§ MR. PEMBERTONasked the President of the Board of Trade, Whether his attention has been called to the Report of Mr. Walpole, one of the Inspectors acting under the provisions of "The Herne Bay Fishery Act, 1864," and to the Report of the Board of Trade, signed by Mr. Farrer, and dated February 1875; and, whether, inasmuch as the Herne Bay Company has not adopted the course recommended by the Report of the Inspector, it is the intention of the Board to take any and what steps to restore the fishing grounds occupied by the Company, under the powers of the Act of 1864, to the public?
§ SIR CHARLES ADDERLEYSir, my attention has, of course, been called to a Report moved for and presented by myself. An official Report was made by Mr. Walpole, then an Inspector of Fisheries under the Home Office. It proposed a settlement of the question which could not be carried out, as it was not within the terms of the old Act. I have introduced, and Parliament has passed, six weeks ago, a new Act, under which, on a memorial being received an official inspection and report, now for the first time under the Board of Trade, may be made and acted upon.