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share in the benefit of our success, which the Com- 

 missioners gladly acknowledge, and which it will be 

 their anxious desire to gratify at the earliest possible 

 opportunity. 



At Christchurch a Pond and hatching boxes have 

 long since been constructed under the superinten- 

 dence of Mr. Johnson, Secretary to the Acclimatisa- 

 tion Society of that place. This gentleman has 

 further offered to come in person to this Colony for 

 the purpose of receiving and conveying to Christ- 

 church such supply of Ova as the Commissioners 

 may be able to furnish, and which it wUl afford 

 them much gratification to provide during the 

 season, if the numbers of Ova at their disposal 

 should prove sufficient. 



The claims of other localities will be attended to 

 as rapidly as possible according to the means which 

 may be at the command of the Commissioners. 



In another year a much increased number of 

 Ova may be expected from the same fish ; and in 

 the meantime other centres of supply will have been 

 established, from which Ova or Fry may be dis- 

 tributed in all directions. 



It may be expected, according to the prepon- 

 derance of authority on that long disputed question 

 — the duration of the stay of the Salmon in the 

 sea — that the fish produced from the hatching of 

 1864 will return to the neighbourhood of their 



