H.—44a.

APPENDIX C. Table showing Fish landed at Chatham Island.

APPENDIX D. Table showing the Annual Production of Dredge Oysters from Foveaux Strait, 1913-37

.Average 1913-27, 26,344 sacks—lowest (1927), 21,009 ; highest (1913), 33,931. Average 1928-32, 38,984 sacks—lowest (1931), 36,538 ; highest (1930), 42,176. Average 1933-37, 54,493 sacks —lowest (1933), 42,176 ; highest (1937), 64,912.

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Year ended. Boats fishing. ®anded. d Groper landed. °ianded I8h Remarks. Cwt. Cwt. Cwt. 31st March, 1928 .. .. 12 4,955 1 31st March; 1930 " !! 12 12,111 f Smal1 quantities included with the blue cod. 31st March, 1931 .. .. 12 7,433 J 31st March, 1932 .. .. 9 2,906 31 31st March, 1933 .. .. 6 2,177 31st March, 1934 .. .. 17 16,764 487 .. " South Sea" operating. 31st March, 1935 .. .. 18 12,880 659 31st March, 1936 .. .. 18 23,555 1,371 18 31st March, 1937 .. .. 17 14,864 242 6

Year. Sacks. Year. | Sacks. 1913 .. .. 33,931 1925 .. .. 25,857 1914 .. .. 24,739 1926 .. .. 27,828 1915 .. .. 32,839 1927 .. .. 21,009 1916 .. .. 29,209 1928 .. .. 38,793 1917 .. .. 22,225 1929 .. .. 39,331 1918 .. .. 25,007 1930 .. .. 42,774 1919 .. .. 21,394 1931 .. .. 36,538 1920 .. .. 26,703 1932 .. .. 37,484 1921 .. .. 24,564 1933 .. .. 42,176 1922 .. .. 27,280 1934 .. .. 52,254 1923 .. .. 28,785 1935 .. .. 49,712 1924 .. .. 23,796 1936 .. .. 63,412 1937 .. .. 64,912* * 1937 returns not complete.