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BI-LINGUAL NEWSPAPER OF CURRENT EVENTS IN THE HIGHLANDS AND THE ISLANDS AND IN SCOTLAND
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Some of the delegates who attended the Conference on Highland Industrial Development
recently. The Conference was organised by the S.N.P. Highlands Area Council and the Party’s
Industrial Devlopment Committee. The photograph includes Donald Barr (S.N.P. Prospective
Candidate for Caithness and Sutherland—back row, third from left), and Tom Howe (Prospective
Candidate for Morayshire — second row, second from left, seated).
Successful Year For
Grimsay
The Grimsay lobster tanks
are helping to bring new pros¬
perity to North Uist. A success¬
ful first year has increased the
confidence of the operators,
Minch Shellfish Ltd., and the
local fishermen, and an exten¬
sion of the collection area is
now planned between Berneray
and Lochboisdale.
Minch Shellfish Ltd. began
operations in April, 1968, with
the backing of the Highlands
and Islands Development Board
and their first year has exceeded
all expectations. Said managing
director Duncan Erskine: “We
marketed 130,000 lbs. of lob¬
ster, half of the production
going to France by special
charter flights laid on by
French import iirms. These
will begin again in July and
should, like last year, continue
until December.”
“The crofter-fishermen in the
area now have a guaranteed
ARMY PIPING DIRECTOR
WINS
Lt. John MacLellan, Director
of the Army School of Piping,
Edinburgh Castle was the win¬
ner of the competition for com¬
posing a new Ceol Mor spon¬
sored by the Saltire Society, An
Comunn Gaidhealach and the
College of Piping.
The winning composition,
“ The Phantom Piper of Cor-
rieyarick” was played for the
first time in public at Stirling
Castle last Friday .as part of
the Stirling Festival fortnight.
Lobsters
market for shellfish, something
they have never had before,”
added Mr Erskine. “As our pro¬
duction requirements grow, so
should the numbers of our
supphers and employment op¬
portunities in the plant. We are
continually looking for ways of
diversifying production and we
hope that, this year, fishermen
in the area will land scallops at
Grimsay for processing.”
A new pier is being built to
improve landing facilities at the
plant.
Minch Shelfish employ nine
part-time and four full-time
staff. Further employment pros-
pects could be opened up
through a new venture, the
experimental production of
canned lobster and crab soups.
Note: To date, the Highland
GRANT APPROVED
FOR
£400,000 SPEY BRIDGE
At a meeting of the joint
bridges committee of Banff,
Moray and Nairn at Elgin
recently it was stated that the
Scottish Development Depart¬
ment had approved the applica¬
tion for a 75 per cent, grant
for the new Spey bridge at
Craigellachie at an estimated
cost of £359,000.
But additional approach roads,
land acquisition and other
items will bring the road cost
to £400,000.
Board have approved assistance
totalling £15,450 towards the
purchase of four dual-purpose
fishing vessels, ranging from 28
ft. to 35 ft., for the Uists.
There are three new craft, one
of which is fishing while the
remaining two are under con¬
struction in Orkney, and a
second-hand boat built in 1966.
Alfi four vessels are suitable for
lobstering, line fishing and sea
angling.
LEWIS APPEAL TO
VISITORS
The Lewis and Harris branch
of the Lord’s Day Observance
Society have distributed cir¬
culars to all hotels and guest
houses urging “ residents, visi¬
tors and tourists ” to respect the
island Sabbath.
The society, who last week
were successful in having a lock
put on Stornoway’s first auto¬
matic petrol vending machine
to prevent it being used on
Sundays, extend good wishes in
their circular to “ all who so¬
journ in our island.”
It then adds: “Observers
will not fail to discern in our
midst a way of life which em¬
braces, we trust, a jealous
regard for the sanctity of the
Christian Sabbath. The society
enjoin members of the commu¬
nity to be faithful custodians of
this divine institution and this
sacred heritage. True allegiance
to the demands of God’s holy
day from ‘the strangers within
our gates’ is also the society’s
hope and constant prayer.”
Excellent Inverness
Festival
The greater number of
trophies competed for in this
year’s Inverness Music Festival,
which ended on Saturday after¬
noon with drumming and pip¬
ing competitions in the High
School, were gained by indivi¬
dual or group competitors from
the town. Both the Carnegie
Challenge Trophy and the Leys
Castle Trophy for choir entries,
hymn and anthem respectively,
were won by the Crown Church
Choir, Inverness, while an In¬
verness team of Scottish
Country Dancers, the 3rd Com¬
pany Girls’ Brigade, won the
Lady Hermione Cameron of
Lochiel Trophy for the fourth
| time. Under the supervision of
Mr Curtis Craig, Inverness-
shire Music Organiser, the fes¬
tival secretary, the event proved
very successful, with entries up
on last year by 300, making ..
total of 1,500. Mr Craig was
delighted with the upsurge in
attendance at the various com¬
petitions and the general public
support given to the festival,
and, in particular, he was very
pleased with the increase of en¬
tries for the Gaelic competitions.
“It’s been an excellent festival
this year and a lot of the credit
for its success must go to the
officers of the Inverness Music
Association and to the com¬
mittee,” he added.
O THUIMEIL GU LOCH
RAINEACH
O chionn ghoirid chaidh
sgrudadh a dheanamh leis na
Royal Engineers air de*
ghabhadh deanamh airson
rathad a thogail troimh Rain-
each eadar Siorrachd Pheairt’s
Gleann Comhain. Cho-dhuin iad
gum faodadh da mhile dheug
de rathad-charaichean a thog¬
ail eadar Steisean Raineach
agus Tigh an Righ.
Ged nach eil ach an da
mnile dheug eadar an da aite
feumaidh duine an ceart uair
106 mhiitean a rathad a shiu-
bhal a dol eatorra.
Tha an ath cheum an urra ri
Comhairlean na ssiorachdan.
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