§ MR. J. D. WHITE (Dumbartonshire)To ask the Secretary for Scotland what were taken as the annual values for rating at the time of their purchase by the Admiralty in or about 1903, of the 911½ acres of land and 236 acres of foreshore at Rosyth, purchased from Lord Linlithgow for £ 112,250; of the adjacent property of 266 acres of land and 50 acres of foreshore purchased from Mr. Newton for £ 22,500; and of the adjacent 6 ¼ acres of land purchased from the Minister of Inverkeithing and Mr. Newton jointly for £ 4,800, respectively.
(Answered by Mr. Sinclair.) The total rental of the lands acquired by the Lords of the Admiralty from the Marquess of Linlithgow in 1903 was £ 1,321 19s. 2d., from Mr. Newton in the same year £ 335 3s. 8d., and the rental of the glebe lands of Inverkeithing. the greater part of which was acquired by the Lords of the Admiralty, was £ 16. The extent of the foreshore is not shown in the valuation roll, nor can the acreage given in the Question be guaranteed.