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by the Irish Board of Works, and also permitting the 

 Kinsale Harbour Commissioners to expend a sum of 

 ;2OOO from their funds, all for the purpose of building 

 a fishery pier and sea-wall. During the five years since 

 that Bill was passed, reams of letters and deputation after 

 deputation were sent from Kinsale to the Board of Public 

 Works to hasten on the commencement of the pier. " Red 

 tapeism," however, had to be wound and unwound its 

 accustomed (in this instance, I have to believe, unaccus- 

 tomed) length. Obstacles of easy removal were made 

 mountains of ; a few hundreds extra swelled to thousands 

 so far as the difficulty of obtaining it, even a loan, from 

 the Government, was concerned ; and despite the import- 

 ance of the fishery which waited for the pier, and the 

 fact of its admitted necessity, it has been commenced to 

 be built only since this paper was written. 



From what I have said of the non-encouragement of 

 Irish fisheries by the Government, it may appear to some 

 persons that the story of this pier and the Government grant 

 is a contradiction of such a statement. But I speak of 

 encouragement, and, in my opinion, it is not encouragement, 

 either on the part of a Government or an individual, when 

 it takes many years to extract help from them for such a 

 purpose. 



Travelling through Scotland and the North of England, 

 I was struck with the accommodation afforded by the 

 Government to the fisheries there, in the shape of State- 

 aided harbours, piers, &c. 



Why the same advantages should not be extended to 

 Ireland, I know not. However, I shall point out where the 

 Government could improve the fishery accommodation on 

 the southern Irish coast, and then I have done. 



When dealing with the transmission of fish, I pointed 



