§ 54. Mr. RAMSAYasked the Minister of Agriculture if he is aware that no official representative was sent from the mainland to the island of St. Kilda to supervise sheep-dipping operations from 1923 till June, 1930, and, if so, can he give any reason for such a neglect?
§ Mr. HAYES (Vice-Chamberlain of the Household)My right hon. Friend is informed by the local authority of the county of Inverness-shire that the last occasion on which the dipping of sheep in the island of St. Kilda was officially supervised was in June, 1923. Visits of the police were subsequently made to the island in July, 1925, May, 1928, and on the 12th June, 1930, but owing to the extremely difficult conditions it was found impossible to have the sheep dipped. My right hon. Friend desires me to add that there is no evidence of the presence of sheep scab in the island.