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out the distance from the land at which fish are caught, 

 and showed the delay that occurs at Kinsale by reason of 

 insufficient accommodation of one kind or other. Now I 

 believe that on no more fitting place could the Government 

 expend some thousands in development of fisheries, and 

 for aiding the quick transmission of fish to market, than 

 here. 



At the north of Kinsale Harbour there are two points — 

 Hangman and Money Points — one on the eastern and the 

 other on the western side of the entrance. The railway at 

 Kinsale terminates at the eastern side of the inner harbour ; 

 and it would be a saving of hours, perhaps one night's 

 fishing, to the boats if a fishery pier were built at this 

 eastern point, and connected either by rail or tramway with 

 the railway and the already proposed inner or town fishery 

 pier. 



At Baltimore, Youghal, and Crookhaven, piers or har- 

 bours might also be made by Government aid, with 

 peculiar advantage to the fisheries on the coast, and safety 

 to the lives of the fishermen. 



Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds worth of fish 

 shipped from this coast in three months feed a great 

 many mouths in England. The quantity of food obtain- 

 able might, by judicious help from the Government, be 

 more than doubled. I have pointed out how the fisheries 

 might be aided ; I have recommended steam fishing-boats, 

 improved carriers, moderate railway rates, and improved 

 and sufficient harbour and pier accommodation. All these 

 might the Government help to accomplishment. It is, in 

 a great measure, in their hands to increase the food supply 

 of the United Kingdom by these means. I ask, almost 

 incredulously, will they do it ? 



Since this portion of my paper was written, I am glad to 



