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Ninth Annual Report of the 
£1500, — the whole of which weat for telegraphic extension — the 
annual appropriation for telegraphic extension originally commencad 
in 1884 at £1000, b^in^^ now £1500. The result has been that 
practically the Board have had no money to give for the building 
of harbours beyond the annual grant of £3000 for some years; 
and notwithstanding the growth of the country in wealth and 
population, the great increase of the size of the boats used by 
iidiermen, and the enormous extension of the fishing industry, we 
are no further forward in its public promotion and encouragement, 
so far as the Imperial Exchequer is concerned, than in 1809. 
The following is a list of the most important and pressing appli- 
cations before the Board, which, for the reasons above stated, could 
not be entertained, with the estimated cost of the works, the sum 
to be contributed by the locality, or otherwise raised, and the sum 
asked to be voted by the j^oard : — 
Places. 
Estimated 
Cost. 
Locality's 
Contribution. 
Board's 
Share. 
Stonehaven, . 
£15,000 
£10,000 
£5,000 
Cairnbulg, &c., 
13,000 
3,000 
10,000 
Whitehills, . 
9,000 
2,250 
6,750 
Pennan, 
6,000 
2,000 
4,000 
Burnmouth, . 
3,500 
1,166 
2.334 
St Andrews, 
4,000 
1,000 
3,000 
Nairn, .... 
4,000 
1,000 
3,000 
In addition to the above, applications for grants for harbours have 
been received from the following places, viz.:— Avoch, Badentarbert, 
Blackwater, Colliestou, CuUen, Carradale, Dunbeath, Embo, Fair 
Isle, Foula, Fraserburgh, Girvan, Golspie, Helmsdale, Keiss, Kin- 
lochbervie, Leckrobie, Lochbuie, Longhope, Melvig, Port Errol, 
Portmahomack, Port Seton, Portskerrj, Skerray, Scoraig, Stroma, 
Talmine, Tiree, Waternish, West Loch Tarbert, Uig. 
statement of In Appendix F, will be found an account of the receipt and 
tuuds. expenditure by the Board last year for building, extending, and 
repairing piers and harbours. 
TELEGRAPHIC EXTENSION TO REMOTE FISHERY 
DISTRICTS. 
In the last Report the names of places were given to which 
telegraphic communication had been extended under agreements 
entered into between the Postmaster-General and the Board, 
together with illustrations of the benefits which had resulted to the 
fisheries by such extensions. 
Great benefit Telegraphic extensions are most valuable to fishermen, fishcurers, 
of telegraphic 
