HC Deb 10 May 1906 vol 156 c1480
MR. WEIR

I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland, in view of the fact that the crofters of Garrabost, Island of Lewis, to whom skinned lands, that is land from which the peats have been removed, were recently offered for the enlargement of the agricultural land of their crofts, are mainly widows and old men unable to undertake the arduous work of bringing the land into cultivation, will the land be offered to the cottars in the district who are chiefly young men well able and willing to cope with the labour involved.

MR. SINCLAIR

It is not intended to offer the land in question to cottars seeing that it is already in the occupation of crofters for grazing purposes and therefore not at the disposal of the landlord.