey to New Zealand ; but 

 the method by v/hich this is effected may 

 not be familiar even to persons very well 

 informed on the treatment of salmon ova at 

 home. It must be recollected that in the 

 case of a voyage to New Zealand the ova 

 have to pass some weeks in a place where 

 the temperature would, unless provided 

 against, be seldom below 90° Fahr. ; and 

 ten seconds of such a temperature would be 

 fatal to every chance of landing ova alive at 



