§ Captain WARINGasked the Secretary for Scotland whether he is aware that the scheme of the Banff District Committee for supplying water to the village of White-hills involves a rate which the inhabitants of the village will be unable to pay, and that the ratepayers of the district are practically unanimously opposed to the scheme; and will he cause an inquiry to be made into the whole subject before the scheme is finally sanctioned by the Local Government Board?
Mr. McKINNON WOODThe Local Government Board for Scotland have already made full inquiry into the matter, and recommended a loan for the White-hills water supply scheme from the Public Works Loan Board. Before making that recommendation, they had under consideration petitions from certain ratepayers objecting to the cost of the proposed scheme, but they were satisfied that the scheme was necessary, and that the cost would not be excessive.