UNEMPLOYED ACRES
Highlands Of Scotland
CALL FOR DEVELOPMENT Rea 9 p.m. LONDON, Dec 8. Lord Lovat, a war-time commando leader who owns 200,000 acres in In-verness-shire, has called for the development of the one-third of the British Isles now “lying more or less unemployed.” Lord Lovat, who started with a small herd of Galloway cattle when he returned from the war has now between
700 to 800 head, complained that in Scotland there are 10,000,000 acres of more or less waste land. The Highlands today, he continued, were producing only one-quarter of the cattle that the clansmen raised from the glens 100 years ago without any artificial aids or the legion of officials that were produced today. In those days, after salting down enough beef for their own needs, the Highlands sent 155,000 cattle to the big annual market at Falkirk. Those men lived on meat not on orange juice like Sir Stafford Cripps (Chancellor of the Exchequer) or nuts like Mr John Strachey (Food Minister), said Lord Lovat, and he advocated a beef cattle policy to utilise rough grazings.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27259, 9 December 1949, Page 7
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