Chapter 3

+------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------+ | | T | | | | | | | | o | | | | | | | Name | n | | Nature and | Total | | | | of | n | Date. | Locality of | or | Lives| Result of | | Vessel. | a | | Casualty. | Partial | Lost.| Inquiry. | | | g | | | Loss. | | | | | e | | | | | | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------+ +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------+ | | | 14 | Stranding, | | | | | Taldora, | 232 | July | Eagle Rock, | Partial | None | Master | | s.s. | | 1890 | Fitzroy River | | | cautioned. | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------+ | | | 20 | Stranding, | | | Pilot's license | | Archer, | 694 | July | M Reef, | Partial | None | suspended | | s.s. | | 1890 | Inner Route | | | 3 months. | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------+ | | | 22 | Stranding, | | | | | Changsha, |1463 | July | Rattray Island, | Partial | None | Master severely | | s.s. | | 1890 | Inner Route | | | censured. | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------+ | | | 06 | Stranding, | | | | | Volga, |1620 | August | Beresford Shoal | Total | None | No default. | | barque | | 1890 | | | | | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------+ | Grace | | 12 | Stranding, | | | | | Lynn, | 93 | August | reef off | Partial | None | Master Guilty; | | schr. | | 1890 | Low Island | | | gross negligence. | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------+ | | | 22 | Stranding, | | | | | Joseph, | 687 | August | Heroine Reef, | Total | None | Foreign vessel. | | barque | | 1890 | Endeavour Strait| | | No inquiry. | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------+ | Royal | | 22 | Foundering, | | | | | Duke, | 105 | August | Cooktown | Partial | None | No default. | | schr. | | 1890 | Harbour | | | | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------| | Jennie | | 21 | | | | | | Scott, | 38 |September| Stranding, | Total | None | No default. | | ketch | | 1890 | Flora Reef | | | | +---------------+-----+---------+--------------+---------+------+--------------------+ | | | 14 | Collision, | | | Pilot's license | | Taiyuan, |2269 | October | Brisbane | Partial | None | suspended for | | s.s. | | 1890 | River | | | 3 months. | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------+ | | | 09 | Fire, | | | | | Corea, | 382 |November | Brisbane | Partial | None | No default. | | s.s. | | 1890 | River | | | | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------+ | | | 11 | Collision, | | | Insufficient | | Kate, | 147 |November | Brisbane | Total | None | lookout on | | s.s. | | 1890 | Bar | | | Burwah. | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------+ | | | 11 | Collision, | | | Insufficient | | Burwah, | 568 |November | Brisbane | Partial | None | lookout on | | s.s. | | 1890 | Bar | | | Burwah. | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------+ | Maori | | 08 | Stranding, | | | | | King, |2476 |December | Brisbane | Partial | None | No default. | | s.s. | | 1890 | River | | | | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------+ | Orange | | 15 | Stranding, | | | | | Grove, | 385 |December | Dungeness | Partial | None | No default. | | barque | | 1890 | | | | | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------+ | | | 18 | Stranding, | | | | | Fiado, | 985 |December | Brisbane | Partial | None | No default. | | s.s. | | 1890 | River | | | | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------+ | | | 07 | Dismasting off | | | | | Sybil, | 150 | January | Double Island | Partial | None | No default. | | schr. | | 1891 | Point | | | | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------+ | Persever- | | 08 | Foundering 18 | | | Master's | | ance, | 163 | January | miles from High | Total | None | certificates | | schr. | | 1891 | Peak Point | | | cancelled. | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------+ | | | 08 | Damage to | | | Engineer's | | Wawoon, | 50 | January | boiler, | Partial | None | certificate | | s.s. | | 1891 | Fitzroy River | | | suspended 3 months.| +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------| | | | 05 | Stranding, | | | | | Kingswear, | 201 |February | Cordelia Rock | Partial | None | Master | | s.s. | | 1891 | | | | cautioned. | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------| | | | 06 | Stranding, | | | | | Recorder, | 677 |February | Madge Reef, | Partial | None | No default. | | s.s. | | 1891 | Normanby Sound | | | | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------| | | | 21 | Stranding, | | | | | Moltke, | 827 | May | Flinders | Partial | None | Foreign vessel. | | barque | | 1891 | Opening | | | No inquiry. | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------| | | | 10 | Collision, | | | | | Wastwater, |2810 | June | Brisbane | No Loss | None | Master Ranelagh | | s.s | | 1891 | River | | | cautioned. | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------| | | | 10 | Collision, | | | | | Ranelagh, | 836 | June | Brisbane | No Loss | None | Master Ranelagh | | s.s. | | 1891 | River | | | cautioned. | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------+ | | | 15 | Stranding, | | | | | Anahuac, |1220 | June | reef near | Total | None | Foreign vessel. | | ship | | 1891 | Bramble Cay | | | No inquiry. | +------------+-----+---------+-----------------+---------+------+--------------------+

