THE IRISH FISHERIES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 47, 21 March 1874, Page 13

THE IRISH FISHERIES.

A sebibs of articles on ' Irish' prosperity ' have lately appeared in the • Tablet.' The writer having referred to the Irish Fisheries, sumß up regarding them, in the following particulars :— We have faithfully stated the case between the Scotch and the Irish Fisheries, in their relation to State aid. We have confined our evidence to official sources. No impartial reader can fail to see upon which side justice lies. A highly valuable national industry, formerly fostered by a native Parliament, has, through refusal to aid it— as a like industry has been aided in Scotland — been permitted to decline and languish, so that its very annihilation in the sense of an Irish industry is threatened. These are amongst the hard facts that stare Home Rulers in the face, and strengthen their appeal to national sentiments. The Irish Fisheries ought to be reorganised uader able Commission ; liberal support should be given to it ; piers and harbors be provided ; and loans, after the manner of land loans, and others of a similar kind, be extended to this important industry.