§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade, in view of the fact that the conditions under which applications for grants in aid of harbours in Scotland are entertained by the Committee appointed in 1899 are of such a nature as to cause applications from Portmahomack, Broad Bay, and Valots, Ross-shire, to be rejected, will he consider the expediency of arranging for the regulations to be relaxed so that it may be practicable for grants in aid of harbours to be obtained by the local authorities for places such as the three above indicated.
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURI must refer the hon. Member to my reply to his question on 22nd April last, in which I stated that the Treasury were not prepared to relax the regulations under which grants in aid are made to harbours.