NEWSPAPER OF CURRENT EVENTS IN Ihi. HIGHLANDS, 19.^1967 THE ISLANDS, AND IN SCOTLAND published by AN COMUNN GAIDHEALACH — The Highland Associate i

DI-ARDAOIN 18 AN CEITEIN 1967 6d fruth THURSDAY 18 MAY 1967

SCOTLAND’S BI-LINGUAL NEWSPAPER-

NEW HIGHLAND FEIS NA DRAMA to see any revenue from j GH. iDHLIG LANDLORD these new acres being taken beingover byploughed the National back Trustinto A Tighinn Torridon Estate goes to some kind of local economy Duaisean Comunn structure. We have in mind Gu Inbhe National Trust the employment of local Aon feis deug — sin an Inbhirnis people, opportunity for local aireamh a th’ aig Comunn The Torridon Estate, in Wester Ross, excluding Torri- investment into tourist facili- Drama Ghaidhlig Ghlascu Aig deireadh na seachhdhuin don House and its adjoining woodlands, has been handed ties with a view to creating air an cul a nise. Tha mar sin so chaidh choisinn Comunn over to the care of the National Trust for Scotland. The an income from returns. deagh aobhar aig A’ Cqm- Drama Ghaidhlig Inbhir-Nis estate was accepted by the Inland Revenue in part satis- “This is exactly the kind unn seo a bhith creidsinn gu a’Phriomh Dhuais aig Feis faction of estate duty from the death of the 4th Earl of of thing the Highlands bheil an Fheis air bunait Drama Ghaidhlig Ghlascho. A Lovelace The cost to the National Land Fund has been Board should be inevestigat- sheasmhach. Tha daoine a bharrachd air so thog iad a £22,500. ing. It has yet to do some- nise a’ feitheamh rithe is fios Phriomh Dhuais airson Dealbh The new area is a “piece to be able to contribute to thing along these lines. Or at aca nach eil ni eile coltach Chluich Abhachdaich. of the wildest and most the running of the new least come out into the open rithe ri fhaotainn. Ged a tha faisg air coig beautiful part of the Western estate. that it is active in ecology Chan aithne dhomh cruinn- bliadhna bho’n chuireadh an Highlands,” said a Trust Last night, Mr Frank research.” ichidhean sam bith far a bheil comunn air chois an Inbhir-Nis spokesman. It adjoins the Thompson, secretary of the ktchd - eisdeachd chuJ beo- cha robh iad cruinn comhla o Beinn Eighe Nature Resrve, S.N.P. Highlands Area AN COMUNN thail, le beachdan a siubhal chionn ochd miosan deug gu which was the first national Council, said in a statement: bho dhuine gu duine air na toiseach na bliadhna so. Rogh- reserve to be declared in —"The Council have a GAIDHEALACH — bhitheas mun coinneimh air naich iad “ Bodachan a’ Chao- Britain. Land Use Committee to in- MEUR INBHIRNIS an ard-urlar. Mar as sine an rainn ” a sgriobhadh ’sa Bheurla The National Trust, with vestigate the way in which Fheis ’sann as motha eolas fo ’n t-ainm “ The Magic some 30,000 supporters, land in the Highlands is be- vernessAt the Branchrecent A.G.M.of An ofComunn, the In- agus as geire breithneachadh. Rowan ” le Seumas Grannd owns about 60 properties, ing used. So far, the pre- the Secretary and Treasurer repor- ’S docha gum faod am agus air eadar-theangachadh le more than 70,000 acres of iminary investigations have poUjed that during the five months fear-clu’The a bh'th car fear, cathrach a’ Chomuinn, land, including 15,000 acres found more a land abuse since the branch was reconstituted gruamach gus am bi a chuid Mgr. Alasdair Friseal. at Kin tail, 1 2,800 at Glen- than use, with no real co- functions.there had Missbeen E.four M. MacLeod,successful fhein seachad, ach an deidh Bha Mgr. Friseal fhein tinn coe, and 8,000 each at Bal- ordination between multi- President, joined with them in laimhe tha e a’ fas cho suil- fad thri seachdhuinnean o macara, Ben Lawers and lateral interests. thanking the Committee and bhir ri each. Tha na dealbhan chionn da mhios agus mar a Goat Fell. The Trust also “In particular, the High- artists for their help and the public - cluiche mar sin a’ daing- thubhairt e “ B’e an inntinn owns St Kilda and Fair Isle. lander is hardly ever related forAs their Miss support MacLeod did not wish neachadh cairdeis am measg anns an robh sinn a’ dol a The Highlands and Islands to these acres now under to be re-elected, Mr Duncan Mac- buill gach sgioba agus a’ Ghlascho gum b’i obair latha Development Board are to some form of ‘national’ con- Leod was unanimously appointed brosnachadh deagh - ghean, toiseachadh agus tha Mgr. survey the area to investi- trol, which were once under President. The other office- eadar na sgiobachan fhein. >- i Hamilton, fear stiuiridh a’ gate its potential in tourism, the dead hand of absentee bearersMiss E. M.are: MacLeod, —Vice-Presidents Mr N. Mac- Tha an Fheis a’ deanamfc .Chomuinn ri mholadh airson a agriculture, forestry and re- landlords. Donald, Mr I. MacLeod; Hon. sin, agus barrachd. Tha fhio£ Meithid deth dhreach a thoirt creation. The, Board hopes “The Council would like Secretary — Miss S. Fraser; Hon. againn na tha an drama a^ loimn.” Treasurer — Mr I. MacDonald; deanamh as leth na canain, Bu toigh-leinn meal-an-naid- TeaMr I.Convener MacLeod — was Miss re-appointed C. Fraser. An uiridh bha ceithir buid- heachd a chur orra le cheile ’s auditor. hnean aig an Fheis, an air- air na h-actairean ’s an luchd Mr MacLeod thanked Miss eamh bu lugha riamh; am cuideachaidh uile airson an ur- Vim. Hr iff nr iV Snn MacLeod for her welcome and bliadhna bha deich ann, an ram a choisinn iad dhaibh fhein thewas meetingcertain forthat, electing with thehim. con-He aireamh a bu mhotha fhath- agus dha ’n Chomunn Drama Limited 'inued co-operation of the mem- ast. Saoilidh mi gu bheil an Ghaidhlig. berspublic, andthe Branchthe Gaelic-speaking would thrive. togail seo a’ leantainn an He stressed the importance of tomhas mhor air oidhirpean neachadh, agus a Ghaidhlig, working all the year round and ura A’ Chomuinn Gaidheal- le cheile barraichte. 20 HAMILTON STREET catering for the tourist population. aich, agus chan eil seo ach an B’ e dealbhan — cluiche INVERNESS. TEL. 34343 Theshould meeting be functions agreed duringthat there the toiseach. aighearach a bha anns a’ summer months. Thainig iad a Leodhas a chuid mhor. Cha robh ach rithist, da bhuidhinn, as an da dhealbh - cluich ur ann, PROVOST W. J. MACKAY Oban, agus a Obaireadhain. agus b’ ann bhuapasan a Thainig iad cuideachd a In- fhuair sinn, an doighean air RETIRES bhirnis agus a Tiriodha. Bha leth, dad de chnuasachadh Last week, after 22 years of ceithir buidhnean an Glaschu air ceisdean cudthromach. public service to his native town, fhein, aon dhiubh o Chomunn Ann am “Balach Ciatach ex-Provost W. J. MacKay retired, nan Leathanach. Coir” thug Domhnall Mac- duringhaving thebeen last Provost three years.of Inverness Bha breitheamhnan againn lain dhuinn sealladh air an Ex-Provost MacKey bi ought roimhe aig a robh Gaidhlig. easaontachd a dh’ fhaodas dignity to his office that will long Fhuair sinn fear mar sin am eirigh ann an teaghlach nuair be remembered by all those who bliadhna cuideachd Coin- a tha nighean a’ togail ri cameGaels in contactwill'remember with him his won- neach Mac-a-Ghobhainn, a duine dubh — Cuspair geall- derful hospitality and humour Leodhas; thug esan a bhreith- tanach agus an dealbh-chluich when Inverness played host to the neachadh cha mhor air fad a b’ fhearr, nam bheachd-sa, 1966 Mod. an Gaidhlig. Bha a bhreith- a fhuair sinn fhathast on CouncilHis colleaguespaid ex-Provost on the MacKay Town (Continued at foot of next column) sgriobhaiche seo. the supereme compliment when, at M.P. RESIGNS WHIP Dhe na dha, b’ i an dealbh- his last Council meeting, he was chluich eile, “An Comety,” urged to consider returning to the Mr Russell lohnston. M.P. for le Fionnlagh MacLeoid, a Townres’. Council after a period of Inverness-shire,Scottish Liberal Whip,has resigned because theof chuireadh air thoiseach. Bha Inverness Cream We understand the ex-Provost his membership of the Royal fadachd air daoine a dh’ and Mrs MacKay are at present Commission on Local Govern- fhaicinn de bheireadh Na SCOTCH WHISKY enjoyingthe Continent. a well-earned holiday on mentof his in time. Scotland takes up so much (Continued on page four) Two Sruth, Di-ardaoin, 18 An Ceitein, 1967 Birth On the other hand ... BRUSH UP IRELANDInverness, — Aton Raigmore10th May Hospital,1967, to YOUR GAELIC daughter.Alastair and Both Alison well. Ireland — a with Tormod Marriages COLOUR SUPPLEMENT (A series of lessons on basic Gaelic) MORRISON—MACLEAN — At the Obviously with the launching ing from others and have long ment, always provided that de- Under each Gaelic sentence Church of Scotland, Tarbert, of any newspaper, some little admired the aggressive sales mand will permit the con- orEnglish phrase translation you will and finda guide an D.Harris, A. onMacRae, 4th April Kenneth 1967, by John,Rev. matters will be overlooked. The drive of the Readers’ Digest. In tinued publication of the news- to pronunciation. youngest son of the late Mr and editorial staff of SRUTH ap- a blatant copy of their sales paper. Thu "singular or familiar form. Mrs Kenneth Morrison, 3 Meavaig, pear to have forgotten all about tactics, we are sending out The SRUTH financial sup- Sibh = plural or polite form. North Harris, and Effie, only a colour magazine. But, all is stamped, addressed cards to pos- plement will be printed on anddaughter the oflate Mr MrsAngus MacLean, MacLean 3 not lost and we have been giv- sible subscribers, offering them green paper to distinguish it Lesson 3 Cliasmbl, North Harris. ing the matter some thought. free gifts and special offers. from the Financial Times. In Tha an duine agus a bhean an seo. RAUSER—CAMPBELL —At Bromp- As nobody else has laid stake Invitees will be given two addition to normal coverage of The man and his wife are here. ton Oratory, London, on the 9th to the title of Colour Supple- choices and will be required to industry, technology, commerce (Ha aq doon-yu ag-us a ven an May 1967, by Father Charles ment Editor, we have reluc- stick the coloured stamp pro- and finance on a world-wide sho). Fraser of Braemar, with Nuptial tantly assumed the post. We vided on the square indicating scale and in depth, it will place Tha am bord anns a’ chidsin, agus MassRauser and of Luzern,Papal Blessing, Switzerland, Johann to trust our appointment will be their decision. Choice “ A ” will special emphasis on traditional tha aran, im agus caise air a’ Elizabeth Anne, daughter of Mr ratified by the general editorial read: “Yes, I want the SRUTH Highland industries such as bhord. and Mrs R. E. Campbell, Westlea, committee after our proposals colour supplement and gift. petro-chemicals and deer horn The table is in the kitchen, and Beauly. are perused and digested. Please rush me a copy and bill products. there is bread, butter and Deaths Admittedly publication will me later.” Choice “ B ” will As a gesture of official ap- cheese on the table. MACDONALD—Passed away at 25 present some minor problems. read: “I am a churlish slob and proval, we have asked the (Ha am bord aoons a cheetchshin, Telford Street, Inverness, Cather- We will not be able to get Lord I ungratefully reject your kind editor of SRUTH to print the ag-us ha aran, eem agus ine Morrison, aged 86 years, wife Snowdon for our photographic free offer of a fabulous booklet title to this column in colour. caash air a vord. [a cheetch- of the late William MacDonald, staff as he is already tied to on Gaelic Graffiti. I also do not Readers accordingly will be able shin—1st ch = as in loch; 2nd North Dell, Ness. Sadly missed. the Sunday Times. Further- want the SRUTH colour sup- to judge the degree of co-ope- ch = as in beech]). GRANT—Passed away at his home, more to the best of our know- plement which you have so ration we are getting in trying Tha an t-acras orm, agus tha 13 Perceval Road, Stornoway, on ledge he has ignored Project kindly reserved in my name.” to bring to you the SRUTH pathadh ort. aged1st May 61 1967,years, John beloved Murray husband Grant, Counterdrift. We are undecided on whether colour supplement. I am hungry (lit. hunger is on of Nancy Grant. Publication costs will be con- to devote our first issue to R. M. M. me) and you are thirsty. siderable, but the ‘ Obser- “China To-day” complete with (Ha an tachk-ras orum, agus ha ver,’ ‘ Telegraph ’ and Sun- exclusive interview with Mao, pa-ugh orst). I ext In day Times ’ supplements have or to scoop Tass and Pravda CHIPBOARD INDUSTRY Tha eagal air, ach chan eil eagal the Times proved viable and most people and do a bumper issue on CRISIS oirre. Eoin c. V; i' 39 originally thought the ‘ Sunday Russia’s moon landing plans. Mr Gordon Campbell (Conser- He is afraid, but she isn’t. Rannsaichibh na sgriobtuirean, Times ’ supplement would be a We may, of course, on the vative, Moray and Nairn), has Ha aig-al air, ach chan ale aig-al oir lha sibh a’ saoilsinn gu bheil costly failure. Many details of other hand, do the Lairg Sheep askedof Trade, the Presidentwhat action of hethe isBoard tak- a" bheatha mhaireannach agaibh our costings have still to be re- Sales or the Portree Highland ing to deal with the crisis in the Chan eil acras oirbh an nochd. A annta-san; agus is iad sin a tha solved, but as an interesting in- Garpes. Nevertheless, irrespec- chipboard industry' in the north bheil pathadh orra? toirt flannis mu m" thimichioll-sa. novation we are thinking of tive’ Gi subject the issue will be of Scotland, which is now caus- You’re not hungry to-night? foirfeAirson is a eiginbhith eolas'na ara daoinebhith charging for the supplement full of drama, exclusive revela- ing the loss of over 250 jobs in Are they thirsty?) againn air da ni. Ciod is coir a and giving the tabloid news- tions and impact. ment.forestry and associated employ- (Chan ale achk-ras or-iv an Thachreidsinn gach isin Ciod’sua arSgriobtairean. dleasdanais. paper away free. We have still Another American idea we Mr George Darling, Joint Mini- nochk. [ch as in loch] A vale Annta sin tha Dia ag innseadh co E to put this idea to the general will be copying is the centrefold says:ster of“ IState, am awarein a writtenof the reply,diffi- pa-ugh orr-a?) ciod a rinn E, ciod ar dleasda- editor and we anticipate that he playmate of the fortnight. culties faced by a chipboard fac- De an t-ainm a tha ort? Murch- nas-ne. will take the attitude that we Watch out for our full size tory in Inverness and of the con- adh. Ciamar a tha thu, a John ch. V; v. 39 are nibbling at his status. We pull-out of Flora McDonald. cern which is felt about outlets Mhurchaidh ? Search the scriptures; for in may possibly get a grant to- We are at present drawing for forestry thinnings in the area. What’s your name? Murdo. How them ye think ye have eternal wards publication costs from up a list of probable regular “ The appropriate authorities are you, Murdo? life: and they are they which tes- the Board of Trade, or from the contributors. We hope to have aresituation." keeping in touch with the tifyTo of be me. complete men we must Highlands and Islands Develop- Iain McLeod as our assis- (Jay an ten-um a ha orst? Moora- know two things, what to believe ment Board, or from the tant editor. Robert McKen- chu. Keer-mar a ha oo a and what to do. Both are told in C.I.A., or possibly grants from zie as political commentator, Baha’i Week-end School Voora-chi ?) Scripture. There God tells us who all three. and Ronald Paterson as our A successful week-end School De ’n uair a tha e? Uair. Da He is, what He has done, and We are not adverse to learn- fashion columnist. Iain, Bob was held early this month in In- uair. Tri uairan. what our duty is. and Ronnie are all well-known ness.Richard Principal Backwell, speaker M.A. (Cantab),was Mr What’s the time? (One) hour. in the West and work in the from Ireland. Among those who Two hours. Three hours S.C.W.S. shop in Kyle. attended were members from (o’cock). FRASER & McCOLL. 