§ Sir JOHN RANDLESasked the Secretary to the Treasury if he is prepared to make grants in support of fishery investigations on the Lancashire and Cumberland coast, similar to those made for Scottish and Irish administration and investigation, and remedy the condition of affairs which imposes the whole expense of sea fisheries on the Cumberland coast on local rates, whilst on the other side of the Solway Imperial funds are available?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEI do not see any sufficient reason in present circumstances for initiating a change of the policy adopted by Parliament in the Sea Fisheries Act. 1888, under which local authorities in Eng land and Wales are empowered to rate themselves for the purposes of the Act.