§ MR. FETHERSTONHAUGHTo ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that a farmer named M'Gloin recently recovered damages for trespass against a fisherman named Cavanagh for mooring his boat in Ballysadare Bay, county Sligo, at a place marked as foreshore upon the Admiralty chart, and upon which it was proved the tide ebbed and flowed at all ordinary tides; and will he inquire as to the facts from the coastguard officer who gave evidence for the defence, and direct that the coastguard shall be watchful to prevent claims arising by user of foreshores by the farmers whose lands abut on the bay so as to secure to the fishermen their privileges of landing boats and nets on the shores vested in the Crown.
(Answered by Mr. Lloyd-George.) I have asked the coastguard officer to report on all the matters mentioned in the hon. Member's Question, and when I have received the Report I shall be glad to communicate with the hon. Member.