§ SIR THOMAS ESMONDE (Wexford, N.)To ask the Lord Advocate how much money out of public funds has been spent respectively on the harbours of Wick, Fraserburgh, and Peterhead.
(Answered by Mr. Scott Dickson.) The Public Works Loan Commissioners have advanced to the Wick and Pulteney Town Harbour Trustees £125,000 (of which sum, however, a large amount was expended on the breakwater which was totally destroyed by storms, and was remitted by The Public Works Loans Act, 1902); the Fraserburgh Harbour Commissioners, £195,000; the Peterhead Harbour Trustees, £72,000. A grant of £11,745 has also been paid to the Fraserburgh Hariour Commissioners.