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Return showing Proceedings taken for Breaches of the Fisheries Act.

Return showing Number of Fishing-boats registered and licensed at each Port during the Year ended 31st December, 1914.

Return showing the Total Ordinary Expenditure of the Marine and Inspection of Machinery Department during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1915.

Name of Person. Nature of Offence. Fine. L. Jenkinson J. Lambert J. Cross .. H. Wright A. Anderson H. J. Biggs D. Cincolla For illegally taking oysters For stalling .. £5 and costs. £1 and costs. 15 £2 and costs. £1 and costs. £2 and costs. £1 and costs. ,, . . . . For illegally taking oysters For having nets with undersized mesh in possession Ditto A. Tomlinson | Q. Dixon.. C. Ormes.. G. Foster W. Martin V. Picone A. Gordon T. H. Blake T. Bridger K. Ramsay W. Carter J. Bark .. .). Rabbidge G. Field .. T. Kernot E. Patrick M. McElroy For illegally taking oysters ,, £3 and costs. 51 £4 and costs. £2 and costs. 55 5, £5 and costs. £4 and costs. £1 and costs. 55

Port. Number registered. Number licensed. Port. Number Number registered. licensed iuokland Blenheim Bluff .. Dunedin and Port Chalmers Gkeymouth Hokianga Inveroargill Kaipara Lyttelton Napier Nelson 389 10 81 91 9 15 42 90 261 51 84 389 0 81 91 9 15 42 42 261 51 83 Brought forward .. New Plymouth Oamaru Picton Poverty Bay Russell Tauranga Thames Timaru Wanganui Wellington Westport 1,123 20 34 32 29 67 46 57 26 13 105 16 1 ,070 20 28 32 28 67 32 57 26 13 70 16 Carried forward .. 1,123 1,070 Totals 1,568 1,459

Nature of Expenditure.' Details. Totals. Grand Totals. Head Office : Salaries of staff Harbours: — Greymouth,— Salary of Engineer* Hokianga,— Salaries of Harbour staff Removal of snags Stores and contingencies £ s. d. £ s. d. 4,538 II 1 440 0 0 £ s. d. 560 16 8 16 0 0 130 11 3 707 7 11 Kaipara,— Salaries of staff Repairing beacon, Helensville Creek Repairing launch Fascines for sand protection Repairing and attending buoys .. Stores and contingencies 749 10 0 215 4 2 26 11 10 30 0 0 39 1 9 190 2 8 1,250 10 5 * Refunded b; Gre; -mouth Harbour Board.