§ MR. FRASER-MACKINTOSH (Inverness-shire)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether he is aware that the Secretary for Scotland has received repeated complaints from crofters in the Islands of Boreray, Benbecula, and other places in the Outer Hebrides, to the effect that extension of holdings, granted them under the Crofters' Act, has been suspended for two years by appeals on the part of the landlords; and whether he will be so good as to use his influence to insure an immediate sitting of a full Court of the Commissioners to dispose of the appeals, and prevent the crofters losing for another season the full benefits of the extension granted?
§ * THE LORD ADVOCATE (Sir C. J. PEARSON,) Edinburgh and St. Andrews UniversitiesI am informed that the Secretary for Scotland has received an application from some crofters in Benbecula desiring him to make arrangements for an early hearing of certain appeals, which have only recently been lodged, against orders made at the end of last December, and I have to inform the hon. Member that these appeals will be heard as soon as the Commissioners have disposed of other more urgent business. No applications have been received from the other districts mentioned in the question.