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Scotland, Dr theDr feasabilityMabon also study revealed for thatthe ticular.Moray theFirth proposed area and. £50 inmillion par- wouldInvergorden be ready chemical “ very soon.”complex, hadIt providedwas reported 1,285 that new the jobs Board in thein tourism,Highlands. manufacturing These were locatedand in other“ This directions. record is far beyond ex- waspectations,” made of hethe said. loss ofNo joos mention over thedifferential same period treatment resulting meted from outthe favourableto the area development compared withprogram- the ofmes England. in progress in the south-east tiveDespite Employment the fact thatTax thehit Selec- the country,Highlands being area virtuallythe hardest dependent in the onMabon servicedenied ” thatindustries the Tax hadDr Highlandshad a detrimental and Islands effect tourist on thein- dustry.that theHe saidtax it had beennot provedkilled thetourism, time. which Our wasrepresentative increasing allat statementthe meeting a piecethought of thispolitical last Liege is Hanover. agus docha gu bheil iad-san a’ double-think. NA “TOURISTS” 'S iomadh fear is te ann an ait- faicinnbeatha againnerudeigin aanns bheir an smaoin- doigh Bha na fir Ghaidhealach riamh eile ?) ach chan e an fheadhainn eachantachd a iomallachn toileachadh na Gaidheal- ris an tean orra agus toileachas dhaibh. Pressure on Red Deer boireannaich,siubhlach ach co-dhiubhbha cuid an defhead- na air a bheil aodach neonach as luchd turuis as t-samhradh agus Tha e mar fhiachaibh orra-san Development a atha h-uile iad a' bliadhna. sior thighinn Chan nas eil traithe tea- feuchainnthuigsinn agusris na aite doighean thoirt againnedhaibh The Red Deer Commission has bhigtigh, caranaim coltachan Trpndairnis ris a" chaillich san (gheibh aindeointhu mach cho neonachgu bheil 'siad a gamh nach dean e feum dhuinne 'san duithaich againn fhein, ach called on the bodies concerned c -*i, u u a , thaa an cuid aodaichiiwiutv.iicho s a a aunnu bhith a a"laicirm faicinn cmaoine dhaoine a autn-a duth- feumaidh sinne cuideachd cuimh- to recognise the need for manage- fidh bhn"n ^itp^nns > laghach channan fad as. Tha iad a’seal- bhithneachadh a’ smaointeachadh nach bu choir dhuinngu bheil, a byment local of developments.deer likely to Inbe theiraffected an- dbeathahu eadar dhealaichte “gach ole an toin a' choigrich.” nual report (H.M.S.O.. l/9d), the suas gu mullach enuie aird nan a Manchester is Bradford is bho'is? 'fheadhainn'"" againn fhein I. McL. Commission urge that the bodies choimhead‘‘O, bhoabh." i timcheall ars iseoirre. ' nach e torshould in takethe formulationaccount of thisof theirfac- an saoghal a tha farsainn! " plans. They point out that the aonChan chailleach eil fhios no agamte eile ana thulite an conflictresulting between from the deer present and forestry', expan- gu robh Glascho coltach ris an ding forestry programme, is an iorraidheachd.“Ciamar?” dh’ fhaighnichd whichever-increasing is likely problemto take andup theirone cuideigin.haidh e a h-uile"Well.'' duine ars a theidise. "gab- ann, attention more and more in the s cha tig duine as!" SRUTH future. ChiAch na thacailleachan latha eile a annnis feadhainnan diugh. sionIn haveearlier referred reports to thethe Commis-need for ceithir airdean an t-saoghail gun Scotland’s bi-lingual newspaper published by An Comunn their field staff to have power to charachadh bho 'n dorus aca Gaidhealach. shoot marauding deer at night. anfhein. car Amor h-uile Ameireaganach samhradh bithidh agus Theywas introducednow report during that legislationthe year an raga beag aig luchd nan Agriculture, industry, science, tourism, fishing, education, with a view to conveying this gitearaichean nan seasamh ri culture are among the topics presented ii power to them. The bill is also batcha,taobh a’s bithidhcheile daoineaig ceann de gach na each issue in GAELIC unqualifieddesigned to entrygive theto landCommission for the seorsa dath is dreach a' siubhal and ENGLISH. purpose of counting red deer, and na Gaidhealtachd ’s nan Eilean. Published Fortnightly from 6th April, 1967. to allow the Secretary of State to Thaghabh cuimhne cu le agamnabatdh an t-eagalagainn ingauthorise the close the seasonskilling forof deerscientific dur- a’ cheud uair an chunnaic e duine Order your copy NOW by completing the form below and purposes. dubhBha duil a' dolagam sios nach dha’ robh n chladach. e a' dol forward to:— a sguir a chomhartaich' idir ged The General Editor New Kinlochleven nacha’ deanamh robh ancail duine air. dubh bochd Bridge Bithidh sraidean Inbhir Nis, SRUTH Work is to start soon on the GhearasdainPhort Righ, aSteornabhaigh dh' aithghearr is lana’ 92 Academy Street Bridgereplacement which of spansthe Kinlochleven the River debrogan luchd tacaideach. nam feusagan Gun teagamh’s nam Inverness Leven and forms a trunk road isphi minisgortaichean thu feusagan is gucip leor Donavan ’s na Argylllink bteweenand Inverness. the counties of bailtean sin fad na bliadhna ach The new bridge, which will thafaighinn iad. “reinforcements"mar gum bitheadh. as a’t- I enclose Postal Order/Money Order/Cheque for.. videhave a singlespan ofcarriageway 165 feet, will 24 pro-feet samhradh. Tha beachdan neonach wide with two six feet wide foot- Thachairaig feadhainn Sasunnach aca og oirnn.rium for subscription to SRUTH. tionpaths. of Plansshort includelengths ofthe newconstruc- roads fhein anns an Eilean o chionn at the bridge approaches. bliadhnagun do nodh’ dhafhag is athuirt “Alba” e rium an land,The hasSecretary authorised of State acceptance for Scot- oidhche roimhe sin. Docha gun of a tender for £130,873 to con- annsrobh a’suil Chaol? aige ri Steisean Custaim 13/- plus 6/6 p. & p. — 1 year struct the road and bridge. Tha feadhainn eile a chuireas 6/6 plus 3/3 p. & p. - 6 months 12 Themonths scheme, to complete expected at anto takeesti- an fhearg ort leis cho mor agus 3/3 plus 1/9 p. & p. - 3 months mated total cost of £156,000. will aanns bhitheas a’ bhus iad (Eilag fhioseigheach gin beSecretary supervised of onState behalf by ofArgyll the d'rugadh na Sasunnach agus County Council. nabuidhree h - naAmeireaganaich daoine sam bithnas FOUR Sruth, Di-ardaoin, 18 An Ceitein, 1967 B.L.G.E. Feis Na Drama COINNEAMH Bord Leasachaidh na Ghaidhlig BHLIADHNAIL GaidhealtachdLeis a’ Bhard ’s BhochdNan Eilean Tr COMUNN GAIDHLIG Cha chualas nl cho eibhinn (Continued from front page) INBHIRNIS Ris an eubhachd is an ceol N Lorganaich dhuinn an deidh Bha Alasdair MacCoinnich, Bha ’m measg nan ‘ tribal areas ’ D 0 0 0 0 0 0 “Ceann Cropaig,” an Fear Parlamaid Siorrachd Nuair steidhicheadh dhaibh Bord ; dealbh-chluich ainmeil don Rois, an ceann a’ ghnoth- Le bratach Dr air leughadh neach tugadh ciad-urram an tele- aich mar Cheann ard B.L.G.E. air srol, vision. Comunn Gaidhlig Inbhirnis Gu leasachadh na Gaidhealtachd An Oigridh agus am Parantan Bha easaontachd de sheorsa aig Coinneamh Bhliadhnail Fo reiteach Mhic A’ Bhroin. “ Agus thusa, a thraill, air ’nuair a dh’fhalbh i fhein gu eile an seo, mathair a’ gearan a’ Chomuinn an Tigh-Osda Gu lorg feum L air G. 'san E. bragail agus i geal le mo phudar air an teagasg a bha a an Dughallaich Di-haoine Bha luchd a’ Bh. a’ strith tuiteam na do chadal a rithist nighean a’ faotainn san sgoil. seo chaidh. Gun deacha cinn cuid treathal ann leis an reidio sin air. Ged tha le stuth pink air a bilean. Ach Tha am breitheamh seo, Chaidh Domhnall Mac- An litreachadh na tir ; cha tu phaigheas airson nam cha robh math guth a radh coltach ri britheamhnan eile, Cumhais a thaghadh ’na Bha ’n ‘e’ san dol ’nan ‘a’ an so, batteries ’nuair a chosgas iad. Bha dannsa ann an Loch-na- a’ coimhead airson nosan ura. Fhear-cathrach an deidh do ’San ‘i-s’ a’ dol ’nan ‘e-s’ ; Cuir dheth e anns a mhionaid Madadh anoidhche sin, agus Fhuair e nos ur an seo a chuir Iain MacMhathain an Co riamh a chual aig an robh cluas agus na cluinneam e air gu mura cumainn-sa mo bheul daoine gu smaointinn is gu dreuchd sin leigeil dheth aig Gach fuaim mar sin an ‘grieve’ ! chionn deagh ghreis a rithist! duinte, cha’n fhaigheadh mo bruidhinn. ceann na bliadhna. Bidh Thuirt Mac A’ Bhroin, le crathadh Mar a bheil mise sgith de’n chas ann. Chriochnaich an Fheisd le Uisdean Baran a’ cumail aon dranndan suarach sin na Ach, oigridh, nach ann an- Bodachan a’ Chaorainn,” dreuchd an Runaire le Seo- Tha chainnt so dol a dhith, mo chluasan bho mhoch gu nain a tha a’ ghinealach neo- bho mhuinntir Inbhirnis. Gu ras Mac a’ Ghobhainn ’na Ach gheibh sinn doigh air L. a roinn dubh.” thuigseach, Nam b’urrain daibh dearbh chord e rium fhin lonmhasair agus Lachlainn Measg shuinn a thuigeas sinn, Chuir mi car dhiom ’san bhitheamaid le brogan mora agus a reir coltais ri moran Dick a’ gabhail os laimh Luchd carabhans an Gleann na leabaidh agus thubhairt mi ris oirnn a’ cartadh na bathcha eile ; tha mi ’n dochas gu faic faire a chumail air leabh- Caoidh a chailloich gun saoileadh tu ’nuair bu choir dhuinn a bhi a’ sinn air an televison e. raichean a’ Chomuinn. Is Uile-bheste na tir:” oirre fhein nach do dh’eisd i cuir an urlair air chrith a Seo mar a chaidh na Tha sffil gum bi an ath ’S gun aon fhear ionnsaichte ’sa ri sgrios riamh ach sailm. “Cha dannsa ’s a deanamh gair- duaisean:— leabhar sgoinneil de sgrio- chainnt do rinn mi sin” ars’ ise agus deachais ann an Loch-Na- Priomh-dhuais na Feise. bhaidhean a’ Chomuinn an Gun chaill iad lorg air E. greann oirre. Madadh. clo a dh’ aithghearr—s e Ach, a mhathair, ’sann a bha Oigridh, na toireabh geilll Cuach a’ Chomuinn Ghaid- sin an ceithreamh leabhar Thuirt luchd a’ Bh., “Ach ca’ dhaibh. Chan eil orra ach gcr- healaich: Inbhirnis thar an fhichead o ’n chaidh bheil G. thu latha na Sabaid sa chaidh aiche na h-aoise. Deanaibh mar Dealbh-chluich ur: ” An an Comunn a shuidheachadh Gu h-L. fo bhrigh an reachd?” agus srann agad air “ Scarlet a thogras sibh agus gabhaibh ar Comety,” le Fionnlagh an toiseach. Tha aireamh ’S thug seoid gu triall, le suilean Ribbons ” Fhad’s a bha thu a’ diol de gach ni a thogras sibh, MacLeoid mhor thall ’s a bhos, aig an geur, nighe leine a’ chuireadh m’ at- agus ar diol de fhalt fada agus Dealbhadair: tigh agus sgaipte air feadh ’Ga lorg an iar ’san ear: hair air do ’n eaglais! aodach goirid. Calum Robasdan an t-saoghail ml>oir, ceithir ’S chad’ lorg iad G. air tuath no Co-dhiubh smaoinich mi gu’ Tha uine gu leor ann airson Cluich eibhinn : Inbhirnis cheud duine agus fichead s frith m b’fhearr dhomh gun ghuth a dhol do’n eaglais nuair bhios Actair: a coig, aig am bheil an ain- Gu ’n d’ fhuair iad measg nam fear a radh;ach cha robh i deiseil sinn’nar cailleachan! Murchadh Domhnallach mean sgriobhte mar luchd- A bh’ air an snaim an doigh ’san fhathast. Cha bhi sibh og ach aon Ban-actair: Anna Dhughlas taic a’ Chomuinn, agus cainnt “ Agus am fait staodach tha uair! Sar-chluich: An t-Oban theagamh gum bi duil aig a’ Nan Gall bho linn nan creach. sin ort! B’fhearr learn gu ’n Suas le Mary Quant Actair og : chuid mhor dhiubh ri leab- ■“So agaibh G.” thuirt luchd a’ Bh. gearradh tu e. Coimhead cho Coinneach Maclomhair har tomadach eile an ath Le ard-iolach gun chis, breagha ’s a tha fait Flo- Thug a’ Bh. U. Nic Ille na bhliadhna. “ Is bheir sinn so gun hurst gun both raidh . . CONGRESS MEETING Brataich seachad na duais- Faodaidh duine sam bith Na sloigh ’nam miltean mil ; Oh nach duineadh tu do The Annual Congress of ean. An oraid ghoirid, thuirt aig a bheil uidh ann an obair Chan fhag sinn sluagh a siar no bheul arsa mise rium fhein. the Federal Union of Euro- i gu robh i an dochas gun ionmholta a’ Chomuinn seo tuath Ach feuch thusa an duineadh. oean Nationalities will be tigeadh an latha nuair a fios a chur gu Runaire Air Wick gu Maoil-Chinn-Tir.” Tha comas labhairt anabarrach held at Abenra, Denmark, bhitheadh feisean ionadail Comunn Gaidhlig Inbhirnis ’S bho bhuaidh na cearb a bha ’na aig a’ chaillach againne. on May 20 - 22. An Inter- air feadh na duthcha, far an aig 92 Sraid Acadamaidh, sealg Chuir i aisde an sin mu’m Celtic Meeting is being plan- taghadh iad buidhnean a agus ma thogras e faodaidh Gun chaill iad lorg air G. aodach, mu’m bhrogan, agus gu ned by the Union for Sep- thigeadh air adhart gu Feis e feadhainn dhe na leabh- ruigeas mu na stuthan a bhithinn tember in Montreal, to coin- Naiseanta an Drama. raichean priseil a chaidh an Bha bhratach lorn an nis ach L. a cuir air m’aodann. Cha robh cide with “ Expo 67.” D. G. clo roimhe seo a cheannach Os cionn B. Mhic A’ Bhroin, guth air latha banais Moraig, gu math saor. Ach bheireadh L. sin beo-shlaint’ Chan fhada nise gus am Na b’ fhearr na ola roin ; POPULATION AN OPPORTUNITY TO HELP bi naidheachd aig an Bhiodh ola-dhubh o thir a muigh FIGURE With this issue we have introduced an extra four pages Runaire air ainmean nan Toirt saibhris thuc 's bi-bed : which we hope will become a standard feature — to give curaidhean glice i-- nan ’S bha ched cho tiugh o 'n ola dhubh CHANGES readers a better bargain for their sixpence. Those of you daoine foghluimte a bhios a’ ’S gun’ chaill iad cuid de ’n Bhdrd. Mr Malcolm MacMillan (La- ' who are familiar with the newspaper industry will be aware tighinn a bhruidheann aig Gu cugallach bha B. an nis bour, Western Isles) has asked the that it takes many kinds of people to keep a newspaper Coinneamhan ■?.’ Chomuinn Gun chas air ach bloigh L„ whichSecretary countiesof State forin Scotland going. Not that Sruth is in danger of folding up. Far from Is ma tha annlan tuilleadh air showed an increase in population ’ it. Indeed, with a readership of something in the region of Auctioneer and Appraiser Tha ’m pobull orra dall ; between 1965 and 1966; which 16,000 per issue the future looks bright. But it could be Gun tug e ceum air seacharan, showed a loss; and what are the brighter. Sin their luchd Innse Gall, figures of gain or of loss in each, ’ With this in mind we appeal to you for some help. W. Cunningham Nuair mhinich e gur ’leasachadh’ respectively.Mr William Ross has circula- • You could do this in a number of ways. An crodhadh do ’n aon fhaing. ted the following figures: ' 1. First by bringing Sruth to the notice of those of your 48 John Street Bha tuilleadh air bi-bed dhuinn ann Aberdeen — estimated popula- friends who don’t already get it. Just let us have DUNOON An srdl B.L.G.E.: tionJune at30, June1966, 30,135,519, 1965, loss136,069; 550; their names and addresses and we’ll do the rest. Telephone 102 Bha aighir agus ddchas ann Angus — 94.887, 94,852, loss 35; ' 2. Next, we want Sruth to be your paper. We really Thaobh dhdighean bed ar tir, Argyll — 59,527, 58,830, loss 697; do. So why not let us have news of social significance ’S ath-bheothachadh do dhaoine 's Caithness — 28,388, 28,257, loss - in your area ? We already have a small network of REMOVER STORER chlann 131; Inverness — 81,689, 84,471, contributors but we need to strengthen the team. PACKER SHIPPER Bho cheann gu ceann GACH sgir, gain 2,782; Nairn 8,360. 8.168 What can you do to help ? ’S a’ dol am meud, an laimh an loss 143;192: RossOrkney—18,245, and Cromarty 18,102 — 3. Have you friends or kinsfolk overseas who would be laimh, 57,440, 57,128, loss 312; Suther- interested in getting Sruth ? The paper, we feel, Lochardil Hotel Ar cainnt, ’s ar teachd-an-tir. land — 13,240, 13,175, loss 65. could well act as a firm handclasp of friendship be- tween those at home and abroad. So drop us a note INVERNESS “GU TIR MO LUAIDH ” of their names and addresses and we’ll get in touch Mansion House standing with them. Dain eadar theangaichte agus sgeulachdan 4. Failing all the above, you can, of course, give a year’s in 41 acres of ground le subscription to Sruth as a gift. On our side, we’ll ★ UISDEAN LAING, M.A., Dip.Ed. do all we can to make it a worthwhile gift of quality 11 miles from town centre and a fortnightly reminder to your friends that your in residential area “ Anns a leabhar bheag gheibh sibh, ann an Gaidlig ghlan, barrachd thoughts are with them throughout the year. de dheagh bhardachd as gach tir na chi sibh ann a leabhar Gaidhlig As you are no doubt aware, publishing Sruth is an act ★ sam bith a chaith a chur am mach ’s an linn so.” of faith. It has at the moment the promise of being a good FULLY LICENSED A phris 12/6, agus lOd postadh workman for the Gaelic language. 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Fish Meal Factory Review Order STARR PERFORMANCE GET YOUR Mr Russell Johnston, M.P. for Inverness-shire has been It’s nice to get a good record seeking clarification from the Herring Industry Board of their to play over while relaxing in HIGHLAND DRESS recent statement that it is hoped to site a fish meal factory in an equally good chair with the vicinity of Mallaig. whatever one fancies. Will from Mr Johnston is very concious of the strong local objections Starr’s latest, “Starr Music which were voiced when this project was first mooted on the Box,” Thistle Records BSLP, is The Capital of grounds of smell nuisance and the effect that this would have one such record. This popular on local amenity. accordionist from Croy, near The Highlands In a letter to Mr Johnston, Kilsyth, and his band have the Herring Industry Board come up with what should have replied: prove to be a winner. ESTIMATES GIVEN “ A feasibility study of this Durdail A Gaelic waltz on the new FOR ALL TYPES OF project has been going on for album includes “ Dearest my HIGHLAND WEAR some time. Those concerned have Reidh? own one,” “Leaving Barra” and to be as certain as is possible in “ Morag of Dunvegan.” In Brochure Sent on Request. this unpredictable industry that, Nach eil e eibhinn a bhith tribute to his friendship with Call and see our large stock ifeconomically a factory isviable. set up, It hasit will there- be chalamainfaicinn Wilson air an isaon Heath mheanglan mar the late Robert Wilson, Will fore established, first, that there a durrghait ri cheile seach a bnith Starr has some of the singer’s of Gent.’s and Boys’ Kilts is likely to be an adequate and sabaid mar choilich dhubha mar favourite numbers. Altogether and Kilt Jackets. reasonably regular supply of raw is abnaisi / a record to be listened to for material. Secondly, the factory Eadar an ruith a tha air na a great deal of pleasure. must be sited at, or close to, a politiseanachmhuiltein aca chaagus n ioghnadhna carran gu Suppliers of Pipe Band Uniforms and Equipment portring-buying where thestrength generality is activelyof her- bheil sinn caran coltach ri TRIBUTE represented, as it is well-nigh im- cudeigin ann an aislig. Aislig ann Although he died more than possible to attract the catchers to Frangachno as is dochais Gearamailteacn gum bi sgrathal !s a two years ago, the popularity any place which is outwith the leabaidh comhla ruinn fhathast of Robert Wilson’s songs about normalindustry. commercial The facts streams and ofconse- the latha air choirigin. Ma thachras Scotland appears to be increas- DDMS HnSHQlM 4 SOUS ITD quences of the geography of the sin bidh gu leoir ’s an Rioghachd ing with the passing months. Tailors and Kiltmakers West Coast being what they are, aseo cheart a bhitheadh cho aineolach cho cridheil ris a’ mhucagus A fan-club still exists for the inescapable conclusion is that a bha cho ainmeil aig am a’ Cho- Wilson, who starred all over 47-53 CASTLE STREET. INVERNESS the proper place for the factory gaidh, agus meall eile nach bi. ’S the world. Telephone 34599 is Mallaig itsejf. e is deuchainniche uile gu leir Recently the B.B.C. repeated applied“Some forten yearsand ago,were my granted Board dolnach a eilthachairt, fhios againn math noair ole,na thama for the third time an hour-long Planning Permission to set up a thig an latha buidhe sin. programme aJ?out the tejior’s herring oil and meal factory in Tha feadhainn ag radh gum bi life. This was 1n response to the “ Point ” area of Mallaig, am biadh nas daoire ach gum bi public requests, quite unusual ROYAL HOTEL PORTREE They were then and still are very Thamaoin eagal mar air “fridges'” no tuathanaich, nas saoire. gu for any B.B.C. programme. consciousto preserve of the the amenities. concern Indeed,locally h-araid ’s a Ghaidhetf tachd, gum Now appears a long-playing Telephone 225/6 they feel just as strongly as the bi saoghal aca nas duiliche na album of Wilson’s best-known A.A. and R.A.C. Three-Star Hotel people of Mallaig do about this. bha e roimhe agus an aghaidh sin songs, recorded by Gordon Heretofore, it has been impos- faodadhtha sinn sinn a’ a cluinntinndhol a dh’ gumaite MacKenzie, a tenor from sible. even using the most up to sam bith anns an Roinn Eorpa Greenock. This record is called Recently Reconstructed and offering vingdate designsthe best ofindustrial plant and practices, obser- airson cosnaidh. Ach ’s e tha “Gordon MacKenzie’s Tribute First-Class Amenities . . . entirely to eliminate objection- dhith oirnne cothrom cosnaidh to Robert Wilson ” (Thistle PRIVATE BATHROOMS AND SHOWERS able effluvia from oil and meal fhaighinnRud eile, annco aigan aAlbainn tha fios fhein. sam Records, BSLP 45). There are factories. Recently, however, there bith air Cumhn'ant na Roimhe twelve favourites to hear on FULLY LICENSED COCKTAIL and PUBLIC BARS has been a significant advance in agus na tha e ciallaChadh? ’S this disc ; all are backed by the Dining Room Open to Non-Residents thisdrying respect. has beenA newdeveloped system ofin e fior ghnothach bochd tha seo John Cutler Quintet. Scandanavia, of which the Scienti- atharraichaidheanchionn ’s gum chodeanadh mor ’nare Gordon MacKenzie, who fic Advisor to the Chemical Tech- doigh beatha nam faigheamaid does full justice to the Wilson nical Research Institute of the a. stigh dha ’n Mhargadh songs, was himself ‘discovered’ MACLEOD HOTELS LIMITED hasDirectorate said: ‘ Iof think Fishing the inresults Norway are Choitchionn. by Robert Wilson as he sang simply fantastic and it would be ainmeachadhCiamar a thaam sinnbrochan dol dh’a in a Scottish club in New York difficult to understand how any- bhitheas ann an uair sin? 'Se e in 1956. When Robert died, one could object to having a Her- “European Economic Sommunity” Gordon began gathering the ring Oil Factory as a neighbour no E.E.C. a their iad ris ’s a famous tenor’s favourite and if they are using this new techni- Community”'aBheurla. ‘Se bha“European aig caillich Comic ’s best-known songs. You can cal breakthrough. a bhaile seo air. Agus de mu now enjoy them yourself. HIGHLAND oil“ Theand proprietorsmeal factory of ain largethis dheidhinn nan oran naiseanta mar country are about to instal this "Rule Britannia,” “Deutschland MARY’S FIRST REFRIGERATION SALES system. They expect that the work Uber A'les,” "The Road to Dun- It’s always a thrill for any will be completed by the end of Cha’ndee ” urrainnagus “iad La uileMarseillaise a bhith ann” ? girl to have her first record re- 19 Grant Street :: Inverness July. Both they and my Board ach is docha gun deanadh. “Chi, leased. So we can imagine.the arefor thehoping system that will the be claims fully bornemade chi mi na mor bheannan” an pleasure Mary Sandeman had In association with FROZEN FOODS (Inverness) Ltd. out. All of us who know what gnothach dhaibh uile ach dha when her EP was released — an important part in the develop- dhuilichna h-Olandaich. a tha seo. ’S e fior cheist “ Many Sandeman,” Thistle (an all Highland firm) ment of the industry such facto- Co-dhiubh cha’ n eil sinn a Records RWEP 647. ries provide, are anxious that the stigh fhathast agus ’s ann aig de This is a disc that will give Offer you DEEP FREEZE CABINETS and groundsthey are forliable the toopposition, excite, shall which be Gaulle fhein a bhitheas am facal much pleasure to lovers of removed.” biodhmu dheireadh. corra ghritheachTha e mar gumna’ Gaelic songs, whether they can REFRIGERATORS — including Second- seasamh ann an ’ub no loch (loch speak the language or not. The hand CABINETS — at keenest prices dh’ an aimm “La Gloire de la numbers include ‘Taladh Ship- France”) an toir air magain. Agus hort,’ ‘ Oran Hiortach,’ ‘Alas- Seorasma ruigeas Donn) na magaindhachaidh (Wilson gun is dair an Duin,’ and ‘ Feasgar BAHA’I FAITH slachdan air na toin aca o ghob agus Ceo Ann.’ OWN A “FREEZER” AND art,‘ National genius, areculture, to be literature,preserved an t-seanalair bidh iad gu math Two of the numbers are and developed, but all people fortanach.fantail samhach Ach thafhathast e fhein agus a’ arranged by Ronald Duncan ; CUT FAMILY BUDGET BY HALF must learn at least two lan- feumaidl; sinn a bhith foighid- the backing is by the Orpheus guages ; their native tongue neach rud air a bheil sinn eolach Ensemble. andUnity the in internationaldiversity is thetongue. de- gutha. leorMa ;s chanasa Ghaidhealtachd e “Non” ruinnmar We hear that this record is 0 Call, write or Phone Inverness 34020 for full sired result, not uniformity, bidh fios againn gun tainig air already proving a success — details and Price List of all FROZEN FOODS and it is to be hoped that the Wilson is Seoras Donn tilleadh and we don’t wonder. Hope it world language will be spoken dhachaidh mar a dh’ fhalbh iad won’t be too long before we • Deliveries promptly executed Free of Charge with many a burr and accent.’ Cluinnmain a’ sinn ■ seinn an “Theuair sinCarnival na cala- is hear Mary’s recorded voice adoptionExcerpt, ofconcerning a universal the Over.” again. EASY TERMS AVAILABLE language as a step towards Agents for Civilization,’unity, from ‘ Renewalby David of NEWSAGENT . STATIONER The Scottish Schoolmasters’ As- Hofman. Murdoch sociationmingly against have anyvoted raising overwhel- of the Sternette Prestcold Kelvinator Lee Etc. A Gaelic pamphlet is available Cards Gifts Tobaccos school leaving age to 16. Earlier freesecretary, on application to the local Mr Bruce Millan, Scottish Under “ Tadhail ’s Gheibh thu Bargan ” 42 Island Bank Road, Inverness HILLFOOT STREET, DUNOON Secretary of State had warned Tel. 638 raisedthat if inthe 1970 leaving it never age wouldwas notbe. Six Sruth, Di-ardaoin, 18 An Ceitein, 1967 SRUTH OBAN, LORN, MORVERN & MULL DI-ARDAONN 18 AN CEITEIN, 1967 Automation and PROVINCIAL MOD THURSDAY 18 MAY, 1967 OBAN—FRIDAY, 23rd JUNE 1967 the Future aboveIntending are requestedCompetitors to noteat thatthe Transporting Thoughts (By a Special Correspondent) sentis concerned, and may even pre- the closing date for entries has now Somehow the idea has got round that the unrestricted Automation considerable difficulties with been extended to Friday, 26th May proliferation of the private motor car is synonymous with There are a remarkable number must thus be taken to establish are1967. available The Syllabus from andthe Entryundersigned, Forms 20th century progress. word.of definitions But there available is also a forfemark- the the necessary education facilities, to whom entries should be sent. However, recent technological developments have able degree of agreement among quicklysq that forretraining new work. can be done Special attention is drawn to made the private car as out of date as the horse. Railways the authors of these definitions. In America the multi-craft Competition No. 7 which is for Solo ,_can now be made to run on air cushions at more than 300 The most apt holds that auto- tradesman is no new phenomenon. singing of a Donnchadh Ban Song m.p.h., making use of the car as a commuting aid quite mationof mechanisation. is the logical That development it has inIn thisa shortcountry. time he will appear and of a song chosen by the Com- obsolete. Consider also the despoliation of the country- grown out of mechanisation with Donnchadhpetitor, the Ban prize Medal. including This com-the side by main roads — and all the laterals and sub-laterals the aid of instrumentation and the Society petition is OPEN to all parts of the required to get to one’s front door. computer. Just as, in fact, mech- tionIn ofsituations automation where will the mean introduc- con- country. A recent report of the Massachusetts Institute of craftsmanship,anisation has, inwith turn, the grownaid of outthe siderable displacement of workers, R. L. M. Banks, Hen. Secretary Technology prepared for the U.S. Department of Com- steam engine and, more recently, there is a responsibility of all 19 Stevenson Street, Oban. merce, is called ‘ Project Transport.’ This report makes the electric motor. parties concerned to ensure an the private car in Britain obsolete. The report backs the The essential and revolutionary methods.easy transition from old to new ' Glasgow — Shinty full-scale use of inter-urban transport provided by trains whereasnature ofmecahinsation automaion is isan that,ex- Social shock absorbers, such as using the hovercraft principle. tension of man’s manual dexterity, severance pay, re-deployment, CAMANACHD CUP FINAL In the light of this report. Dr Beeching’s advent to and requires the constant atten- where possible, with assistance in (Scottish Championship) the rail scene was a disaster of the first magnitude. In- tion of the operator, who is thosere-housing, near pensionableearlier retirement age, would for INVERARAY stead of developing the public service, to counter the de- machine,obliged to automation work at the is pace an exten-of the help. Reasonable unemployment mand for private-car ownership, he did the reverse. And sion of his mental faculties where- pay is essential. NEWTONMORE the millions of money withdrawn from rail development by the operator, having prepared With increasing automation in at Old Anniesland, Glasgow have been earmarked for costly road schemes. a computer programme, can leave inindustry the working and commerce, hours is inevitable.a change (by kind permission of Glasgow The result will be inevitable — an increase in urban machinethe computer without tofurther control attention. the There are great differences of High School) congestion as millions take to the car, and an overall re- The immediate purpose of opinion as to when the full bene- Saturday, 20th May 1967 duction in the speed of transport. For it is a fact that the automation is a narrow and fits of automation will provide Throw-up 3 p.m. speed of transport through main urban centres is now materialistic one: to take ad- bothBut abudance there is generaland leisure. agreement Referee: Mr James Forgrieve, Oban often slower than it was when the horse ruled the road. ductionvantage andof the the highlower speed labour of con-pro- that it will release men from the Admission: Ground 4/- Stand 2/- A complete change in the transport pattern in this tent in production costs, to pro- menial task, and that machinery country must take place soon — if the generation is duce .goods and services in will produce the great majority SKIRTS. Expertly tailored from your ‘ not to find itself having to rely on ‘ shank’s pony ’ for greater quantity and at a low sustenanceof goods which and wecomfort. require for our own material. Write, phone or call personal movement. priceThis, to indeed,the community is why atindustry large. 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Tha e coltach gu bheii am Bord Leasachaidh a dol a withlatest abouttechniques one-third could theoperate man ancemunity made to ensure available that bythe automa-abund- chosg muillean not air tighean osda anns na h-Eileanan. power at present employed. tion can be enjoyed by all. ’S e naidheachd mhath a bhitheadh an seo mur a In 1965, a leading executive of The Highlands Failte Do Lybster bitheadh gur e coig tighean osda mor a* cosg £200,000 the National Coal Board said — It is intresting to consider in an urra a tha iad am beachd a thogail leis an airgiod. will“ By theprobably 1980’s, beall ourcomposed manpower of what way the Highland area of THE PORTLAND ARMS Tha iad an duil gum bi na tighean osda seo fosgailte officials, controllers and mainten- Scotland will fit into the picture extends a warm welcome deich miosan ’ s a’ bhliadhna, gun gabh iad mu 150 de ance men.” of a future automated society. Salmon Fishing, Trout Fishing dh’ aoighean, gum bi 30 luch-seirbhis annta agus gum bi An American electronics factory reasonableAnd the followingguesses based are ona pro-few Sea Angling cothrom aig muinntir an aite anns a bheii iad an an ducedintroduced the numberautomation of operatorsand re- jecting lines of present thinking Good Fare and a Fine Cellar cleachdadh airson ceilidhean s a leithid sin re mhiosan from 200 to 2. This is a familiar about Highland development: — a’ gheamhraidh. Thuirt am Bord gu robh doighean cuir picture. 1. Increased leisure time in an communication in the techno- seachad tide fa-near dhaibh airson nan tighean osda seo Sir Lean Bagrit — Chairman of populationautomated society,increase, coupled could withwell logies associated with automation. ach nach b’ urrainn dhaibh inuse de bha annta air eagal Elliotsed the Automation need for a Ltd.social — purposeexpres- force the area into playing the In the initiating stages, yes; but gun toisicheadh muinntir nan tighean osda ann an ceann of automation in the following role of a pleasure ground for hardlyIncreased further. leisure time will, of a deas na Rioghachd air an cleachdadh romhpa. Quotation from the Reith lecaures British millions with a resident course, provide an impetus to A nis ma tha na h-aiteachan sin gu bhith fosgailte 0964): — “ service2. The ” large-scalepopulation. introduction education in the humanities. deich miosan s a’ bhliaadhan feumaidh gur e goireasan Freedom of automated industrial and com- Gaelic may well find a place of cuir seachad tide am broinn nan tighean osda, rudan “ There is a great technological mercial activities into the area de- muchsignificance leeway here. to makeIt has, up however, before coltach ri pollan reota no pollan snamha, a tha fa-near explosionScience. Thisaround explosion us, generated is already by mands the attendant provision of it is in a position of strength and dhaibh oir cha bhi an t-side freagarrach airson a chorr. freeing vast numbers of people maintenancetechnicians forWork. installation These tech-and influence. cuid mhor dhe n tide a bhitheas iad fosgailte from their traditional bondage to nicians will have to be knowledge- 4. The social pattern in the Ach gheibh daoine na goireasan sin anns na tighean-osda nature, and now, at least, we have able in new techniques such as itsHighland characteristic area must must change remain. — butAt mora air Tir Mor agus chan eil e coltach gun leid iad a it in our power to free mankind pneumatics, servo - mechanisms, present they are sufficiently strong dh’ Uibhist no dha na h-Earradh air an saillibh. A whichonce andis based for all,on want.from . the. fear electronics,other new disciplines.transfer machinery They willand to withstand the adulturating in- bharrachd air sin s e daoine gle bheartach a b’ urrainnn “ To-day, if we know where we also be required to have an in- fluences which have vitiated other a leithid a dh aite cheannach. Le iasad aig 5 % air are going, and if we use the tellectual capacity attained by societies.immense. But the pressures are £200,000 bhitheadh £10,000 de riadh (interest) aca ri slave services of Automation in- relatively few people to compre- The present philosophy of Man- a phaigheadh gun tighinn ai a’ chalpa (capital) idir. telligentlyhave the chanceand courageously, of building wea hendthey mustthe work.complexes on which made rather than God-made will Bhiitheadh duaisean an luchd rseirbhis aca ri m paigheadh really high civilisation for our- Not a word has yet been heard increase in general acceptance. air chul sin. selves, and when I say for ‘ our- on training of Highland youth for landsAnd if ii:the will people do so themselves in the High- are Tha e doirbh a thuigsinn ciamar a shaoil am Bord gur munity,selves ’ Inot mean just thea small whole elite com- in a future automated society. Exist- not allowed to decide to what de- ann mar seo a bu choir dhaibh an t-airgiod a tha an the Greek pattern. This is the indicateing plans thatfor technicalthe question education has gree and in what manner they are earbsa riutha a chur a mach. Nach bitheadh e fada na b’ essential purpose of Automation." hardly been condsidered. The to be integrated into the auto- fhearr fichead tigh osda nas bige aig cosgais £20,000 To survive as a leading indus- seeds are already at Inverness and bymated the societyend of whichthis century. will be ours an urra a thcgail—le 15 no 16 de rumannan cadail? Dh’ trialvantage nation, of the we techniques must take offull auto- ad- Thurso in the technical colleges fhaodadh teaghlach an leithid seo dh’ aite a chumail a’ mation. arethere. needed But statementsnow from of Education intention AIR CHUAIRT SA BHAILE dol agus cha leigeadh e a leas a bhith fosgailte cho Unemployment Authorities to say that Highland NicBha Fhiqnghuinn sinn toilichte fhaicinn Criosaidh ’s a’ fada airson an t-airgiod a chaidh a chur a mach air a It is generally accepted that youth will be trained in the High- bhaile air- an t-seachdainn seo thoirt a stigh. Bhitheadh iad cuideachd aig muinntir an automation will not, within the landsnician toand find technological employment levelson tech- in chaidh. B abhaist do Chriosaidh aite airson celidhean no drama no leithid — ’s e gle dangernext two of decades mass unemployment.at least, cause such automated industries as are a bhith ag obair aig a ’Chomunn bheag de mhuinntir an aite a reigheadh a stigh air dorus But it will cause redundancy, now being envisaged by Highland deaghaidhann an dhiInbhir-Nis posadh chaidhach ani aghaidh an t-seorsa eile. mainly among the unskilled and planners.3. Gaelic will have to face the dhachaidh a dh’ Eilean Eige a dh’ Docha gum bi aite ann airson tigh osda mor no dha semi-skilledHowever, occupations.it will also create a Goliath of automation and accept fhuireach. A nis tha i air mar sin anns na h-Eileanan ann an coig deug no fichead demand for a huge army of that, whatever shots are fired from itighinn a’ fuireach go Tir-mor anns a a ’Ghearasdan.rithis ’s tha bliadhna eile an uair a bhitheas rathaidean is goireasan highly qualified technicians. anit sling.effective It will impact be unable for its to recog-make ’S e a h-athair Eoghann Mac- siubhail nas fhearr againn ach ’s e fior amaideas a dantThe workers problem may of trainingwell prove redun- in- nition as means of information Fhionghuinn a tha ainmeil airson bhitheadh ann aiteachan mar sin a thogail an drasda. soluble so far as the older worker (Continued at foot of next column) Fhionghuinn,’an Eilein aige a fhein.tha ainmeil airson Sruth, Di-ardaoin, 18 An Ceitein. 1967 Seven Chan Eil Teagamh Co A Tha Ceart Faodaidh beagan truais a bhith againn ri Caiptein ‘Bunny’ anns an latha-an-diugh. Aig an Newton, an t-iasgar Sasunnach am a thoisich na Goill air reu- a tha an drasda ann am priosan badh mara nan Gaidheal bha ann an Tir na Deigh (Iceland). staid iasgairean Tir na Deigh Ach feumaidh sinn faighneachd car ma mar a bha staid iasgai- dhinn fhein, “ Carson a tha rean na Gaidhealtachd. Cha robh Bunny’s a’phriosan ? ” Ma tha aca ach sgothan siuil. Bha an t- amharus sam bith oirnn mu iasg pailt ach bha an t-iasg a dheidhinn ceartais a’ghnoth- cheart cho doirbh a reic aich cha ruig sinn a leas ach ’s a bha e againne. Direach beachdachadh air cor nan Eilean mar a thachair an Albainn, againn fhein anns an latha-an- shanntaich muinntir nan trail- diugh. Mu ’n bhliadhna 1900 earean iagach nan daoinex ach bha iad moran na bu coltaiche b’e gnothach eile a bha ri Tir na Deigh na tha iad an ann an Tir na Deigh chionn diugh. B’e sin latha Balaich an gun do dhion Riaghaltas na lasgaich agus bha iad dol a dutcha na h - iasgearean aige mach ann na sgothan beaga o na coigrich. Fad iomadach siuil aca air toir an iasg a bha bliadna bha mar gum biodh Beilin Licit hack, Toirbheartan cho pail ’s a Chuan Siar an cogadh ann ach mu dhei- uair ud. ’S e saoghal cunnartach readh thall bha buaidh aca Freightliners for TIR FHOSGAILTE Barbecue ceilidh cruaidh da rireadh a bha aca agus chuir iad ruaig air na naidheachdA r e i rtha nuachdaran a m paipearan ur aca ’s na bataichean anns na lait- trailearean. Tha iad beartach Scotland ann an Toirbheartan chionns at Southannan, hean sin gun mhotor, gun radio an Tir na Deigh an diugh seach gun do cheannaich an Urras no radar annta. Ged a bha an mar a tha iad ’s na h-Eileanan Two new Freightliner trains to ceannNaiseanta a (Nationaltuath dheth. Trust) ’S ani Fairlie t-iasgach math an uair sin is againne agus ’s e an t-iasgach closerbring Scottishto the marketstrade and in industryLondon seo duthaich a tha ainmeil da The Largs Branch of An suarach mar a bha am mar- a tha ’na steidh-shaoibhreis aca. and Lancashire were introduced rireadhbeanntan am fiadhaichmeasg nan marGall airsonBeinn Comunn Gaidhealach has held a gadh aca. An latha a chrionas e bidh iad earlyOne this from month. Aberdeen will “feed” Eighe is Liathach agus is very successful! Barbecue Ceilidh B’fheudar dhaibh pris sam ann an cunnart sgrathail, cha into the Glasgow - Manchester cinnteach gur ann airson an ceedsat Southannan, will go towardsFairlie. theThe Glas-pro- bith a thairgeadh na marsantan bhi cor an Eilein aca dad nas service. Another new Freight- aobhair seo ghabh an t-Urras i. gow Mod funds. The weather was Gallda a ghabhail. Ged a bha ’fhearr na Barraidh agus feu- liner will be added to the Glas- ToirbheartanAch tha nobarrachd na creagan ann oillteil an really good and a real Highland a’ chuid bu mhotha de’n phrot- maidh na daoine falbh. gow-Londonserved by two run Freightliners. which is already Both cunnartach. Direach mar a tha atmosphere prevailed throughout haid lionadh mhogan nan Gall Air thailleabh sin feumaidh new trains will, of course, operate an Ceann t-Saille. aite eile — even to the peat reek. bha beagan air fhagail aig na iad an lamh an uachdar a in each direction. a tha fo spoig an uachdarain seo, Fear an Tighe was Mr Alistair h-iasgairean agus fhuair iad chumail, los nach tig na spuin- Scotland has thus seven Freight- annta.tha dha Thatno tridleasdanas bhailtean eile ann ’san is MacDougallrespectively, andwho Mrcalled Alex on Clark our beo-shlainte gus an d’thainig na neadearan a rithist. ’S ann air- gowliner withtrains London — three and linking one Glas-each grainne mhath do chiobearan very talented artistes, who sus- trailearean. Bho’n sin chrionaich son sin a bha Bunny bochd ’s serving the routes between Aber- bharrachdlatha an diughair aaie bhith an t-Urrasa cumail a tained an excellent programme. an teachd-an-tir aca gus nach a’phriosan. deen and London. Aberdeen and bheanntan s mhonaidhean airson Thosementalists—Angus taking part wereMacBain. — Instru- Bag- robh feum idir ann a bhith dol chester,Glasgow, and Glasgow Glasgow andand Liver-Man- dibhearsain nan Gall. Bu choir pipe selection; Roddy and Grace a mach a dh’iasgach. Cha robh pool. And plans are already well dhaibh nis a bhith gleidheadh nan MacKenzie, Guitar Duets; iagach ann. Cha n’ ioghnadh Obair eile ’ga call advanced for the opening of daoine cuideach. David Ross and John Renton, gun do dh’fhas iad searbh dhe. Freightliner services later this year nist,Accordianists; who as aAlan trio Adam.formed Pia-our Bha riasladh mara fhein dona leughadhBha e ’s muladacha phaipear a anbhith t- Sheffieldbetween andGlasgow Birmingham and Leeds,Edin- mg inaugural meeting of th dance band which was greatly en- gu leoir ged nach bitheadh seachdainn seo chaidh gu bheil burgh, too, is to have its own UniversityScottish Civic last Trust,week, atheard Glasgoi Pro joyed. Soloists — Henen T. Mac- e neo - tharbhach. Bha sin an" Hebridean eiginn bho Bulb ’n sguir Growers an tabhairt- Ltd.,’’ Freightlinerof the year, andterminal will shareby the in endthe fessor Robert Grieve, Chairma Gurney,Millan, ChristineIna MacDiarmid, Campbell, AnneMar- gu buileach ceacharra agus mu airgid? a bha iad a' faighinn. Cha rail “boom” created by the of the Highlands and Islands De garet MacMillan. Mabel Kennedy, dheireadh sguir iad de’n spairn n e na Troichilin a Zurich is Freightliner. velopment Board, describe th and Lulu MacLeod, Alistair Mac- bhochd a bha nist ann. Cha coireach an turus seo ach an One of the principal fields in Central Belt of Scotland as un Dougall, Archie MacKeachern b’urrainn daibh seasamh na b’ fheadhainn a Lunnain. Tha fios which B.R. expect to make a attractive, slip-shod and decayec and Alistair MacKechnie. fhaide an aghaidh nan daoine againnmargadh guan airgidbheil ae bhithriatanach slan ducts.significant The impact spokesman is in steelsaid pro-that mora. Nuair a chaill iad an t- ach ma tha sin a dol a dh’ they now had at the prototype AN COMUNN GAIDHEALACH iasgach chaill iad an t-aon rud fhasachadh na Gaidhealtachd aig stage two special containers de- a dheanadh beatha soirbh an aon am ’s e gnothach gu math signedother steelexclusively products. for coil and dhaibh. Ann an doigh b’e so Faodaidhmichiatach sin abhith bhitheas mar thogar ann. 