§ 41. Mr. N. MACLEANasked the Secretary for Scotland whether he has received a resolution from the Parliamentary Committee of the Scottish Trades Union Congress expressing its indignation at the-dismissal from employment of a large number of ex-service men and others in the Island of Lewis because other ox-servicemen in need of lands and houses have-occupied certain parts of farms alleged to be the property of Lord Loverhulme; and whether he will give an undertaking that the Island of Lewis shall be made-no exception in the administration of the Land Settlement and other Acts of Parliament passed for the purpose of settling ex-service men and others on the land, and that no further delay shall take place-in making the larger farms on the island available for small holdings and homes for such of the people of Lewis as desire, land?
§ Mr. MUNROThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. I am at present in communication with Lord Leverhulme in regard to the position in the Lews, the difficulties of which I fully appreciate. I am endeavouring to find the solution which will be most in the interest of the community as a whole.