HC Deb 24 March 1908 vol 186 cc1220-1
MR. WEIR

I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland whether he has any information to the effect that the wives, sisters, and daughters of thirty-five landless cottars have taken forcible possession of that part of the farm of Ealigarry in Barra, known as Vaselin, the property of Messrs. William and Murdock M'Gillivray; and will he state whether the Government propose to take any steps to secure land for the landless cottars in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

MR. SINCLAIR

For the reply to the first part of my hon. friend's Question, I beg to refer him to the reply given to the Question of the hon. Member for North-west Lanark. The Government are fully alive to the desirability of improving the position of the landless cottars in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.