's B.R. are also now carrying ex- an creach bu mhotha a bha e seo an treas turus air perimental loads of paper from riamh ann an Albainn, creach an deachaidh rudeigean cearr the pulp mill at Corpach, for BONN 0\R — CLAR DE MHOD 1965 moran na bu mhotha na creach ’aam factoraidhbliadhan. AnFoithreach toiseach b transferliner in toGlasgow. the London These Freight-experi- SEANN OR — CLAR DE MHOD 1966 sam bith a thog na Gaidheil a chaidh a dhunadh, ’nuair sin am ments have been described as very nuair a bha neart a ’chlaid- muileann ur a tha faisg air Inbhir- successful, and likely to lead to TEAPAICHEAN de Grain ’san t-seann nos heimh aca ach an turus seo’s e gnothaicheanNis. ‘ Is docha seo gumar bheilghuirean na regularthe Corpach and substantial mill. flows from TEAPAICHEAN de Phiobaireachd — seann ruidhlean nach duinnear Goill is Sasunnalch a bha ’nan air ton bain tighearn ann an ach tearc spuilleadairean. Co-dhiubh bho suilean nan daoine gleusda a tha ’n uair sin dh’fheumadh muinn- ann an Lunnain ach cha ’n ann tir nan. Eilean a bhith fagail na Foithreachmar sinn noa bhitheasa’ mhuilinn muinntir no a LEASAN GHAIDHLIG AIR CLAIR duthcha a dh’ iarraidh cos- nis am fichead croitear a tha ann naidh no stri ri talamh cruaidh an luib a chomuinn a’ faicinn a’ LEABHRAICHEAN AIRSON LUCHD-IONNSACHAIDH nan eilean airson beo-shlainte chuis. Dh' fheuch Bord na agus uireasach. Agus an aite bhith agusGaidhealtachd am muileann ris ama ghleidheadh factoraidh neo-eiseamaileach mar a bha ach feumaidh gun do dh’ de gach seorsa ; Rosg, Bardachd, Dealbhan-cluiche is eile daoine eile bha iad ro-bhit- fhairtlich an gnothach orra. Co heanta fo smachd nan Gall. dhiudiugh thacho na samhachh-aiteachan ri sinSrath an BONN OIR — HIGHLIGHTS OF 1965 MOD Cha ann idir mar seo a tha Nabhair ‘nuair a bha Padruig cuisean ann an Tir na Deigh Sellars ullamh dheth. Chi sinn SEANN OR — RECORDINGS FROM THE 1966 MOD ciamar a ni iad an turus seo. Tape Recordings of Traditional Songs C. M. BLACK of Dunoon Tape Recordings of Traditional Reels on the “ piob-mhor ” Makers of the Famous GAELIC RECORD COURSE on Ten 12 in. LP.s BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE GAELIC BOOKS suitable for Learners SCOTCH SHORTBREAD and a wide selection of Prose, Writings, Poetry, Plays, etc. We Pack and Post Anywhere Shops in Dunoon and District THE DIRECTOR, AN COMUNN GAIDHEALACH Tel. Dunoon 3 11 an That-amadan Raogan a’ Chaluimdeanamh Ruaidh,deiseil airson a’ Chommon Market? ABERTARFF HOUSE, INVERNESS Eight Sruth, Di-ardaoin, 18 An Ceitein, 1967 Do You Know? BARD WELL OF BLINDNESS 1. Where is the highest Well o’ Blindness. They say point in the British Isles? MHORAIR- by Francis Thompson that ony wha drinks ...” 2. What is the oldest Like a reluctant child, a curl day’s work will serve for yours “ Ach ! ” MacMaster grun- document in Scottish ALASDAIR of blue smoke rose up from the too ! ” ted. “ Ye’re gettin’ as bad as Gaelic? MACFHIONGHUINN heather thatch of the low, thick- Quickly she turned to face they folks themselves, wi’ their 3. Who was the first walled cottage as the lighted MacMaster and took a few black magic an’ silly bairns’ evangelical layman to ’S arm bho Aonghas Mac rush-torch was put to its ragged steps towards him. Quite unbe- fears, an’ superstitions! Awa’ preach the Gospel with Dhomhnaill a Morair a thainig edges. known to himself, he retreated wi’ the lot o’ ye. ” success on the Island an naidheachd a leanas: “ A curse on its dampness ! ” an equivalent distance for Black With that he bent down and of Lewis ? ’S ann an Suardalan am cried he who held the torch. Kirsty seemed to swell into a placed cupped hands into the 4. What is the Gaelic for Morair am math a rugadh am Fire ! Damn ye ! ” sharp, evil thing. cold mirror-clear water. He “ caterpillar ” ? bard, Alasdair A^acFhiong- -And, as if in servile obedi- She raised her arms as raised the water to his lips and 5. Co rinn ar t-oran "Is huinn, ’s chan ann am Bun na ence, the smoke disappeared. A though calling on the sun-blue drank noisily. truagh nach robh mise Caime mar tha moran de’n deep, brilliant red glow took its sky as a witness. “ Aah ! ” he cried. “ Come an Eilean mo chridh”? bheachd, ged a fhuair e cuid place and, with a thick roar, the “ MacMaster, hear this,” she on if ye’re thirsty ! ” And he de arach am Bun na Caime far thatch took light. In a minute crued and pointed a thin bony drank until he was satisfied. 6. Caite ’n do rugadh an an robh cuideachd a mhathar a’ the roof was a mass of greedy finger at him. The man looked His men licked their dry lips t-Oll. Urr. Domhall fuireach. Bha Alasdair a’ saigh- flames and gave off a heat so at its wavering tip squarely in and forewent the pleasure till Caskie, O.B.E., M.A., dearachd ann an cogadh Napo- intense that some of the stones the eye. they would come to the Garry- D.D., fear-sgriobhaidh leon. Chaidh a leon aig of the wall cracked and spat “ Aye, ye auld witch ? ” mhor Burn, about half-a-mile ‘The Tartan Pimpernel’ ? blar na h-Eiphit agus chuir- small, hot chips at the crowd “ My curse on you MacMas- further on. 7. Is the “Fair Isle” eadh dhadraidh e. An uair a of men standing by, watching. ter, for the thing you have done MacMaster got up from his (Zetland) noted for chaidh a leontan am feabhas, “ How’s that for a Hielan’ this day. Nine times nine my knees. anything in particular? bha e aig cruinneachadh arms fiery cross ? ” laughed a tall, curse on you as I say to you “ The water’s good herea- 8. What form does the a’ Ghearasdan agus chaidh iar- thick-set, burly man, dressed in that you will never see another bouts, if nothin’ else is,” he Badge of Clan Urquhart raidh air deoch slainte Mhic ’ic lowland clothes, as were most day. Hear this, son of a foreig- said. “ Come on I want to get have ? Alasdair a liubhairt. Rinn e of his men. ner, and maik it well ! ” back before dark.” 9. Which day is regarded sin agus an uair a bha e deiseil Above the frightening roar of “ Ach, ye bletherin’ auld He stepped forward heavily as the most dreadful dh’fhoighneachd Mac’ic Alas- the flames a shrill cry broke witch ! ” he said as he went up and then stopped as his heart in the history of the dair dheth co e a chaidh a out in a torrent of Gaelic- to Black Kirsty. “ This will froze in terror. A piercing ani- Island of Lewis? thaghadh gus a dheoch slainte- flavoured English words. surely stop that long tongue ye mal shriek came from the 1 0. C’ aite an do rugadh san a liubhairt. Fhreagair e have ! ” ground at his foot. He bent Calum MacAoidh, anns na briathran a tha a’ dear- “ A thousand and more cur- And he lifted a clenched-hard down and picked up a wrigg- ughdar “Oran an Radain bhadh gum b’ann am Morair a ses on you and your kind, Mac- fist and struck her such a blow- ling, wild-cat kitten. —O radain fag an Tuath a rugadh e: Master ! What are we to do on the side of the head that the “ Another Hielan’ beast ! tulach so.” “Rugadh mi ’morair Mhic ’ic without shelter and food? Are crowd heard the crunch of Here’s for ye ! ” he shouted, in 1 1. Cuir Gaidhlig air Alasdair, we to starve and die in the bone. The old woman staggered a black anger at the thought of Lemonade ? Tha’n diugh ’na Mhorair cold ? ” back. such a small creature having 1 2. Co rinn am fonn-salm Mhic’ic Shimidh, “Aye, just that for all I care! “Mark it well, MacMaster!” startifed him. “ Steornabhagh” ? Chuir Mac ’ic Dhubhgaill The Laird needs this land to Then she crumpled in a heap He caught the kitten by the feoil mo chnamh’ orm. mafc’ better use of it. Ye can on the ground, dead. A bright- tail and threw in up into the ANSWERS Is e MacFhionghuinn mo al! go to Ameriky, if ye want. red fleck of blood made its air, drawing his pistol at the chnaimh smearail. Ii’H baud ye all.” slow way out of her mouth. same time. He fired at his fal- 1. atIn 4,406the Highlands feet. ; “Ben Nevis” The man MacMaster turned The late summer sun was set- ling target and laughed as the 2. It is the Book of Deer which to face the huddled, fear-grip- ting when MacMaster and his animal hit the ground in a mass contains half a dozen entries in RAIL LINK ped, bewildered crowd of dazed eviction party stood on a small of blooded fur. Gaelic of grants of land made men, women and children with knoll and looked at the many “ That’s the way to do it, to the monastery of Deer about vative,Mr GordonMoray Campbelland Nairn), (Conser- has mesmerised looks in their eyes plumes of black smoke that boys ! ” MacMaster said in a the eleventh century. asked the Minister of Transport, as they watched the cottage and rose from what was once the trembling voice. “ That’s how 3. IsleMr Ianof MacLeodSkye, who of taughtKilmaluag, at what consideration she is giving others beyond, crackle in a village of Garrybheag. In the to ... ” Tolsta, Dig, in 1814. to the proposal for a rail link be- frenzy of destruction. distance small figures ran after M 'cMaster never really knew 4. Burras. on-Speytween Aviemore which was and contained Grantown- in “ Then God’s shame be on cows and sheep, frightened into what hit him. 5. Rinn lain (Kaid) Mhic a the report of the Technical Group you for ever, MacMaster! ” the panic by the sound of the fires A shrill, thin-cutting, fur- Lathainn. Sgiathanach. on the Cairngorsm area. voice cried out again. and the smell of burning. In covered cry sprang at his 6. An Eilean Me. Mr John Morris, Joint Parlia- MacMaster pinned down the the farther distance was the throat from the heather. The 7. For hand-knitted hosiery. mentaryreply, says: Secretary, “ The needin afor written such voice to an old woman, of in- shimmer of the sea. There dead kitten’s mother, with 8. It is a Wallflower. (Lus-leth- a rail service was taken into ac- credible age, almost completely would be shelter on the shore death in her claws and teeth, an-t-Samhraidh). count by the previous Minister enveloped in a dark, unrelieved to-night, at least. To-morrow attacked him in a fury of anger 9. the1st January,“lolaire” 1919.disaster The when date over of when he gave his consent to the dress of home-dyed cloth. would have enough of its own and anguish. MacMaster fell 200 Lewis soldiers and sailors withdrawal of passenger services worries. over on his back, uttering a returning home from the war March,between 1965.Aviemore and Forres, in “ Who are ye ? ” he shouted. “ That’s another good stretch fear-choked cry for help. were drowned within sight of “ If there were a strong local “Ye auld wreck o’ a carlin ! ” of land cleared for the Laird’s His men ran towards him the island shore. case for the restoration of the The woman threw a harsh plans,” MacMaster said. “ It’s with their knives ready to 10. Am baile Bhragair, am Barabhais service, we would expect to re- laugh at him. Garrymhor to-morrow, men.” plunge into the cat’s back. The sa bhliadhna 1866. ceive a recommendation to that “ They call me Black Kirsty He turned and walked animal was an easy target. A 11. Su-liomad or Sugh-liomaid. ningeffect Council.”from the • Economic Plan- They say too that I have the through the high heather to- couple of well-placed thrusts 12. lain MacMhathain a Bragair. evil eye. He-he-he ! ” wards a low, round wall of and the cat fell away from Mac- She cocked her head side- plain, lichen-covered stones. Master’s bleeding face with a ways, like a bird listening for “ Hot work needs a good thin snarl. a fat worm moving in the earth, drink of water,” he said, loosen- “ Tammas ! Are ye hurt ? ” Croit Anna Hotel and looked at those behind her. ing off his soiled cravat The man writhing about on They flinched visibly as she “Not there, Tammas ! ” the ground only moaned in a FORT WILLIAM ran her black, shiny eyes over MacMaster turned round with growing agony of pain. The them. a snort of annoyance and sound flushed startled birds up 2^ miles from Town Centre “ He-he,” she cackled. “ Ave, squinted at his men. from the surrounding heather indeed, so they say. But never “ What’s wi’ ye ? Is it into the hovering sky. Panoramic view of Loch Linnhe, backed you mind, my dears. Black poisoned ? ” “ Tammas ! Tammas ! ” Kirsty will see you revenged “ No, Tammas. But that’s But one look at MacMaster by the Mountains of Treslaig and Ardgour yet! My vengeance for this what they Hielan’ folks ca’ the was enough to tell any man with eyes to see that ’here was one man who would never see an- The Ideal Half-Way House Livestock Removals other day — for as long as he lived. for the Highlands and Islands EWEN MACRAE A Modern Hotel Crossal - - Skye WesterThe InformationRoss Tourist Bureau Association of the offering real Highland hospitality FOR PERSONAL SERVICE hasperiod now until been the endre-opened of September. for a 57 bedrooms, 22 with private bath Phone SLIGACHAN 20 1 The Bureau will deal with all totraffic deal information with accommodation in the area, anden- Resident Proprietors Mr and Mrs G. K. WATT Private Hire Feeding Stuffs quiries. Last summer something Telephone Fort William 226 8 likeBureau. 5,000 visitors called at the Sruth, Di-ardaoin, 18 An Ceitein, 1967 NINE

