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fortunately, there had been legislation carried out without 
inquiry, and afterwards fishermen had had to complain of 
it. He alluded especially to the Fishing Vessels’ Lights 
Act. This matter was undoubtedly one of the greatest pos- 
sible difficulties, and what had been said to-day would have 
due weight, because the discussion would be published in 
the official documents, and would be read in every part 
of the world. Before anything was done, however, a Royal 
Commission would have to be sanctioned, and no doubt 
it would take, as in the case of 1866, some two years 
to investigate the matter. Then the next step would 
be to endeavour to persuade foreign Governments to 
take part in it also, and that would be an exceedingly 
difficult thing. He for one could not hold out any hope 
that at present foreign Governments would assist, though 
possibly he might be wrong. Another point to be borne 
in mind was this, that if an international convention were 
agreed to there would be this difficulty in carrying it out, 
namely, of having a sufficient number of gun-boats to 
enforce the regulations which were made. There were 
many other matters he should be glad to touch upon, but 
time did not allow going into them. 
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. 
The CHAIRMAN announced that the first subject to be 
taken into consideration the following morning would be 
the Railway Rates. 
