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creased the income of those interested in the subject. 
Speaking as a practical fisherman, he should be happy to 
do his mite in the matter, in order to bring pressure to bear 
upon the railway companies, and to try and show them 
that this was a question which could no longer be dis- 
regarded. It might be said that they could bring fish by 
water, but that mode of conveyance was scarcely worth 
mentioning, and to many places fish could not be sent by 
water, so that the railways had nothing to fear from com- 
petition. The Grimsby Smack Owners’ Association had 
tried over and over again to bring pressure to bear upon 
the railway companies, but up to the present time they 
had not succeeded in lowering the rates, although the rail- 
way companies had at different times offered some little 
compromise, but the concessions made had not been 
adequate to the requirements of the case. He hoped that 
a resolution would be passed by that meeting, and for- 
warded to the proper quarters, which would have the effect 
of arousing public feeling upon the matter, so that attention 
might be drawn to the subject. 
Mr. JEX said he also was a practical fisherman, and a 
member of the Fish Trade Association of London, having 
been appointed delegate for England, Ireland and Scotland 
to appear before the Railway Commissioners upon the 
subject of railway charges. He had received a great many 
communications upon the subject of railway charges, which, 
with the permission of the meeting, he would refer to. 
The first letter was from Mr. Thompson, of Leith, who 
stated that the railway carried vegetables at 25s. per ton. 
If sprats were carried at the owner’s risk, the rate was 55s. 
per ton, and if at the company’s risk, 73s. 4d. per ton, the 
value of the sprats being about £9. Potatoes were carried 
in four-ton lots in a truck at 25s. per ton, or 45 share of 
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