§ SIR WILLIAM WEDDERBURNI beg to ask the Lord Advocate (1) whether practical inconvenience has been experienced in filling up casual vacancies 503 in parish councils under the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1894; and (2) whether he would be disposed to regard favourably a short Bill brought in to provide that casual burghal vacancies shall be filled up by the burghal members of the council, and casual vacancies in the Landward Committee by the members of the Landward Committee?
§ *THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. GRAHAM MURRAY,) ButeshireThe Secretary for Scotland is aware of one or two cases where some inconvenience has occurred in the present method of filling vacancies in landward committees, he has not heard of any other difficulty or inconvenience. In reply to the second paragraph of the Question he must reserve his opinion until he sees the terms of the Bill, but would favourably consider a Bill confined to dealing with the difficulty which has actually occurred.