§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether the Secretary for Scotland has received a copy of a Resolution passed at a meeting of the inhabitants of the Point district of the Island of Lewis, urging the Government to close the Minch against trawlers by rendering trawling illegal between Barra Head and Cape Wrath; and will he say what action it is proposed to take in the matter.
§ * THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. A. GRAHAM MURRAY,) ButeshireThe answer to the first paragraph of the hon. Member's Question is in the affirmative. That to the second is that no authority exists to make the bye-laws suggested, and that as the Secretary for Scotland is not satisfied that a case has been made out for the restrictions indicated he does not propose to take any action at present. He endeavoured to explain the position of matters more fully than can be done in reply to a Question in this House in a letter to Mr. Morrison, a copy of which will be sent to the hon. Member.