DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Sayer proposed a vote of thanks to Sir Ambrose 

 Shea for his very valuable paper. He said there was not 

 much dried cod used in this country, because we were 

 supplied so well with fresh cod. We used to get fish off 

 Ramsgate and Margate, but now we had to go nearly to 

 the coast of Norway for it, and there was no doubt the 

 time would come when English fishermen would have to 

 make their way to Newfoundland, and perhaps even to 

 America. There was no town in the world so well sup- 

 plied with fish as London, as was shown by the fact that 

 Mr. Hewitt supplied Billingsgate with 1 3,000 tons of fresh 

 fish, at a cost of I'^d. per lb. He had no doubt there was 

 an opening in Newfoundland for English merchants, and 

 he hoped the time would come when the Labrador 

 herring would be brought to the London market. The 

 nets formerly employed had a mesh of twenty-eight to the 

 yard, but they were used now forty to the yard, the result 

 of which was that immature fish were caught, and fisher- 

 men had to go farther and farther off. 



Mr. WiLMOT, in seconding the motion, said it afforded 

 him great pleasure to find that the adjoining colony to his 

 own took such a prominent part in the Exhibition, and he 

 hoped the time would arrive when his friend Sir Ambrose 

 Shea would come to the conclusion that it was advisable 

 not to stay out in the cold, but to join the Canadian con- 

 federation. Had the two colonies been united, they would 

 have stood foremost in the world for the exhibit of fish. 

 No one was better fitted to prepare a Paper on this subject 

 than Sir Ambrose Shea, who had been identified with 

 Newfoundland for a long time, and who recently had a 



