§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland whether the Northern Lights Commission has recommended the erection of a lighthouse on the Flannan Islands, off the west coast of the Island of Lewis; and whether that recommendation has been sanctioned by the Board of Trade; if so, whether any steps have been taken to carry out the work?
§ SIR G. TREVELYANThe Northern Lights Commissioners inform me that their recommendation to erect a lighthouse on the Flannan Islands was recently approved and the erection sanctioned by the Board of Trade when the state of the Mercantile Marine will admit of it. No steps have as yet been taken towards its construction.