|
| 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