HC Deb 20 March 1902 vol 105 cc549-50
MR. WEIR

I beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether the Congested Districts Board are acquainted with the results of the recent experiments with weight-Carrying motor cars; and, in view of the difficulty experienced in conveying to the Stornoway Market the fish landed at Carloway and caught on the fishing beds off the western shores of the Island of Lewis, will the Board consider the expediency of placing a motor car on the road from Carloway to Stornoway; and, in view of the fact that it has not been found practicable to construct a light railway between Garve and Ullapool, will a motor car be also placed on that road.

* THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. A. GRAHAM MURRAY,) Buteshire

I am informed by the Congested Districts Board that they do not know to what recent experiments the hon. Member refers, but in any case, they do not, having regard to their own present experience, propose to subsidise any such schemes as are mentioned in the Question.