§ 18. Mr. Mathersasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps are being taken to deal with the flooding of crofts and houses, in a place of which he has been informed, owing to failure to clear watercourses, especially on a certain estate; and when it is expected that effective remedies will be applied to prevent valuable productive land from being ruined?
Mr. JohnstonOperations were begun by the landlord last autumn to counteract flooding on the lands referred to in the Question, but any effective remedy will probably involve work on a much larger and more costly scale than was originally contemplated. The engineering and financial problems will be investigated at once.