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BILINGUAL NEWSPAPER OF CURRENT EVENTS IN THE HIGHLANDS AND THE ISLANDS AND IN SCOTLAND
SRUTH
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DI-ARDAOIN, 1 LATHA DE’N CHEITEAN
THURSDAY, 1st MAY 1969
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Early morning scene on Loch Maree with the motor boats ready to take fishermen on
the 13 reaches on the loch.
Anxiety About Highland Development
A vast reduction in the iiom the Midlands and the tne proposals and resolutions
HlDB's area confining it to bouth-hast ot England could before them, is it not time we
the Moray Birtn area only bring about a cut-down in in An Comunn Gaidhealach,
was visualised by Prot. ]omi tne development areas. uecided to make this confer-
P. Macintosh, Labour ME for x:ie cost Der job criteria ence and not the AGM held
Berwick and East Lothian use(j to gauge developments on the Saturday following the
when he addressed delegates in other areas should not be Mod, our policy-making
at An Comunn Gaidnealach’s uSecj f0r the Highlands, forum.” It was unanimously
annual conference on Satur- where the money spent wa^ agreed to propose the neces-
day, 19th April, in Oban. developing and preserving sary amendment to the con-
Prof. Macintosh said: “The community life. stitution.
future of the H1DB is not to Local government reor- On Saturday morning with
my mind, and looking at it ganisation could result m Oban basking in brilliant sun-
from either Edinburgh or three units being formed in shine, Mr I. R. Mackay intro-
London, entirely assured for the Highlands, North, South, duced Dr Iain Skewis, head of
a number of reasons.” and Orkney and Shetland, the HIDB’s Tourism and
He was considering the Alternatively one unit res- Transport Division, who gave
possibility of the return to ponsible for all major ser- ^ tal.k on “ Tourism in the
power of the Conservatives vices could replace the exist- Gaelic-speaking Areas.” Dr
after the next General Elec- ing bodies serving the area. Skewis intimated that the
tion. “The Conservatives are The Outer Isles for example, are interested in con-
attached to the idea that de- could become a second tier sidering the possibility of
velopment area powers are unit. helping to promote the Mod
spreadjop widely. It is likely The conference was atten as a tourist attraction that
that in the event of a Con- ded by about 50 delegate^ w°uld help to extend the
servative win the Highland from branches and affiliated tourist season in the High-
Development Hoard would societies from places as far ,, .s: _
be given the Moray Firth apart as Thurso and Ayr. ' Already Gaelic language
area only to develop,” he In his opening remarks to anc^ culture are playing a part
said. the conference, the president, tourism in the area, Dr
Some economic planners Rev. A. M. Beaton, had this Skewis pointed out. Local
would like to see the High- to say “ Considering the sue- branches of the association
lands as a large afforested cess of the Perth conference c°uld show their interest by
area, he added, with a few jn 1968 and the numbers who becoming involved in the area
centres for tourism. This are attending this session tourism organisations now be-
school of thought together with a reasonable time in in8 set UP throughout the
with mounting pressures which to consider and digest (Continued on page four)
SGOILEAN UR R0
BHEAU
Tha gearan air eirigh an
Siorrachd Rois gu bheil cuid
de na sgoilean ura thatar a’
togail ro bheag. Mar eisimpleir
air an seo dh’innis An t-Urr.
Mcrchadh MacNeacail do
chomhairlie an fhoghluim, san
t-siorrachd gu bheil an sgoil tha
dol an arda an ceart-uair sa’
Mhonadh Dhubh ma thrath ro
bheag airson an aireamh
chloinne tha ’sa choimhears-
naich.
Cosgaidh an sgoil £115,000
agus bidh co dhiubh da sheomar
a bharrachd air na th’ imte
gam feum.
Thuirt Mgr. R. Inglis, fear
stiuiridh an fhoghluim nach
biodh feum air seomar a
chaidh a chuir air leth airson
clann nach eil comh-lionta
smuara h-eireagh aireamh un
t-sluaigh gu robh e de’n
bheachd gu foghnadh na bha
de sheomair r’an seachnadh an
eeart-uair.
Air a’ bhonn gu bheil tidsear
an Sgoil Tharradail ’sa’ Mhon¬
adh Dhubh aig nach eil seomai
san teagasg i ghabh a Chomh-
airle os laimh oidhirp a dhean-
amh air meudachadh a chuir
ris an sgoil mun teid a
criochnachadh.
Tha mu 250 a’ dol do’n sgoil
an drasda agus. a reir, Mgr.
Inglis feumar dearbhadh do
Roinn an Fhoghlum gum bi
ardachadh an sluagh a bhaile
mu’n cur iadJ an aonta ris a’
sgoil a meudachadh.
Chan eil e ’na annas a bhith
chuinntinn mu sgoil a tha ro
bheag ga togail an siud ’san seo
ach bidh iongantas air daoine
de an dearbhadh as urrainn
daoine dhecnamh air am feum-
alach ’san t-.seadh seo ach gu
bheil barrachd chloinne a’dol
do ’n sgoil air na tha dh-aite
’ga thogail dhaibh.
I DE’ NIS
Tha miltean de luchd-
| teagasg gun an ainmean a chuir
I n regisdear an G.T.C. ged is
W aK’diugh an latba deireannach
a th’aca airson sin a dhean-
amh.
An uiridh bha thairis air
50,000 air na leabhraichean ach
bha faisg air 19,000 de’n sin a
ihith an de.
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