HC Deb 04 May 1897 vol 48 cc1513-4
SIR WILLIAM WEDDERBURN (Banffshire)

To call attention to the urgent need for Improved Harbour Accommodation for fishermen on the coasts of Scotland; and to move, "That, looking to the dangers now arising to the lives and property of fishermen from insufficient harbour accommodation, and looking to the admitted inadequacy of the present grant for fishery harbours, Her Majesty's Government should assign to the Scottish Fishery Board public funds sufficient to meet this need, and should readjust the financial relations between the Treasury and the Scottish fishing industry on a basis not less favourable than that existing at the beginning of the century."—[Tuesday, 1st June.]