§ MR. WEIRTo ask the President of the Board of Trade whether the proposed scheme for four lighted buoys and one lighted beacon for marking the channel off Avoch, Ross-shire, has yet been sanctioned; and, if so can he say when the work will be commenced.
(Answer.) I understand that it is agreed that the proposed works would be of service to the locality, and I have no doubt they will be undertaken when circumstances permit. But there is so much pressure upon the finances of the General Lighthouse Fund for payment for urgent works of more use to the shipping trade generally that I cannot promise that the expense for the lighting of this channel will be sanctioned during the present financial year.—(Board of Trade.)