§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether he is aware that on the 1st November last a complaint was lodged with Captain Munro, Chief Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland, to the effect that on the morning of the 15th October a traction engine, bearing the name John Campbell, timber merchant, Inverness, No.2, was driven along the road at Muir of Ord, Ross-shire, without the usual precaution warning the public of its approach; and will he explain why no remonstrance has been addressed to the owner of the engine on the subject.
* MR. A. GRAHAM MURRAYI am informed that the complaint lodged with Captain Munro was duly communicated to the Chief Constable of the county, who obtained a report on the matter which he laid before the clerk of the road authority, who acts as prosecutor under the Locomotives Acts. The facts, however, were not considered such as to justify a prosecution. I am to add that it is no part of the duties of Captain Munro, Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland, to deal with complaints.