ovg r ® • • • IAIN TIME VET • • • • to you: are worse. If you don’t get some HeJimmy is also Young new tois afarming. new client. A dry bedding on the floor you’ll thoseAvoid which buying are weakscouring. calves and Aberdeen University the land, its people and the few days ago he bought six or have to bury them. And while On arrival give the calves two Celtic Society, tourists. seven young calvfes from a dealer. your at it get a sack and stuff to three pints of warm water with University Union, Last year there was chaos on Jimmy’s plan was to feed the it under the door. There’s a fear- glucose added. Keep to this diet Broad Street, the roads and congestion in the excess milk from his dairy cows fulI draught.”was angry at seeing young formilk. 24 Theyhours shouldthen graduallybe on a addfull Aberdeen, lowhomes, the this same year pattern, is likely and to fol-too stores,to the atcalves, the backthen end. sell them as animals so badly treated and had milk diet after three days. A’ Charaid, often the wife boasts an income But Jimmy’s plan seemed to spoken rather sharply to Jimmy. Offer good hay as early as pos- Bu chaomh leam air leth that the husband cannot achieve, calveshave backwere fired.very illTwo and, of according the new better.But he probably did’nt know any gestivesible. Thissystem. promotes a good di- a’ Chomuinn againn meal an forwhere him as toyet benefit there directlyis no means from to the phone message I got, Between us we made the calves Give the calves a dry bed. If naidiheachd a chuir oirbh an unplanned tourist industry seemed likely to die. more comfortable, using a good this tends to get damp, slip an airson a” phaipeir ur The main party of students will I slipped out after evening sur- deep bed of dry straw. We nailed old door between the floor and “Sruth.” Tha sinn an dochas be resident in Poolewe School gery. sacks around the pen so that all the straw. The wood insulates the gun teid gu math dhuibh leis, during the first week of July. Jimmy’s face was doleful when Jimmythe draughts had anwere infra-red eliminated. lamp calvessure that from any the wood floor. used But ismake un- agus gum bi e air a leughadh Yours etc., I arrived.“ Ah, vet. Those calves look which was used for his sows when painted or is painted with lead- fad is farsaing, agus cuid- ALEXANDER MACIVER worse.” farrowing. We fitted it above the free paint. eachd tnin dean daoine feum Pcolewe School “ Let’s have a look at them calves and switched it on. At the first sign of illness in a dheth, gu h-araidh muinntir Poolewe first before we get too depressed,” “ Now We’ll try to treat the calf, isolate it at once and get na Gaidhealtachd fhein, air- Achnasheen I suggested. disease.”I gave each calf an antibiotic veterinaryJimmy couldadvice. see where he’d son am beachdan mu an Ross-shire 1/5/67 It Hewas ledfairly me dark through and quitethe byre.cold. injection in the rump and took a made a few mistakes and he had gnothaichean fhein a leigeil I stumbled on until he stopped to swab of the scour from under some questions. am follais. LOCH NESS MONSTER fumble for the light switch. their tails. “ What on earth is colostrum?” Soirbheachadh math “ Here they are. Don’t they look so’s“ That’swe’ll knowfor theexactly lab whatto-morrow germ calved“ It’s cows’a material milk. Itin containsnewly leibh! Sir,—As I do not exist, mythic- terribleI looked ? ” at the two pathetic is causing the scour. Meanwhile necessary vitamins and antibodies. Leis gach deagh dhurachd, Ially, like it aboutmeans thethat existence I can say of what the babies. give each calf a couple of these These help the calf to fight Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn Loch Ness Monster. “ I’ve seen better,” I said, “but tablets dissolved in warm water.” against certain diseases. The calf (Ceann-suidhe) The subject matter, “ The what bacame of their bedding? Jimmy was quite subdued and I must have colostrum within six Monster,” is very dear to my The poor beasts are frozen.” onfelt him.a little guilty at being so hard ishours not of absorbed birth. After into that the timecalf’s it heart,fident andthat I noam “completely Monster ” con-will notHe having mumbled much something straw to aboutspare Let’s go inside and have a cup blood stream.” STUDENT SURVEY OF ever be found. However, that is for calves. of tea while we sort out this busi- “ What about the two calves out GAIRLOCH PARISH noshould reason be treatedwhy “with our ”disdain Monster or They were confined in a small ness of calf rearing.” to-morrowin the byre. ? ”Do I give them milk Sir,—With rare scenic beauty, contempt, and to even suggest woodendoor. The pen, bars nextof the to pen an and outer the grammeOver ourfor teathe wecare made of theup acalves pro- “ No ! After I’ve gone, give able to attract 100,000 visitors arrowsshooting ” atis itbeneath with " bowsits lordly and floor were spattered with white already on the farm and for glucose.each a drinkTo-morrow of warm stick water to that.and Ewe,each Invereweyear to the Gardens shores is ofin Lochdan- dignity. diarrhoea.The calves could only have been futureon paper arrivals. so that Wehe would’ntgot it dow,'* for- I’ll look in sometime to see how ger of drawing more tourists to BurghAs ChairmanSociety for of thethe PreventionInverness a few weeks old. Their eyes were get the details. Here’s the gist of they are.’” Gairloch Parish than the people of Cruelty to Animals, I have a sunken in the sockets and they it. themI couldbefore not I leftresist . peeping at herein a canpast nowage, easilywhen thecater people for. Asof genuine weapon at hand in the couldn’tI checked stand. their temperatures breederBuy calves and makedirect certain from athey known are They were brighter and seemed the glens went with their flocks shapeInspector, of aMr worldly D. Munro, and worthywhose and wasn’t surprised at the read- at least one week old. to be fairly comfortable. It was to the summer sheilings on the job it is to see that no harm ings. They were below normal! Make sure that they have had stillthey touchnow hadand ago. fighting But atchance. least slopesremove of themselves the mountains, but only now a thevfew come to the denizens of the deep “I’m hardly surprised your calves colostrum from their mothers. yards to the nearby caravan (too or Notof theonly fields have and we sky. in Inverness oftenmud), surroundedwhile the peopleby a seaof theof pur own private Society for Pre- South take over the newly - car- alsovention have of Crueltythe S.S.P.C.A., to Animals, whose we Gaelic Broadcasts Biala Reagaid — M.P. Welcomes petedIn somedwellings cases for thesea season houses Inspector. Mr Bosworth, will also Thursday, 18th May stand on hard-won sites, gained be Alla forceI ask tois thatreckon we with.leave ‘ our" 12.00 News in Gaelic. Gaidhlig an Countryside Bill by forefathers whose houses in Monster alone to show herself oi 12.05 Da Cheathramh agus Fonn Welcoming the principle of the weresuch hillburnt communities to the ground as Kernsary by the himself as and when the spirit (Verse and Chorus). Rathaid Mhoir Countryside (Scotland) Bill in the landlord’s lackeys. movesI intend — not rousingtoo often. her every 4.15 Gaelic Midweek Service, Is docha nach eil fhios aig Scottish Grand Committee re- Is is, however, from the South Spring in good time for the conducted by Rev. Angus moran gu bheil canan aig muinn- cently, Mr Michael Noble (C. that sympathy comes for these tourist season, but woe betide any- corded).MacLeod, Caldercruix (re- tir an rathaid mhoir ris an canadh Argyll) said: “I am delighted people, too strongly bound by the one foolish enough to “make a 7.00—V.H.F.—“In the Highlands” iad “ Biala reagaid.” ’S e seorsa that, in this respect, Scotland is bonds of blood never to .lave de- foolish" of our Monster. — An all sorts magazine— leading England as far as legis- parted from this too-bar-en land. ingI don’tto the want Highlands any tourist expecting com- comment, interview, music Gaidhlig a tha innte a tha gle GlasgowA group School of students of Art, from led theby her, as if “on tap,” but that they and songs from Gaeldom dhuilichaig duine a tuigsinn.co as a Chanthainig eil ifhios ach lation is concerned.” B. K. Parnell, senior lecturer, De- eniov the beautiful surroundings (recorded). tha feadhainn ag radh gur e seorsa MinisterThe Billof State,was saidMr Dicksonby the partment of Planning, have whichmythical housescreature theon earth.—greatest 10.45 “ Bardachd a’ Chogaidh de “ bhack slang ” a bha innte a Mabon, who opened the debate, started a general survey of Gair- Yours etc.. DerickWar PoetryThomson, selected Professor by bha air a cleachdadh aig ua baird to provide the framework for a lochas a focusParish. of Theyfuture see development this area (Ex-Provost) W. J. MACKAY. of Celtic at Glasgow Uni- GhaidhealachCo-dhiubh seo ’san facalt-seann noaimisir. dha real advance in opening up the and hope to produce by Novem- Inverness versity (recorded). dhith: orderlycountryside manner for recreationconsistent inwith an ber, 1967. a report that will guide Friday, 19th May Lumb=£l, sgorrach=tasdan, grad Scotland’s great natural beauty. and instruct any who are inter- - airgiod, gloch = bodach, = noid Mr Noble, speaking from the boardested tovillages build inanything any of thesethat sea-will HIGHLANDERS — 12.00 News in Gaelic. =duine, liugach=gille, beor caill- Opposition front bench, said that be for the continued welfare of LITTER BUGS 6.35 “cert Seinn of anGaelic Duan Sosongs Con- re- each, gearrach-boireannach, guia- if Scotland was slightly behind in Sir,—For three years I worked quested by listeners (re- nean.banaich=brogan, teamban = gloigein-stocam-piob - smocaidh, a lot of her industrial develop- near Elgin, and have always re- corded). dadaitrtomhaca, cian=tigh, cian- pectment, inthere the wasScottish a particular countryside as- T I G H-O S DA gretted my move to so-called bin=tent, sguith=uisage, sguith- for perhaps the most imaginative my‘ civilisation.’ annual holiday So I greatlyin the High-enjoy theit=uisge beatha, a’buisearach= planning for any part of Europe. PHENTLAND lands in April. This year the ap- nesssome ofand your littered most conditionattractive re-of ageea, ol,deacar=suil, runndal=botal, bi=beul, sgladach= guisean “ If we do not take action, the INBHIR-THEORSA pearance of ‘ Sruth ’ was an added gions. I will only quote two ex- do bhi=duin do bheul. Tha Gaidh- thoughtopportunity and forplanning really and careful deve- Air leth freagarrach airson theinterest; venture, I would and encloselike to asupport year’s amples — %ny reader can check lig cheart aca agus a’ Bheurla lopment is lost for all time,” he teaghiaichean air thurus is subscription. on their authenticity. cuideachd agus uaireannan cainnt said. iasgairean nan lochan ’s nan Now may I add a tourist’s re- beachAt Lochcarrannearly as denselywe found popula- the iseile trice dh’an ’s ainme an “ Cantfheadhainn ” ach maraig “ One has only to look at cer- aibhnichean ’s an Taobh-Tuath. ply to the comments by Kenneth ted with cola tins, beer bottles, nach eil Gaidhlig a tha ’ga cleach- tain areas of England which 2C Macrae in your first issue (6th etc., as cobbles; and as we were dadh. unspoiltor 30 years beauty ago and had charm the whichsame Am biadh as fearr. monthApril). wereMy frequentlyfriend and distressed I this about to return across the bridge Whilst only Gaelic speakers we still have in great parts of Gabhar gu maith ruibh to see evidence that the Highlan- tofrom Leiws, the weIsland were of held Great up Benerawhilst know Biala reagaid all “ the Scotland. le ders and Islanders themselves con- an islander (surely ?) emptied Cant,people a ofmixture the road of Roamny,” know somecant Because of the rapid develop- Fear an Tighe ’sa Bhean tribute to the conspicuous dirti- three sackfuls of metallic and and slang words based on English tourism,ment of andthe motorbecause car there and wasof SEORAS IS FREDA SUTHARLAN(contjnue(j at fOQt cf next co|umn) carglass intorefuse the from sea thebelow. boot We of felthis syntax and grammar. Here are a not careful thinking ahead, these rather foolish to be hoarding in wherefew examples. it occurs denotesThe letter Romany. “ R ” areas have been considerably our car empty tins, paper, etc., Chains (R)=knife, gry (R)=horse, spoilt.“ It is essential that we in Scot- J. & J. MACKINTOSH placewhilst towe dump looked our for refuse. an ' official jookal (R) and yelper=dog. shan land should have an element of BUILDERS and SLATERS And the defacing of the memo- (R)(R)=bad, and barritobie=policeman, (R)=good, Moskermang= speed in our thoughts.” rial statue in the parklands at talk, nash=go, Reech=£l, hog=ls, NobleReferring said to thataccess the to land,Forestry Mr INVERNESS and DRUMNADROCHIT ofStornoway local people ■was overtly —- how the manywork wingpld, gajee (R)=man, chavee Commission were, in the older Telephone Inverness 30566 tourists scrawl their endeannents dilly(R)=boy, and racklie=girl,manishee (R)=woman,wattle=tent, days, the least co-operative of any in Gaelic ? Yours etc., kane=house, rowdie^money. chew- landownersTo-day, the he Commission knew. realised W. H. JARVIS rin=stealing, peeve=beer, deek= they had an enormous asset for Burwood House see or look. the public and had taken very ESTIMATES FREE The Avenue Nash round the kanes and sensible steps towards making Bushey mang the gajees for rowdie —• totheir the forests public and on roadssensible available terms Herts. 27/4/67 Gopeople round for themoney. houses and ask the of access. Ten Sruth, Di-ardaoin, 18 An Ceitein, 1967 Osiean tiff Cioinwte A NEAD NA H-IOLA1RE

