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and which was the occupation of his life, could not do 

 better than invest his savings in that industry. He was 

 afraid that he had rather digressed from the first line of 

 proposing a vote of thanks to Mr. Mundahl, but he could 

 not help making these observations. The Chairman, the 

 Hon. Member for Grimsby, and himself, with a number of 

 others, were members of a Select Committee to consider the 

 question of harbours, and that day before coming to the 

 meeting he put a question to Mr, Stephenson, one of the 

 most eminent of the Scotch engineers who built the har- 

 bours and lighthouses round the coast of Scotland, saying 

 they had been told by Sir Thomas Boyd that since the im- 

 provement of the harbours of Scotland during the last forty 

 years the fishing trade had doubled, and further that if 

 they could only provide proper harbours round the Scotch 

 coast the extension of the fishing industry was illimit- 

 able, and asked Mr. Stephenson his opinion upon it. His 

 reply was, "Well, illimitable is a large word, but I do 

 not think it is extreme. I think the whole question of 

 the extension of fisheries in Scotland is a question of the 

 improvement of harbours." Now, if that were so they 

 knew exactly what was required, and he was quite certain 

 that in that Committee they would have the candid sup- 

 port of the Honourable Members for Grimsby in favour of 

 improving the harbours of England, Scotland, and Ireland 

 as far and as fast as they could, with the view of improving 

 this noble industry of fishing. There was only one other 

 point he wished to mention, and that was this it was not 

 merely a question of catching fish, it was a question of the 

 naval supremacy of this country, for if the fishing interest 

 were abolished to-day where would be the navy the day 

 after ; if on the other hand by a judicious outlay of 

 capital, everybody pulling together, and dropping all that 



