Mr. DUNDAS WHITEasked the Lord Advocate with reference to the property of 387 acres of land and 240 acres of foreshore at Crombie, in Fifeshire, on the Firth of Forth, which was purchased by the Admiralty for £30,000 for a magazine establishment in March, 1909, if he could say what was being taken as the annual value for rating of that property at the time of that purchase, or, if that property formed part of a larger subject, by how much the annual value for rating of that larger subject had been reduced in consequence of the severance of the purchased portion?
§ The SOLICITOR-GENERAL for SCOTLAND (Mr. A. Dewar)I understand that the land referred to formed part of two farms which were entered in the valuation roll at a total value of £997. In consequence of the severance that total has been reduced by £522.