§ Mr. MACLEANasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he is aware that the Board of Agriculture granted to Lord Macdonald's trustees a lease of the sporting rights of Scorrybreck estate, Skye; that complaints have been received regarding the burning of heather and the taking of rabbits by the settlers; if the interests of the Board's sporting tenants and the Board's agricultural tenants are identical with regard to the right to take rabbits; and whether the agricultural tenants are prohibited from taking rabbits and from burning heather?
§ Sir J. GILMOURIt was a condition of the sale to the Board of Scorrybreck that they should grant a lease of the sporting rights to Lord Macdonald's curator bonis. Complaint that heather had been burned maliciously was made last year by the sporting tenant, hut the authors of the damage could not be traced. Complaint was also made that holders were trapping rabbits on the common pasture. The holders and the sporting tenant have concurrent right to take rabbits on the holdings with the exception of the common pasture on which the Board are advised the Ground Game Acts give the holders no right to take rabbits. The conditions of Let restrict heather horning by holders to one-tenth1936W yearly of the heather area under the control of the Board and the sporting tenant.