§ * MR. CATHCART WASON (Orkney and Shetland)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade if his attention has been directed to the paragraph in the Report of the Congested Districts Board for Scotland, 1902, which states-that in the cases of Rova Head and Symbister Ness, in Zetland, the Commissioners were unable to sanction the placing of lights by anyone except a properly constituted lighthouse authority, 189 on account of the importance of these situations as regards general navigation; and if he will, in view of the importance of these lights, grant the necessary permission to the Northern Lighthouse Commissioners to erect the same.
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURMy attention has not been previously called to the Report. No determination with regard to this matter has yet been made, but the Board of Trade are fully alive to the importance of the question, and hope to be able to communicate their decision to the Trinity House in the course of a few days.