§ 70. Mr. WATTasked the Secretary for Scotland whether the University College, Dundee, through the University of St. Andrew's, receives an annual Grant from the Exchequer towards payment of professors' salaries; whether one of these professors receives a second salary for his services on the Fishery Board of Scotland; what do the two salaries amount to; and is it proposed to continue these in war time in view of the fact that fishing and investigation in the the North Sea are impossible owing to Admiralty restrictions?
Mr. McKINNON WOODThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. I understand that the salary of the professor referred to is almost entirely 1370 paid from a special endowment. His allowance from the Fishery Board is £400, and his university emoluments amount to £600. Although North Sea fishing is restricted, there are large accumulations of material which continues to be dealt with, besides special statistics which are kept up as part of the British share in the international work. I may explain that the professor's allowance is paid to him not as scientific member of the Board, but as supervising the conduct of the Scottish portion of the international investigations. This duty has involved a great amount of laborious and detailed work which did not fall upon his predecessors in office on the Fishery Board and which he could not be expected to do without special remuneration.