§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland whether his attention has been called to a letter which appeared in The Scottish Highlander of the 7th instant, signed by the Rev. Donald A. Macdonald, of Kilmuir, Skye, in which he states that he has recently visited the Park district of the Island of Lewis, and has no hesitation in saying that there is no locality in the Highlands where a public road is more urgently needed; and whether the Government propose to take the necessary steps to remedy this state of matters?
§ SIR G. TREVELYANI have seen the letter, and am well aware of the necessity there is for new roads in the Park district, as well as in other remote districts of the Highlands and Islands. But the hon. Member must bear in mind that a large proportion of last year's Government grant for footpaths in Ross-shire was devoted to those in the Lews.