§ 17. Sir A. SINCLAIRasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how the price of transfer of the five-year-old ewes was fixed under the special agreement with the purchaser of the Erribol sheep stock?
§ Sir J. GILMOURThe price of the five-year-old ewes transferred to the purchaser of Erribol estate was fixed at the average of the prices realised by the Board of Agriculture for the cast ewes.
§ Sir A. SINCLAIRIs it not extraordinary that the price of these younger classes should be fixed by the price received for the old cast ewes being sold off the farm?
§ Mr. SPEAKERThat is a matter of agricultural opinion.
§ 18. Sir A. SINCLAIRasked the Secretary of State for Scotland at what amount the Erribol sheep stock was valued by the Board of Agriculture for Scotland in their accounts as at Whitsunday, 1925, and Whitsunday, 1926, respectively; and whether acclimitisation value is included in both these valuations?
§ Sir J. GILMOURThe answer to the first part of the question is: at Whitsunday, 1925, £20,954; at Whitsunday, 1926, £17,808 2s. 6d. The answer to the second part of the question is in the negative.
§ Sir A. SINCLAIRIs not the fact that these sheep were valued at £20,000 in 1925, at £17,000 in 1926, and were finally sold for less than £10,000, sufficient justification for the large number of questions that have been put on the Paper?
§ Lieut.-Colonel HOWARD-BURYIs not this case a great warning as to the dangers of adopting the Liberal land policy?
§ Sir A. SINCLAIRIs it not the fact that the Secretary of State for Scotland has adopted the Liberal land policy?
§ Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGECan the right hon. Gentleman say how much longer this volcano is going to be allowed to erupt?