§ DR. MACGREGORI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury if the Government will consider the desirability of encouraging Local Authorities, by means of loans and otherwise, to plant the waste moorland in the Highlands and other parts of the country, thereby creating work for thousands of the unemployed besides the future advantages of profit and improvement of climate, &c.; and will the Government, with as little delay as possible, initiate legislation for this purpose?
§ MR. W. E. GLADSTONEThe important subject to which my hon. Friend refers has been taken special notice of by the Commission now sitting on lands in the Highlands. That being so, it is obviously our duty to wait and see what may be reported on the subject by that Commission.