§ Mr. FIELD(by Private Notice) asked the Chief Secretary for Ireand whether railway and shipping transport facilities are refused to carry herrings from Balbriggan and that much valuable food is thereby being lost; whether he will exercise pressure to have this waste prevented; and whether it is a fact that empty steam colliers aggregating 1,000 tons leave Dublin daily for Liverpool without cargo?
§ Mr. DUKEThe question the hon. Member has put contains a part which does not appear in the notice I have received. The answer to the question I received is that the Department of Agriculture state they have been in communication with the carrying companies. The Department say that all but sixty boxes which reached 458 Dublin late for shipment were dispatched from North Wall yesterday. These sixty boxes are going forward to-day.