IV. SRUTH GU LAIR "pt anti, am fuaim tha sud ? Saoil thusa an e Mgr. Mac-an-Aba tha sud a’ tighinn a nail ? ” Chualas na ceumannan aig fear-an-tighe a’ tighinn a nail S fie a 6, C ny. o ’n tigh. “ Greas ort, greas ort,” arsa LOOK ONE — I see that some Tomas ann an cagair ri Cailean, £2 million (rough estimate if other Market,asion to which go intois all thevery Common well for “ cuir bhuat a’ phiob sin.” space programmes are anything Britain. But what of the nation- Chuir Cailean sa’mhionaid a‘ to go by) has been spent by the alities which comprise this phiob am falach am measg an British .Government to send the country? At the very least a re- fheoir ’s gun ghuth aige riamh firstif there U.K. were satallite not enough into orbit of these As Scotlandferendum to should ascertain be onconducted what con- in air a’ chomhairle a thug each “ objects de science ” flying about ditions the Scottish people want , air. over our heads. Spare a long to participate in the Market. Our “ Sud e dol a steach a rithis,” thought for the amount of good nation — and who would deny arsa Beathag air a socair, feu- thisit beenmoney applied could havein other done more had awe free are participatornot a nation? in the— arrange-must be “ Tha droch eagal orm gu’n fhaighinn a mach as a so gun maidh nach eil a tighinn a nail social directions. ments to be thrashed out in Brus- tig oirnn fuireach am broinn an teagamh. Thugainn ’s theid an so idir.” worldIt is we certainly live in. aVast, topsy appropri- - turvey which,sels by by thethe Governmentway, does notteam, in- tighe an diugh,” arsa Tomas ’s sinn a null dha’n bhathaich ’s Cha b’ fhada gus an robh iad ately-described astronomical sums clude the Secretary of State for e coimhead an uisge a’ dortadh gu’m faigh sinn seanchas ri uile a’ bruidhinn a rithis, ach of money are being spent each Scotland. a nuas air an uinneig. Eachunn Each agus Beathag so ’s ann a chunnaic iad an toit yearless thanon spacetwo perresearch, cent, ofwhile the Mr William Ross should now, “ Ach, de math dhut fuireach Bo. Feuch a nis nach cuir thu ag eirigh ’na smiiid as an fheur ocean's depths have as yet been aselement representative in the Britishof the Govern-Scottish a stigh a leithid so a latha ? a’ chonnlach ’na teine leis a’ a bh’air an lar. mapped. Less shades of Flash ment, speak on how he feels fhreag&ir Cailean gu gearain- phiob an uilc tha sin.” Leig Tomas sgiamh as. “ An Gordon and more of Stingray are Scotland would benefit by not tak- each, “’s ann bu choir dhuinn “ Nach tu tha gorach ! ” teine, an teine, mo chreach surelyAt present required. we know more about ing part in the forthcoming talks. a dhol a mach a chluich anns fhreagair Cailean, “ nach eil mhor, an teine,” dh’eigh e, ’s the surface of the moon than we be Ifnationalised the grocery and business we all were had to na loin. Nach e bhitheadh math fhios agad gle mhath nach e leum gu bucaid uisge. do about extensive areas which shop at “ Wilsons,” how would a dhol a null agus Curstaidh deanainn-sa rud cho luideach “ Mo phiob, cait a bheil mo lie beneath some 329 million we feel? Particularly as our food Cearc a ruagadh a mach as an sin.” phiob? ” ghlaodh Cailean, agus cubic feet of salt water, covering bill, which is high enough al- tigh-chearc! Tha fhios agad Bha an dorus mor fosgailte thoisich e air riirach am measg aboutearth's seventysurface. per cent, of the ready, would increase. Scotland is, agus a null thuige ghabh an an fheoir, a’ lorg na pioba. sectoran agricultural of our economy country; may yet wellthis fhein a’ ghrain a th’ aicese air dithis. Sheas iad an sin mionaid “ An aire dhut fhein ! ” arsa pointThere in wouldoceanic be research. much moreFor be the hardest hit. an uisge. ’S e spors eagalach a no dha a’ coimhead a mach. Beathag an uair a chunnaic i the ocean must provide much of Seanfhacal — “ Smaointich gu bhitheadh ann ! ” “ Sud thu nis ! ” dh’ eigh Tomas a’ dortadh an uisge air humanity’s requirements in the not math an toiseach. Deanadar “ Seadh gu dearbh,” arsa Tomas, agus ruith an dithis cho an fheur agus air Cailean aig too distant future. A famous and an sin." — Consider well in the Tomas, “ an e sin bu mhath luath ’s a bha ’nan cnamhan a a’ cheart am. Bha chomhairle responsible American scientist has first place, then act. leatsa ? Feumaidh gu bheil thu null chun na bathcha. so ro fhada gun tighinn agus an ofdeclared the monev that ifsp:nt only inten developing per cent, air do chuimhn’ a chall. Bheil “ O-ho, tha iad fhein air uair a dh’ eirich Cailean a mach the atomic borne had been allo- AN COMUNN GAIDHEALACH cuimhn’ agad idir de thachair tighinn,” ars Eachunn Each air as an fheur agus sruth gu lar cated to the purpose, then we an turas mu dheireadh a rinn a shocair ri Beathag Bo, “’s as sheall e air Tomas a should have by now produced an sinn sin? Cha tug Mgr. Mac- bidh trioblaid ’nan cois mar is thuirt e ris, “ Cha robh mis economically-feasiblesalting sea water to waymake of de-the NATIONAL MOD an-Aba greim de dh’ iasg iir abhaist.” air a bhith cho fliuch ri so na’n deserts of the world prosper and GLASGOW, 1967 dhomhsa fad co-la-deug, agus ‘Se each mor trom, laidir a robh mi air a dhol a chluiche many hungry millions well-fed. 3rd - 6th October cha d’ fhuair mi norradh cadail th’ann an Eachunn agus tha e ’s na loin mar a bha mi ’g ’By the end of this century it is fad thri seachdainnean ’s tusa fhein agus Beathag, bo bhreagha iarraidh ! ” estimated thall (barring a holocaust casadaich’s a’ sreathartaich gun bhreac, air a bhith fuireach air populationwhich God will forbid) be some the 6000 world’s mil- FINALpetitors EN3in a,'7IES sections, —Intending Junior com- and sgur. B’ fheudar dhomh mu a’ chroit o chionn iomadh lion — twice that of to-day. Acre Adult, are reminded that entries dheireadh am meadasan a bliadhna nis. for acre, oceanic food potential must be despatched to arrive not ghoid as a’ phreasa dhut. ’S “ Tha . . . sinn . . . air . . . is greater that that of the land. later than FRIDAY, 26th MAY. chan eil a dhith ort a nis ach tighinn . . . air . . . cheilidh . . . So why don’t we get to the bot- BARDIC CROWN COMPETITION an dearbh rud a dheanamh a oirbh,” arsa Tomas, agus anail creasingtom of thein problemproportions which every is dayin- —Entries are invited for the Bardic rithis. Feumaidh nach eil thusa ’na uchd. L-eig e ’na shineadh as people die simply because they tionCrown is Competition.open to a Gaelic The Competi-poem on glic ! ” air an lar ri taobh Eachainn. have little or nothing to eat . any subject, traditional or modern “ Och, chord an gnothuch Shocraich Cailean e fhein anns Instead of aiming at. the moon. style : its length being left to the gasda rium fhin, cnatan ann no an fheur ri taobh na ba agus LOOK TWO — I have a few competitors’ discretion. as,” arsa Cailean agus siiil aige thug e a’ phiob agus am bocsa suggestions to put to the High- NOVA SCOTIA GOLD MEDAL: air a’ bhocsa tombaca air sgeilp mhaidseachan a mach as a lands and Islands Development peteThose this who year qualify in andthe wishNova to Scotia com- an t-simileir, “ agus; co-dhiiibh sporan. “ Thoir an aire,” arsa Board—they can have them for Vocal Competition must submit chan urrainn dhomh smoc a Beathag, “ feuch nach cuir thu free. And to put them into opera- their names and the appropriate ghabhail an so an drasda. Co cail ’na theine.” willtion costfor themuch benefit less thanof their £50 areamil- entry fee, 2/6 or 1/-, immediately aige tha fhios cuin a dh’ fhao- “ Tha mise an deidh’s com- lion and do a lot more good to after their local or provincial Mod dadh Mgr. Mac-an-Aba tighinn hairle thoirt air cheana mu a lot more people. a steach ? ” dheidhinn sin,” arsa Tomas. First, set up a technical library PROVINCIAL MOD PRIZE- “ Tha mise coma ged nach Cha do leig Cailean air gu’n Dar a thig an “ Common Mar- facilityindustries to canwhich have small access Highland for in- winnersWINNERS: at Entrieslocal fromand firstprovincial prize- fhaigheadh tu smoc gu brath,” cual’ e iad — bha e ro thrang ket agus na Frangaich is na formation to develop existing lines Mods held after the closing date arsa Tomas, “ ach cha bhit- a’ tarruing as a’ phiob. Eadailtich 'na luib feumaidh sinn of production and realise the pot- will be accepted if forwarded headh e dona quairt bheag “ Uist,” ars Eachunn, “ de a bhith glasadh an doruis ential of others. cernedwithin threetaking daysplace. of the Mod con- teid sinn a laighe. IAIGEAN a Second,public relationsoffer to craftfacility, industries to in- clude print design, advertising, CONDITIONSentrants in theFOR Senior ENTRY: Section All “Meet the Navy Tour” andThree, the like.offer a market research (Vocal Solos, Duets, Instrumental GOUDIES of BOTHWELL Ltd. During a special two-month facility. Crofters are in particular becomeand Arts Branch,and Industry) Annual must or beLife or Cover Your Work Specialists in Awkward Conversions “ Meet the Navy ” tour of 25 need of this professional element Members. Subscriptions of Branch Unitedder Class Kingdom frigate ports,H.M.S. the Phoebe Lean- Commissionir. sales techniques. might wellThe Croftersbe the and Ordinary Members already on of Polythene and P.V.C. is to visit Rosyth (May 15-22), body to offer this service, but at year,the roll 1967-68, must be notpaid laterfor the than current the Manufacturers of the “ Gowell ” (MayAberdeen 25). (Maythe Kyles/Mallaig/Oban 22-24), Stornoway started.least the Board should get it closing date. Sealer for the Final Closure of (May 26-28); Greenock (May 29- Four, set up a technical ad- willThe be age determined group of Juniorin relation entrants to Polythene and P.V.C. Packages. 31) and Glasgow (May 31-June 2). concertvisory section,with the possibly work whichto act thein their age on 26th May, 1967. Dates Stockists of All Sizes of Polythene showThe the aim general of the public visits what are lifeto Scottish Country Industries De- of birth of all Junior entrants, in- Sheeting. Manufacturers of Poly- is like in the modem Royal Navy. velopment Trust is doing in the dividualssubmitted andalong duettists,with their must entries. be thene Plain and Printed Bags. 25,000It is peopleexpected will that visit morethe frigate than Board’sFive, persuadearea. Education Auth- during its tour. Parties of school- orities to provide technical edu- theCopies 1967 ofSupplement the Syllabus, of prescribedprice 2/-, Polythene Shaped Covers 29/35 Main Street boys, Sea Cadets and Naval ele- cation facilities in those craft sub- pieces, price 6d, Arts and Industry keep out dust and corrosion willments be of taken Combined for demonstrations Cadet Forces village-industrylets which are potentialactivities; home-or- particu- Syllabus, Entry Forms and pre- BOTHWELL . LANARKSHIRE of the ship’s capabilities. larly those which are dying be- Comunnscribed songsOffices are at available Abertarff from House, An Phone : Bothwell 3396 At weekends the ship will nor- cause of lack of recruits. Inverness, and 65 West Regent | mally be in harbour and will be LOOK THREE—Despite opposi- Street, Glasgow, C.2. | openand Sundayto the afternoons.public on Saturday tion, Mr Wilson has-taken the de Sruth, Di-ardaoin, 18 An Ceitein, 1967 Eleven Talking: MacKenzies remember a forgotten hero New Look For Point Highland Landmark Restored In TV programmes such as NationarMod Twenty-fourand Reporting Hours, 67 we Panorama are in- By EWEN SORLEY inSite U.S.A.. — One proclaiming Mile Ahead," “ Historical would EMPHASIS ON ART formed of matters which are Kenneth A. Macrae's timely " You have killed your Prince.” be welcomed by visitors and all AND INDUSTRY troubling the Nation at its article in the first issue of It would appear that MacKenzie’s who are interested in Scotland's centre in London. The proposed '• Sruth." about the possibly in- encounter with the English troops, travellers-bypast, Philistines need andnot frequentremove In an effort to widen the ap- changes in the majority rule in touristsadvertent along damage me donesuperb by scenicsome death,and the weresubsequent not entirely manner unpre-of nis the foot from the accelerator! peal of the National Mod, An English jury trials are exercis- route westwards to Kintail, was meditated. He knew of his re- I have not mentioned the lady Comunnding the scopeGaidhealach of the areArts exten- and ing the minds of those con- welcome,, and, as it happens, very semblance to Prince Charles, and correspondent in America by Industry section. This section has. cerned. It is quite obvious that topical. Although 1 can’t speaic is reported as having successfully wishname heras Ianonymity am sure that to beshe respec-would in the past, tended to be very they have no idea of what has with any first-hand knowledge occasions.acted as Hisa decoywords onand previousmanner ted, but I must say here that, much the poor relation of the prevailed for so long and so theabout famous the recentfootprints desecration of Glen- at of his death, however, were re- such is her intense interest (and music competitions. successfully in Scotland and moriston, I can write a happier sponsible for the curtailment of she has reason to believe from old Eisteddfod,Following Mr the D. visit J. Mackay,to the 1966 the that the answer to their per- story about Roderick Mac- the military search for the letters and papers of her Mac- Director, made certain recommen- plexities is close at hand. Kenzie’s Cairn and Grave in the Prince, and it was only after thatKenzie she sharesgreat-great-grandmother the same immedi- dations for the extension of the The approach of Common wheresame glen.the historicalIt is a tale.sentiment I think, of deceptionmany dsys wasthat discovered.his self-sacrificing There ate ancestry as Roderick), she has Arts and Industry and the syllabus market naturally worries many an exile has been combined with cannot be any doubt that this was offered to underwrite the costs of has now been released by An English people and Scots too, local pride and patriotism (not to prove an essential link in the the venture. When I mentioned Comunn.greater variety There of iscompetitions a very much in particularly as to how the forgetting hard, work) to achieve chain of circumstances which hethis saidto oneproudly, MacKenzie “ I am clansman,sure that both junior and adult sections and United Kingdom will fare politi- awarming really result.worth-while and heart- successfulallowed the escape Prince in theto makeend. his those of Chlann Choinnich still for the first time competitions are cally when the Treaty of Rome It would seem that some of our Possibly because of pride in her here in Scotland will be honoured introduced for Youth Clubs and becomes fully operative and heroes, like the prophets of old, ancestral blood, the American tothat see ourthis MacKenziejob through." friend I hope in W.R.I. much of the governing of the are without honour in their own letter-writerMacKenzie’s goes“ self-sacrifice on to assert was that a America and others throughout intoAn the Comunn’s commercial recent field haveventures re- Common Market countries will appearcountry. to Thisbe theat heart-cryleast would in a more noteworthy event than any- the world will make the pilgrim- sulted in special competitions be- be done from Brussels. letter received recently from thing that Flora MacDonald did ageon theirto Glenmoristonnext visits to Scotland.with pride ing introduced for record sleeve Once again some indication U.S.A., in which the writer, her- tois