§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the provisions of the Light Railways Act are such as to render the construction of a light railway in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland impracticable without liberal local assistance; and, seeing that no such help is available in districts such as that between Garve and Ullapool, Rossshire, will he consider the expediency of introducing legislation with a view to render the Treasury grants for the construction of light railways in the crofting counties of a more liberal character than at present.
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE BOARD OF TRADE (Mr. KEARLEY,) DevonportThe requirement of local assistance as a condition of a Treasury advance in furtherance of the construction of light railways seems to be a sound one, and there appears to be no ground for amending the existing law in the direction indicated in the Question.