'For many years the Scottish Fishery Board have had placed at their disposal for harbour works a small annual sum. The result of the expenditure of these moneys has not been such as to cause much satisfaction at the manner in which they have been expended. Your Committee think that it would be well, for the future, that the Scottish Fishery Board should be allowed to apply any funds with which they may be entrusted for purposes of harbour improvement, as a security for loans, to be made by the Public Works Loans Board to harbours which may be approved both by that Board and by the Scottish Fishery Board. ments in "21. Your Committee are of opinion that when Fishery Boards are constituted in England Fishery Harand Ireland, the question of improvement to fishery harbours in those countries should not be bour improvelost sight of, and that these boards should, for the purposes of harbour improvement, be England and provided with funds at least on a similar scale and invested with similar powers to those Ireland. enjoyed by the Scottish Fishery Board. to centres of "22. The importance throughout the United Kingdom of greater facilities of transit for fish Facilities for from outlying districts to centres of population, and for telegraphic communication between transit of fish those centres and the outlying districts, has been made very apparent to your Committee; and population; they desire to express the hope that this question will not be lost sight of by those Departments telegraphic of the Government (and especially the Post Office) before whom the question may from time communicato time be brought. tion. "23. But little evidence has been offered to your Committee from Ireland, doubtless owing Irish evidence. to the season of the year and the inconveniences and difficulties which are involved by the attendance of Irish witnesses at Westminster. "Your Committee greatly regret that owing to the illness of Sir Thomas Brady they lost the advantage of the important evidence expected from that gentleman. "The special complaint which comes from the Claddagh fishermen against the trawlers in Galway Bay seems to be one of the disputes arising from the differences occurring between different classes of fishermen fishing on the same ground. Your Committee are of opinion that some regulations might be devised by the Irish Fishery inspectors, which would enable the Claddagh fishermen and the Galway trawlers to carry on their respective methods of fishing with mutual good feeling, and without interfering with one another. "24. From the evidence of Mr. Green, one of the Irish Fishery inpectors, there does not seem to be any ground for believing that there is any general deterioration or depletion of Irish fisheries. The control of the Irish fisheries lies in the hands of three appointed fishery inspectors, who have large powers in the way of making bye-laws, subject to ratification by the Irish Privy Council. Your Committee believe that in Ireland also it would be desirable that the authority to regulate Irish fisheries should, as in England and Scotland, be a board into which a considerable representative element should enter." Question, That the Draft Report, proposed by the Chairman, be read a Second time, paragraph by paragraph.-The Committee divided: Ayes, 8. Mr. Buchanan. Dr. Clark. Colonel Cotton-Jodrell. Lord George Hamilton. Mr. Heneage. Noes, 3.. Condition of Board. Dr. Clark. Mr. Renshaw. Paragraph 1, agreed to. Paragraph 2, amended, and agreed to. Dr. Tanner. Sir Albert Rollit. Lord George Hamilton. Paragraphs 3 and 4, agreed to. Paragraph 5.-Amendment proposed in line 1, to leave out the words "with regard to other round fish, amongst the most important of which are the cod and the haddock "-(Mr. Buchanan).-Question, That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the paragraph, put.-The Committee divided: Ayes, 5. Commander Bethell. Mr. Mallock. Mr. Renshaw. Sir Albert Rollit. Noes, 4. Mr. Buchanan. Mr. Pinkerton. Another Amendment proposed, in line 2, after the word "haddock" to insert the words "though local scarcities in certain places off the coast of Scotland are stated to have been caused by the operation of steam trawlers "-(The Chairman).—Question, That those words be there inserted,-put, and agreed to. Another Amendment made.-Question put, That the paragraph, as amended, stand part of the Report.-The Committee divided: Ayes, 8. Commander Bethell. Lord George Hamilton. Mr. Mallock. Mr. Pinkerton. Mr. Robert Price. Mr. Renshaw. Sir Albert Rollit. Paragraph 6.-Amendments made. Noes, 2. Mr. Buchanan. Another Amendment proposed, in line 8, after the word "plaice," to insert the words "and that this diminution must be attributed to over fishing by trawlers in certain localities "-(The Chairman).-Question proposed, That those words be there inserted.-Amendment proposed to the proposed Amendment to leave out the words "in certain localities "-(Mr. Buchanan).— Question, That the words "in certain localities" stand part of the proposed Amendment.-The Committee divided: Question, That the proposed words be there inserted, put and agreed to. Paragraph 6, as amended, agreed to. Paragraph 7, agreed to. Paragraph 8.-Amendments made. Another Amendment proposed, in line 2, after the words "forbid the," to insert the words "landing or"-(Sir A. Rollit).-Question put, That those words be there inserted.-The Committee divided: Ayes, 3. Commander Bethell. Mr. Heneage. Sir Albert Rollit. Noes, 7. Mr. Buchanan. Dr. Clark. Lord George Hamilton. Mr. Mallock. Mr. Pinkerton. Mr. Robert Price. Mr. Renshaw. Another Another Amendment proposed, in line 2, after the words "adoption of," to leave out the word "the," and insert the words "any size limit "-(Mr. Mallock).-Question put, That the word "the" stand part of the paragraph.-The Committee divided: Ayes, 7. Commander Bethell. Lord George Hamilton. Mr. Heneage. Mr. Pinkerton Mr. Renshaw. Sir Albert Rollit. Noes, 3. Mr. Mallock. Another Amendment proposed, in line 4, after the word "boats," to insert the words "and the smaller limit in use in foreign countries would be of no practical advantage "(Commander Bethell).-Question put, That those words be there inserted.-The Committee divided: Ayes, 1. Noes, 10. Mr. Buchanan. Lord George Hamilton. Mr. Heneage. Mr. Mallock. Mr. Pinkerton. Mr. Robert Price. Mr. Renshaw. Sir Albert Rollit. Another Amendment made. Another Amendment proposed, in line 7, after the word "plaice," to insert the words "and ten inches for "-(Mr. Heneage).-Question, That those words be there inserted,-put, and agreed to. Question, That the paragraph, as amended, stand part of the Report,-put, and agreed to. Paragraph 9, agreed to. Paragraph 10.-Amendment proposed, in line 9, to leave out the words " provided such extension can be effected upon an international basis, and with due regard to the rights and interests of all nations."-(Mr. Mallock.)-Question put, That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the paragraph.-The Committee divided: Paragraph 23.-An Amendment proposed, at the end of the paragraph, to add the words. 'for instance, trawling might be prohibited within a certain area of Galway Bay, say within a line drawn from West to East from Castle Tully upon the Connemara Coast to Ballylee Point upon the Coast of Clare "-(The Chairman).-Question, That those words be there added,put, and agreed to. Paragraph, as amended, agreed to. Paragraph 24.-An Amendment proposed, at the end of the paragraph, to add the words "and your Committee are of opinion that in all cases fishery inspectors should be selected for 0.93. their special and practical knowledge, and not for any other consideration "-(Dr. Tanner).— Question put, That those words be there added.-The Committee divided: Ayes, 4. Mr. Pinkerton. Sir Albert Rollit. Dr. Tanner. Noes, 5. Mr. Mallock. Question put, That the paragraph stand part of the Report.-The Committee divided: Question, That the Report be the Report of the Committee to the House, -put,and agreed to. Ordered, To Report, together with the Minutes of Evidence and an Appendix. |