HC Deb 21 February 1870 vol 199 c587
SIR ROBERT ANSTRUTHER

said, he wished to ask the Secretary to the Board of Trade, Whether any Report has been received by the Board of Trade as to the nature and extent of the damage done to the Harbours now in course of construction at Wick and Anstruther by the recent gales; and if he will state from what funds the cost of such damage will be made good?

MR. SHAW-LEFEVRE

said, in reply, that the harbours of Wick and An-struther were not under the management of the Board of Trade, and they had received no other report of the damages done to them than through the public papers. The works at Wick had, he believed, been constructed by the British Fishery Company, assisted by a loan from the Public Works Loan Commissioners. The harbour of Anstruther had been constructed out of public money by the Scotch Fishery Board; but he was unable to say out of what funds either of those works would be repaired.