Harbour Master's Office, Maryborough, 31st July, 1891.

SIR,--In accordance with your instructions, I have the honour to submit the following Report on the Oyster Fisheries of this port, the extreme limits of which extend from Tin Can Inlet on the south, taking in Wide Bay, Great Sandy Strait, and Hervey Bay, to the Burrum River on the north, covering a distance of nearly 100 miles, exclusive of many large creeks, all containing oyster ground between those limits.

I commenced marking off these oyster banks in July, 1886. We then had licenses issued for 72 banks, 18 boats, and 42 men, at a revenue of L398 for the year ending 30th June, 1886. We now have for the year ending 30th June, 1891, licenses issued for 175 oyster banks, 30 boats, and 53 men, at a revenue of L942 2s. 6d. [_Vide_ Schedule appended.]

I hope to have the survey of the different sections in Hervey Bay completed by the end of the present year, when tracings of plans of same will be forwarded to you. This would have been finished before, but that I can only spare a few days in each month from my other duties for the work. I shall then require to run over the whole district again, as a considerable quantity of new ground has been taken up in the different sections since first survey, owing to the heavy falls of spat which have since taken place, portions of which ground previously never carried an oyster. During the past year large quantities of spat have fallen on the oyster banks in Hervey Bay and Great Sandy Strait, some of the banks being literally covered, thus preventing the shipment of good marketable oysters, which, if removed in their present state, would cause the destruction of all the young oysters attached to them.

Great attention has been paid by the different licensees to the cultivation of their banks by removing the poor oysters from the high ridges, after being carefully culled and separated into clumps containing from three to four oysters, are deposited on the grass flat and lower ground lying near. Upwards of 4,000 bags have been treated in this manner with excellent results.

Over 9,000 bags of marketable oysters, at a rough value of 30s. per bag (L13,500), have been shipped during the past year by the different licensees to the various markets of the colonies. Messrs. Leftwich and Sons alone have sent over 3,500 bags; the Moreton Bay Oyster Company and Messrs. Perry and Griffin have also shipped large quantities of oysters for the purpose of cultivating the Moreton Bay banks.

In conclusion, I am pleased to state that the whole business throughout is in a flourishing condition and steadily increasing in magnitude, and I feel confident that the revenue received from this industry for the following year will reach four figures.

FISHERIES.

There have been large quantities of mullet in this district during the season which commences when the westerly winds set in, generally about the end of May and ending about August, when they come close in to the shore to spawn. Crabs are also plentiful.

I do not think that a close season is at all necessary at this port, as there are so few persons engaged in the traffic.

Licenses have been issued at this port for the year ending 30th June, 1891, to 6 Europeans and 4 Chinese; also 6 boats.

I have, &c., EDWD. J. BOULT, Inspector of Fisheries.

The Chairman, Marine Board, Brisbane.

SCHEDULE RESPECTING OYSTER FISHERIES, MARYBOROUGH.

Period. Banks. Boats. Men. Revenue. Year ending June, 1886 72 18 40 398 0 0 Year ending June, 1887 140 30 70 765 0 0 Year ending June, 1888 150 40 73 836 0 0 Year ending June, 1889 167 37 77 923 0 0 Year ending June, 1890 163 33 51 903 0 0 Year ending June, 1891 175 31 53 949 2 6

Transfers and Fishing Licenses. L12.

_Price_ 1_s._ 6_d._

By Authority: James C. Beal, Government Printer, William street, Brisbane.