SEA-FISHERIES LABORATORY. 75 



CLASSES, VISITORS, &c, AT PIEL. 

 By Andrew Scott, A.L.S. 



The Education Committee of the Lancashire County 

 Council voted the usual amount of money which allows 

 forty-five studentships to be given to fishermen residing 

 in the administrative area. These studentships enable 

 the selected fishermen to attend at Piel and receive 

 during two weeks a course of instruction in Marine 

 Biology, or, if they are qualified, a combined course in 

 Marine Biology and Navigation. The Education Com- 

 mittee also permitted Captain E. Barker Thornber, the 

 County Navigation Instructor,, to be at Piel for a period 

 of six weeks. Captain Thornber gave instruction in 

 Navigation and Seamanship to thirty-nine of the student- 

 ship holders who had put in the necessary sea time to 

 qualify them to sit for the Board of Trade Certificates. 

 The Education Committee of the County Borough of 

 Southport sent four men, and the Education Committee 

 of the County Borough of Blackpool again sent three 

 men. The County Boroughs make special arrangements 

 with the Sea Fisheries Committee for sending their men, 

 and can either pay the studentships directly or through 

 the Fisheries Committee. Altogether, fifty-two fisher- 

 men attended the classes held in 1914. The studentship 

 Holders were divided into four classes — one of eleven men, 

 two of thirteen, and one of fourteen, as shown by the 

 following lists : — 



First Class, held March 2nd to 13th— L. Bettass, 

 W. Chard, J. W. Crompton, J. Dawson, J. F. Flaxman, 

 Jos. Jackson, W. A. Jackson, W. Kay, W. McLellan, 

 J. Weave, W. Palmer, J. Rigby, E. Wales, and 

 R. Wright, all of Fleetwood. 



