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Show WASTE IS GREAT IN I IRISH FISHING PORTS Demoralized Condition of Transporta tion Is Said to Be Causing Heavy Losses. CORK, Ireland, May 19 (Correspondence (Correspon-dence of the Associated Press). Although Al-though politicians and newspapers in England are talking about food famine, thousands of barrels of excellent food are going to waste in the Irish fishing ports, owing to the haphazard and demoralized de-moralized conditions of transport. Catches around Cork and Kerry have never been so large as this season, but fishermen often find it impossible to dispose of their catches profitably, although al-though the prices ruling in England are double those of normal times. Eailways in the southwest of Ireland decline to receive consignments of fish this year unless the charges are prepaid, pre-paid, and, as the fishermen are mostly not men of capital and unused to this method of doing business; this has meant in practice a prohibition of traffic. traf-fic. Another hindrance to shipments has been the impossibility at many places of getting crates or barrels to contain fish bound for the markets. In normal nor-mal times the empty crates were returned re-turned in three days or less, but at present "empties" are often as many weeks en route. Last week $10,000 worth of fish belonging be-longing to a single shipper was allowed to spoil on the freight platforms here, the railway refusing to take it owing to some congestion of shipping between Ireland and England. |