§ MR. GLENDINNING (Antrim, N.)To ask the President of the Board of Trade if any complaints have been made to his Department that two steamers with armed police patrol Lough Neagh between sunset and sunrise without showing lights, much to the danger of those using the lough at night; whether he is aware that these steamers are in the employ of private fishing claimants; and will he make inquiries into the matter with the view of putting a stop to the practice.
(Answered by Mr. Churchill.) A complaint was made to the Board of Trade by the Fishermen's Defence Union that two launches were in the habit of plying; on Lough Neagh without lights, and it 2355 was ascertained on inquiry that they were used by the water bailiffs in the employment of fishery lessees. The matter is not one in which the Board of Trade can interfere.