§ Mr. WATTasked what was the valuation placed on the roll this year by the Greenock assessor on the slipyard already on the foreshore at Battery Point, Cardwell Bay, Firth of Clyde; what was the number of square yards of ground in that yard; and how many square yards were in the land reclaimed from the sea there in the last five years?
§ The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Ure)The annual value of the land in question, as entered in the Valuation Roll, is in addition to which the assessor has entered in the Roll £30 as the annual value of the structures. The Valuation Roll does not specify the area of the several subjects, and I have no information as regards either the area of the property in question or the area reclaimed from the ea there during the last five years.
§ Mr. GEORGE YOUNGERIs it not in this, as in most cases, a mere matter of opinion on the part of the valuers?
§ Mr. WATTIs the Scottish Office aware that, the reclaimed land is three or four times the size of the land valued in the Assessment Roll at, £12?