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From Harwich to Norwich, at Owner’s risk-- 
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The above is a true list of the railway charges. 
Yours respectfully, 
J. JENNINGS, 
Wholesale Fish Merchant, Harwich. 
He thought it was most important to the fishing industry 
of the British Islands that some resolution should be 
passed that day relative to the enormous charges now 
being levied by the railway companies. He had himself 
received barrels of salmon, which had come 1,000 miles 
north of California, and were delivered into the London 
market at #1 per barrel. It was monstrous that a barrel 
of herrings should cost 7s. 8d, to come from Glasgow to 
London. The charges now levied by the railway com- 
panies for carrying the common sort of fish prevented the 
fishermen from sending it to London. He declared 
emphatically, on behalf of the fishermen of England, that 
it was a great drawback upon the men that they had no 
means of sending the fish to market and receiving a fair 
percentage for their labour. He thought the time had 
now arrived when the Executive of that Exhibition or a 
