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(e) Future Plans.

Further immediate expansion will depend on

two main factors:

(i) The supply of new desks and equipment.

(ii) The de-requisitioning of school buildings at present

occupied by the Services. No fewer than eight of

these are now occupied - among them are the finest

school buildings in the Colony.

4.

FISHERIES.

The wholesale fish marketing scheme made a successful start, but

of late has come in for a certain amount of active opposition fror

the laans, this month. This opposition has temporarily been over-

come and there has been no further trouble. The value of fish

handled is as follows:-

Fresh Fish

Salted Fish

$244,000

$2,000,000

Pond Fish

$45,000

Comments.

(a) Fresh Fish. The considerable excess of Salted Fish over

Fresh Fish is attributed chiefly to lack of ice, resulting

in fishermen having to salt a large proportion of their

catches.

(b) Fresh Pond Fish. This is disappointing and the amount

caught is below normal, but during the last month increases

have been made and it is hoped that shortly the catches will

be more normal.

(c) Prices.

The marked fall in wholesale prices, especially

in dried and salted fish, has partially achieved one of the

aims of the Fisheries Scheme.

(d) Black Market.

There has been much illegal wholesaling of