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and which was the occupation of his life, could not do 
better than invest his savings in that industry. He was 
afraid that he had rather digressed from the first line of 
proposing a vote of thanks to Mr. Mundahl, but he could 
not help making these observations. The Chairman, the 
Hon. Member for Grimsby, and himself, with a number of 
others, were members of a Select Committee to consider the 
question of harbours, and that day before coming to the 
meeting he put a question to Mr. Stephenson, one of the 
most eminent of the Scotch engineers who built the har- 
bours and lighthouses round the coast of Scotland, saying 
they had been told by Sir Thomas Boyd that since the im- 
provement of the harbours of Scotland during the last forty 
years the fishing trade had doubled, and further that if 
they could only provide proper harbours round the Scotch 
coast the extension of the fishing industry was illimit- 
able, and asked Mr. Stephenson his opinion upon it. His 
reply was, “Well, illimitable is a large word, but I do 
not think it is extreme. I think the whole question of 
the extension of fisheries in Scotland is a question of the 
improvement of harbours.” Now, if that were so they 
knew exactly what was required, and he was quite certain 
that in that Committee they would have the candid sup- 
port of the Honourable Members for Grimsby in favour of 
improving the harbours of England, Scotland, and Ireland 
as far and as fast as they could, with the view of improving 
this noble industry of fishing. There was only one other 
point he wished to mention, and that was this—it was not 
merely a question of catching fish, it was a question of the 
naval supremacy of this country, for if the fishing interest 
were abolished to-day where would be the navy the day 
after; if on the other hand by a judicious outlay of 
capital, everybody pulling together, and dropping all that 
