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THE COCKLE INDUSTRY. I

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THE COCKLE INDUSTRY. I Ferryside Fishermen Object to the f Bye-laws. Considerable interest was evinced in a case heard at Carmarthen on Saturday, when the South Wales Sea, Fisheries Ccm- mittee proceeded tigpiiipt. a, number of cockle-fishermen from Ferryside, Llansaint and Latigharne. gome cf whom wei-e charged with remoring- from the cockle-bede cockles that would pass through a gauge having all aperture tli-ieequarters of an inch equare, contrary to the committer's 'bye-la, we; others with udtng a cart in iLihing for cockles, contrary to the rommitt-ee'e bye-lawe; and some with both offences. The defendants were Henry Dai ton, Thoe. Powell, Richard Davic<3, Thomas Davies, Elizabeth Jenkins, Titus Joiiec-, Margaret Davies, Thoma; Jone-s, and Margaret Ann Marks, there being-in. all thirteen sum- monses. 31 r. Trevor Hunter (instructed by Mr. A. Il, Deer, eolk'itor, Port Talbot) ap- pealed for the prosecutor, and Mr. Clark Williams (instructed by Mt. Hamilton W. Cra.wford, solicitor, Llanelly and Ftrryeid'Sj for the defendants. Mr. Trevor Hunter, commenting on the bye-laws contravened, stated that it had beton found on scientific enquiry that cockles as a rule did not breed until they grew to a Larger size than tlirecqua rters of an inch. It had aico been found that, when oart.s wer, wheeled over cockle-heda it had the result of cniahing of the cockles, and if one cockle was cru&hed it got diseased and it putrified and spread infection very rapidly, with the res alt that the whole bed might be spoiled. It might also spread from one bed to another, and the whole cockle industry ruined. The committee's bye-lawe were therefore foT the protection of the cockle fisliermen themecive^. Mr. Hunter snbmittetl that a contention that a gauge of threequarters of a,n inch square was too much could not be raised in that co-art aB a defence. Capt. Stephen Lloyd Francis, Swansea (superintendent of the South Wales Sea Fisheries district) said that on September .I 1- -="'n..J 1.n7>r1. "l-n. llr. a.T:' --t\)L). (nn ne VJBlieu rciijcmc, nu.c1.1j uu o.< i, "1.1.1. defendant, Henry Dalton, on the cockle bed with N pony and cavt and ohe-and-a-half bags of cockles. Witness examined the cockles by his three-quarter-inch gauge, and found that twenty-five, per cent, of the forty or fifty cockles lie tbsted passed through the gaucte. On November 2nd he again saw Dalton on the cockle beds with two hags of cocklos and a horse and cart. Of the two or three handfuls of cockles which witness tested ninety per cent. were undersized, and passed through the gauge. Mr. Clark Williams: Will you agree that the cockle industry in this district is as flourishing now as. ever it was?—I think it is very good now. The presiding magistrate (Mr. Dudley Drummond) baid this evidence should to submitted to the Fisheries Committee or the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. Mr. Clark Williams maintained that the question of the unreasonableness of the bye- laws was a question for the court. The presiding magistrate said the bye- Iaws had been approved of and had-» become law, and whether they were reasonable < not was not for the justices to decide, but for the Fisher it a Committee and the Board of Agriculture. Mr. Clark Williams: If we cannot get 9- fincling that the bye-laws are unreasonable, of course we must go to the Fisheries Com- mittee, and 1 suggest that these cases should stand over umil we have an oppor- tunity of doing that. Mr. Hunter concurred. The Fisheries Committee, he said, were looking after the interests of the cockle fishermen them- selves. If the Fisheries Committee came to the conclusion that there was no substance in,"the men's complaint the cases would come before the Bench again, but if the committee thought there was substance in it there would be nothing more heard of the cases. The committee wished the cockle fishermen to know that they were ready to I receive representations from them at any time, and that they were anxious to Help ¡ them in any way. 7 The cases were then adjourned till April I 3rd.

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