§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland, in view of the fact that some of the landless cottars in the Island of Lewis who are living in insanitary and otherwise uninhabitable houses in some of the townships have recently built substantial stone houses at their own expense on the waste lands of the crofters' common grazing whereby the congestion of such insanitary townships is relieved, will he consider the expediency of urging the proprietor to grant titles at fair rents to such cottars, especially having regard to the fact that the construction of white stone houses materially relieves the local authorities of their duties in regard to the administration of the Public Health (Scotland) Acts, the provisions of which are at present ignored in every one of the townships in the island.
§ MR. SINCLAIRI am not prepared at present to adopt the course suggested by the hon. Member.