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could not be satisfactorily treated without a detailed inquiry such 

 as there had not been opportunity of making since the Board was 

 constituted ; and we had intended to institute such an investigation, 

 on being authorised by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's 

 Treasury to incur any necessary expense connected therewith. 

 Since that time, however, a select Committee of the House of Com- 

 mons has been engaged in inquiring into the harbour accommo- 

 dation on the coasts of the United Kingdom, having regard to the 

 laws and arrangements under which the construction and improve- 

 ment of harbours may now be effected, and it has therefore seemed 

 to us undesirable, at least for the present, that the investigation we 

 had proposed to make should be prosecuted. At the same time, we 

 think it right to bring under your notice the fact that pressing 

 applications have been made to us to assist in the construction or 

 improvement of fishery harbours at the following places, viz. : — 



10. 



11. 



12. 



Findoclity, . 

 Ness, . . . 

 Crovie, . . 

 PortErrol, . 

 Fair Isle, 

 St Andrews, 

 Kinlochbervie, 

 Balintore, 

 Stonehaven, . 

 Scoraig, . . 

 Portknockie, 

 Stroma Island, 



Banffshire. 



Island of Lewis. 



Banffshire. 



Aberdeenshire. 



Shetland. 



Fifeshire. 



Sntherlandshire. 



Koss-shire. 



Kincardineshire. 



Koss-shire. 



Banffshire. 



Pentland Firth. 



13. Eyemouth, . 



14. Waternish, . 



15. Broadford, . 



16. Lochbuy, 



17. Coldingham, 



18. Ballantrae, . 



19. PortHopeman, 



20. Bnrnmouth, . 



21. Girvan, . . 



22. St Monance, 



23. Foula Island, 



Berwickshire. 



Island of Skye. 



Island of Skye. 



Island of Mull. 



Berwickshire. 



Ayrshire. 



Elginshire. 



Berwickshire 



Ayrshire. 



Fifeshire. 



Shetland. 



Harbours. 



tion of new 

 ones. 

 Detailed 

 Inquiry neces- 

 sary. 



Delayed, as 

 Parliamentary 

 Committee 

 had been 

 appointed. 



Applications 

 made regarding 

 Harbours. 



Harbours for 

 which Money 

 has been 

 asked. 



Of these Harbours, looking at the limited funds placed at our Harbours 

 disposal, we selected and have only seen our way to give assistance 

 in the cases of 



Findoclity, 

 Ness, 

 Crovie, . 

 St Monance, 



Banffshire. 

 Island of Lewis. 

 Banffshire. 

 Fifeshire. 



leers 

 Report. 



But some of the others are very clamant cases, and it would have 

 been a matter of the greatest satisfaction to us had we been in a 

 position to aid them also. 



For particulars regarding the harbour works in progress under Reference to 

 our supervision, we beg to refer to the Engineers' Report in j^gjjJJ 

 Appendix E, in which Appendix will also be found an account 

 of the amounts we received and paid last year for building and 

 repairing piers and harbours, together with a statement of the 

 sums received, ex herring brand fees, for harbours, and telegraphic 

 extension to remote fishery districts. 



As stated in the Engineers' Eeport, the construction of a harbour Ness Harbour 

 at Ness, in the island of Lewis, which is fully more than half built, 

 continues to be vigorously prosecuted ; and it is anticipated that, 

 should the present season prove favourable, it will be finished in 

 the course of this year. The fishermen are looking forward with 

 great interest to the completion of this harbour, and have frequently 

 expressed much gratitude for what is being done. Hitherto, when 

 the boats arrived from the fishing grounds, in order to land their 

 fish, they had to be hauled up on the beach with the assistance of 



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