HC Deb 28 March 1917 vol 92 cc411-2
74. Mr. O'LEARY

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether the Cork, Bandon, and South Coast Railway Company have proposed to supply only a limited number of wagons for the conveyance of fish from Baltimore to Cork and other markets this season; and, seeing that a failure on the part of the railway-company to supply an adequate number of wagons will seriously handicap the fishing industry in the Baltimore district, where hundreds of poor families are dependent on it for a livelihood, will he see that facilities for marketing the fish are not curtailed by the railway company?

Mr. ROBERTS

I am not aware of the circumstances to which the hon. Gentleman refers, but I will look into the matter.

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