§ MR. WEIR (ROSS and Cromarty)To ask the Lord-Advocate if he will state 644 what progress has been made by the Congested Districts Board with the scheme for apprenticing boys to trades; will he state how many boys have been apprenticed; and from what districts they come.
(Answered by Mr. Scott Dickson.) Of 100 applications received forty-one boys have been offered places. Several of these have refused, and others have not yet finally intimated their decision. Twenty-two have actually started work, and come from the following localities:—
Sixteen Lewis boys have been offerec situations, and six have accepted.
- Six from Barra;
- Three from South Uist;
- One from North Uist;
- One from Harris;
- Four from Ross (Mainland);
- Five from Ross (Lewis);
- One from Sutherland.