§ MR. HARMSWORTHTo ask the Lord - Advocate whether the Fishery 906 Board for Scotland are to be empowered to make loans or advances for the purchase of large herring boats, such as are now necessary for the successful prosecution of the herring fishery, to approved crews of fishermen in Caithness and Sutherland on the share system, as recommended by the Departmental Committee on the Sea Fisheries of Sutherland and Caithness.
(Answered by Mr. Scott Dickson.) The Secretary for Scotland is in correspondence with the Fishery Board and to e Treasury in reference to the question of provision of boats for fishermen in the crofting counties on the share system, and hopes to be in a position to make an early announcement on the subject.