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coast. This naturally impedes the development of Irish 

 fisheries, as it is obvious that the freights and enor- 

 mous railway rates necessitate a lower price being paid 

 for the fish than is paid in more favoured districts. 



Should this be ? I think not, and I ask, will the 

 authorities allow a railway monopoly to increase the price 

 of food, and thereby preclude many from obtaining it ? 

 Certainly they should not, and I hope the Government 

 will take steps to remove this barrier to the develop- 

 ment of Irish fisheries, and thus help to increase the food 

 supply of the United Kingdom. 



I now come to the concluding portion of my paper, and 

 I shall devote it, as I have explained, to an exposition of 

 the insufficient fishery accommodation on the Irish coast. 

 When I began this essay, I stated that the Government 

 had neglected the fisheries and harbour accommodation 

 of the south of Ireland. I now state authoritatively that 

 the fishery population and fisheries of that portion of the 

 United Kingdom, and particularly of Kinsale and its 

 branches, have, with some few unimportant exceptions, 

 never been encouraged by the Government ; nor have they 

 proposed to the fishers of those districts any scheme which 

 by Government aid would develop the wonderful and 

 important food resources of the mackerel, herring, and 

 other fisheries I have written of. 



In illustration of how pier and harbour accommodation 

 has been neglected by the Government, I shall give a 

 brief outline of the history of the Kinsale fishery pier 

 and sea-wall. 



In 1878, after many years of petitioning and seeking, 

 a Bill was passed by Parliament, granting to the Kinsale 

 Harbour Commissioners a sum of 7 500, and providing 

 that a further sum of 6500 should be advanced on loan 



