§ MR. WATTI beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland whether he is aware that many valuation assessors for counties in Scotland are resident many miles from the towns and burghs where their work of assessing for valuation has to be done; that it is in many instances impossible for these officials to even see the premises which they are called upon to value; and whether in these circumstances he will appoint local assessors in each town or burgh and divide among these the salaries at present paid to men resident in burghs inconveniently situated for carrying on the work.
§ MR. SINCLAIRNo complaints in the sense suggested have reached me. With regard to the latter part of the Question I may remind my hon. friend that the appointment of local assessors does not rest with me but with county and town councils.