§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Lord Advocate, having regard to the fact that the Irish Congested Districts Board make arrangements for the purchase of large quantities of fish from fishermen in the congested area, will the Congested Districts Board for Scotland consider the expediency of making similar arrangements for the purchase of fish in the remote parts of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland during those months of the year when the fish curers are not buyers.
§ * MR. A. G. MURRAYThe conditions under which the fishing industry has been carried out in Scotland for upwards of a century are so different from what has recently been attempted in Ireland that there can be no useful comparison where the circumstances are so widely different. I am informed by the Fishery Board that no complaints have reached the fishery authorities in Scotland of lack of fish buyers in the Highlands; and that a considerable number of such buyers are men residing permanently in the locality.