[151]. Ibid., p. 24.
[152]. “Reports on the Pearl Fishery for 1904,” Colombo, p. 6.
[153]. “Colonial Sessional Papers,” 1904, Colombo, p. 653.
[154]. “Colonial Sessional Papers,” 1906, Colombo, p. 330.
[155]. “Reports on the Pearl Fisheries for 1905,” Colombo, p. 25.
[156]. Ordinance No. 8 of 1906.
[157]. “Ceylon Sessional Papers,” 1906, p. 328.
[158]. Ibid., pp. 333, 335.
[159]. “Ceylon Sessional Papers,” 1906, p. 650.
[160]. The Government Commission has interdicted the fishing for this year (1908), as experts have reported the pearl-oysters were not plentiful enough and were also immature, being only five years old. The next fishery will be in 1909.