MR. CATHCART WASONI beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland what steps the Fishery Board for Scotland are taking to insist that sanitation and cleanliness will be rigorously carried out at the whaling stations, and especially if masses of decaying matter will be consumed by fire or chemicals, and not allowed to float about the voes, destroying the mussel beds and gravely injuring the homes of the people.
§ THE SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND (Mr. SINCLAIR,) ForfarshireThe duty of seeing that these stations are kept in a sanitary condition is primarily a matter for the local authority and their officers, and in the event of their default it will be the duty of the Local Government Board to interfere. I may add that the bye-laws framed by the local authorities for regulating the business carried on at these stations provide for the prevention of offensive material being deposited in or allowed to escape into the sea.
MR. CATHCART WASONThe Board can grant a subsidy for fishery cruisers; can it not also give local authorities one for this object?
§ MR. SINCLAIRWe have no authority to do so under the statute.