ahelp sizeable the Prince,monument and toyet Flora's there It is a pleasant thought, too, and Christmas card designs. of what happens in such cir- selfplored of theMacKenzie state into descent, which theDe- memory, and she has received that the sad state of affairs re- For the 1967 Mod, An Comunn cumstances can be found within Cairn to the memory of Roderick notable recognition in the history vealed by Kenneth A. Macrae in arefor thefortunate Arts andin havingIndustry available exhibi- our own boundaries. What we MacKenzie and his grave nearby of Scotland, while Roderick the columns of “ Sruth,’’ should tion, the McLellan Galleries in have forgotten is that the Act had been allowed to fall. She seems to be remembered only by satisfactoryhave such sequel.an immediate Now for andthe Glasgow. The Galleries will be of Union between Scotland and also mentioned that on two visits afellow-countrymen ruinous cairn, and havefew of everhis footprints ! taken over for the whole of Mod England was nothing more oncountry successive she hadsummers been togreatly this heard of him or even know week. The Arts Council will be than an early Common Market. saddened oy her inability to get where his cairn is! " Without providing paintings by Scottish Many in Scotland opposed it at information about him from what taking sides or weighing up their At the recent A.G.M. of the artiststion of andArchitects the Royal in Scotland, Incoipora- the the time and for long little she thought would be reliable werespective can in heroism.all honesty I admitthink that Oban Branch of An Comunn, the Floral Art Clubs of Scotland and material benefit accrued from peoplesources, whoand bysaid the they’d number never of we have paid but scant regard to followingpointed : — office-bearers were ap- the Scottish Photographic Federa- it. But eventually it brought com- even heard of him. Yet two cen- this hero of the Forty-Five, President — Mr Donald Thom- tion have also offered to assist in mercial and industrial growth turies ago Roderick MacKenzie s whom the late Dr Calum Mac- son; Vice-Presidents — Mrs A. theirAn variousComunn sections. Gaidhealach hope because of the wider markets name and gallant self-secrifice describedLean, a notedas " Gaelicthe saddest foik-lonV. and Robertson. Mrs Gillies. Messrs that competitors and exhibitors in made available. On the political werelaments well-known had been and written poems in andhis noblest figure in the history of son.Hugh A. MacIntyre, J. MacLeod; Donald Hon Morri-Secre- the senior sections will take the and culural side, by and large, honour. Glenmoriston." One is tempted tary — Mr R. L. M. Banks; Hon. opportunity of using this as a most Scots people are satisfied, Many motorists travelling from to speculate on how Dr Samuel Treasurer — Miss Isa MacIntyre. sales outlet. although there are dissenters, the Great Glen on the A.887 to- Johnson,route for who Skye passed in 1773,this waymight en regarded by English people as wards Kintail will have noticed have immortalised Roderick Mac- of no consequence, if not some- roadsidethe remants about of histhirteen Cairn atmiles the Kenzie had he known of his what insane. Generally those west of Invermoriston. If they loyalty and fate. After all, he James Pringle Ltd. who are not satisfied emigrate. had stopped, they would have saidher nameof Florawould MacDonaldgo down in thathis- HOLM WOOLLEN MILLS INVERNESS With the example of Scot- slabread inthis the inscription Cairn : oil a stone tory. and, “ if courage and SKYE WOOLLEN MILLS PORTREE land before us there is no fidelity be virtues, then mentioned * Sic * reason why the English shouid RODERICKAt this spot inMACKENZIE, 1746 died with honour." My own feeling not fit comfortably into the an officer in the army of fromis that all thatRoderick I have MacKenzie,been able Spinners and Weavers of Exclusive New Europe. Provided of course Princeof the sameCharles size Edward and similar Stuart, to find out or read about him, Hand Knitting Wools, Tweeds and Travelling Rugs they play their part as loyally resemblance to his royal prince, wasthis fineeminently epitaph. worthy to share sic * * as Scots have done in the when surrounded and over- The letter from America to Visitors are welcome to view an interesting process Mini-Common Market. powered which I referred above was not PHONE: 31042/3 R Cumberland.by the troops Gallantlyof Duke ofdied in the starting point for the work attempting to save his fugitive hasand actedevents as now a catalytic in train, agent but toit manProfessor of the HighlandsRobert Grieve. and IslandsChair- leader from further pursuit. a number of interested individuals Development Board, carried out a butThis, presupposes then, gives that the thebald readerfacts, country.and bodies A in doctorvarious inparts Inverness, of the four-day tour of Lewis. Harris and is aware (as every Scottish school- with historical and antiquarian representativesthe Uists, this week,of district when councils he met boy should be) of the tradition interests; a scientist in Lanark and crofters interests. that,Redcoats' as hebullets, fell dyinghe exclaimedfrom the married to a MacKenzie. and who SANDEMAN aknew noted the .naturalist sad state ofin theSkye Cairn; who tion;had longa number agitated of for enthusiasts its restora- in SO AGAD SOGH theEdinburgh, Clan MacKenzieand a well-knownSociety of SCOTCH NACH BRIS DO PHOC genealogy;writer of theirclan individiual histories effortsand bho andpooled. knowledge “The 1745have Association now been ” ofmade restoration, a donation and towards this hasthe costsbeen frommatched the Nationalby a similar Trust fordonation Scot- The King of Whiskies theland. ForestryPermission Commission, was granted onby whoselie, for landrestoration the Cairn and andtidying Grave up prepared.to go ahead, and plans were AN INDEPENDENT TARPAIDEAN deth gach seors’ connaissanceIn the middle party of organisedMarch a re-by WHISKY OF OUTSTANDING ofthe InvernessClan MacKenzie went down Association to Cean- CHARACTER Airson Samhlaichean is Tuairmsean cuiribh an coupon so gu: nacroc in Glenmoriston. With SEUMAS MACCOINNICH, Taobh na Mara, Clach na fair weather and hard work the Fhaire, Inbhir-Nis. Tel. 33935 markingjob of therebuilding Grave andthe making Cairn, it Cuiribh samhlaichean/tuairmsean gu more accessible should be com- Roderickpleted shortly, MacKenzie and the willmemory be re-of nessdeemed. County A finalCouncil touch could by Inver- well beto thethe easterection and ofwest, warning for this notices is a fast(even stretch more ofso road the and Grave) the Cairn can ‘ Se Righ nan Uisge Beatha ” easilyA sign, be such passed as I withoutsaw frequently notice. TWELVE Sruth, Di-ardaoin, 18 An Ceitein, 1967

Fewer Newtonmore’s SUIL AIR CARAICHEAN Cattle Sales Glorious ri a thaobh ag iarraidh fois a Auctioneers and crofters Cup Record An Wolseley 18/85 gairdeananghabhail. A airbharrachd na suidheachain air seo tha met in South Uist recently to Rha daoine riamh a’ saoilsinn toisich. Tha lionadh air a h-uile discuss the suggestion that by Sinteag torr dhe na caraichean Wolseley dathn uinneig na cnomfaa-frangaich air a dheanamh mar air a suidheachan a tha ’gan deanamh the number of cattle sales in Since Kingusssie defeated agus tha Cuideachd Wolseley an tha e anns na caraichean Wolseley gle chomhartail. the Uists be reduced. At the Glasgow Cowal 2-0 in Inver- dochas gu mair cuisean mar sin. uile agus tha a mhullach, am pios pocaidAig bonnmhor aa h-uilechumas doruis bagaic- tha moment there are five stances ness in 1 896, . the Caman- Thacaraichean an sgil a agusdhioghlaim an t-eolas iad airre a tha a stigh ris an uinneig, air hean laimhe, cairtean-iuil no rud in South Uist, one in Ben- achd Cup, Scotland’s premier nam bliadhnaichean a tha iad an a’ghriana dheanamh a’dearrsadh dubh airson ann nachan sui- bi sam bith eile a tha sibh ag iar- becula and three in North shinty trophy, has been com deaghaidh bhith a’ deanamh lean an fhir stiuiridh. Tha e bog raidh a chur annta. Tha stiallan Uist. The auctioneers and peted for 59 times. Newton charaichean air an cuir gu buil cuideachd air eagal tubaist. sonos cionn fasgaidh na h-uinneiga thoirt seachadtoisich bhoair- buyers feel that this number more have made 29 appear- anns18/85. a’char ur aca an Wolseley A stigh ri bonn na h-uinneig ’n ghrein. Air glasan nan dorsan could be easily reduced. ances and won the cup 16 ’S urrainn sibh an t-aon earbsa atha chumas da tholl antroimh uinneag an tiggun blaths fas cuil tha sneacan airson nach ur- For some years the cattle times, to establish a record a chur anns a’ char ur seo agus ceothach. Chi sibh toll eile far rainn clann am fosgladh, dealers have found that it is of unparalleled consistency tha e a cheart cho grinn is cho am faod sibh reidio a chur. Tha linigeadhTha aite agus nam gabhaidhbagaichean eair 17a becoming difficult for them and shinty ability. comhartailinnleachd urri each.anns Thaan iomadachdeanamh na h-innealan sgradaidh uile ann troighean ceithir-cheamach (cu. to be away from business for As shinty fans from all aige agus tha iomadach rud air anment da dials).chearcal sgrudaidh (instm- ft.) de luchd. ’S ann fo urlar aite a week. The ‘wear and tear’ over the Highlands converge a chur ann airson a dheanamh Anns a’ cheud fhear tha nam bagaichean a tha a’chuibhle on the cattle, due to long on Glasgow this May 20 th, sabhailte. Theid e aig astar math an luathsmheadar ag innse an tha bharrachd air a cumail droving, is also a factor in Newtonmore, last year’s los- gun mhoran a thoirt as an einnsin astar aig am bi an car a’ dol ’san thaBho'n an t-einnsinis ann air 1798-c.c. a tharsainn air a the case for fewer sales. ing finalists, must be favour- thaagus na ruithidh cuibhleachan e gu math an crochadhreidh oir uair ann am miltean agus ann an chur anns a’ char tha a’ bhonaid With improved roads now ites to add another glorious air doigh hydrolastic. kilometres. Anns an fhear eile leathan agus goirid agus tha e connecting most townships chapter to their club history. Tha an stiall a tha a stigh fo’ ola,tha teasrudan an -aeinnsin dh’innseas agus forsan cos- na soirbh faighinn a dh’ionnsaigh an and the increase in the use of Inveraray, by comparison, gais peatrail. Tha cloc dealain ann einnsin. Tha am boesa gabhail floats and trailers to take have made only one appear- WHISKY SALES cuideachd, ag obair a bataraidh syncromesh)(gearbox) uile-shincriomeach agus le beagan (all-cos- stock to and from the sales, ance in the final since the Mr Gordon Campbell (C, a bhuineas dha fhein is faodaidh gais a bharrachd gheibh sibh the reduction of stances war, when Kilmallie defeated Moray and Nairn) has asked the bhitheassibh te eilea’ cheudfhaighinn te deiseil. an uair Tha a transmisean ag obair leis fhein. would not, it is felt, be a very them 4-1 in 1964 at Fort Chancellor of the Exchequer what soluis bheaga mu choinneamh an Tha na. breicichean (dioscaic- great hardship. William, whereas this is the washome the sales percentage of Scotch reduction whisky in fhir stiuiridh a dh’innseas dha mu hean annsanns a’chul)an toiseach, cho laidir drumaic- agus Badenoch team’s thirteenth the period August, 1966, to Feb- dheidhinn lasaidh (ignition), siola- is urrainn dhaibh a bhith. Airson appearance. ruary, 1967, inclusive, following chain na h-ola (oil filter) agus co nach teid na cuibhleachan cuil an HAMILTON Inveraray, however, were the imposition of the 10 per cent, adhiubh chumhachd tha na assoluis airde toisich aca. Thaaig greim tha comhla (valve) anns na responsible in the semi-final paredregular withsurcharge the similar in July, period com- in boesa mor airson mheatagan ann breicichean. BROS. for bringing to an end the the previous financial year; and agus da threidhe airson phair- leisLeigidh an Wolseley an t-einnsin 18/85 a 1798-c.c.dhol gu (NORTHERN) LTD. magnificent run of 45 games what was the resulting difference sealan. A bharrachd air seo tha comhartail aig 70 mile ’san uair without defeat of the present in revenue by the Exchequer. sibhtreidhe tarrainn luathainn a mach. a dh’fhaodas fhad ’s a bhitheas cuisean frea- HARBOUR ROAD, INVERNESS holders, Kyles Athletic. Any secretary,Mr Niall in MacDermot,a written reply, financial says: Gheibh sibh lamhan an teasair garrach. Cumaidh na cuibhlea- Telephone 30777 team who can do this in such “ Clearance of whisky from bond (heater) agus an rud a tha a’ h-chan uile toisich seorsa greimrathaid. math Tha airstiui- a an important tie cannot be during the period was down 8 cumail nan uinneagan gun fas readh raca agus pinnean (rack and lightly regarded. Indications per cent, compared with the cor- ceothach a stigh fo stiall nan pinion) anns a’ char seo agus are that this could well be a year,responding but because months of of the the high previous level ceanninnealan dhe’n sgrudaidh stiall agusgheibh aig gachsibh riaghailt hiodralach (hydraulic cup-final classic. of clearances earlier, I think this cearcail bheag airson aitheir asystem) leas annspairn airson a nachbhith leig oirbh sibh That Inverness should be percentage overstates the actual ghlan a leigeil a stigh. a’stiuireadh. the permanent venue for the fall in consumption. ’S e cuibhrigean leathair a tha A bharrachd air seo uile iha NEW VOLKSWAGENS Camanachd final is the view during“ The therevenue seven frommonths whisky was air na suidheachain agus faodaidh fream a’ chair seo air leth laidir. 1200, 1300, 1500 and Pick-up of most shinty enthusiasts. about £1 million more than during sibhhinn suidheachaina theid air aistoisich ma tha fhaig- am Seo agaibh a’ phris aige le This predominantly High- the corresponding months of the fear stiuiridh no am fear a tha £1,135.transmisean a’gabhail ag obaira stigh leis na fhein: cis. USED VEHICLES land sport could become a previous year.” 1965 Volkswagen 1200 De Luxe. considerable tourist attrac- OLD WARSHIP Colourinterior, beige,fitted seatwith covers, matching and tion and be made more taxed. £460. accessible to the majority of FOR NEW DUTY motoring satisfaction 1964 Vauxhall Victor de luxe, colour shinty followers if the High- Work is to start soon on the white with red roof, fitted land capital housed the buildingerection offor a Dundeenew headquarters Tay Divi- in disc brakes, spot lamps, new event. on, Royal Naval Reserve. tyres,order. £460.exceptional running Editor’s Note. — We would like The new building, designed by 1964 Mk. 2 M.G. Midget, coloui hear the enthusiasts’ views the Scottish headquarters of the dove grey. This car has been making Inverness the permanent Ministry of Public Building and carefuly used by one owner; home of the Camanachd final. We Works, will replace the present low mileage. £450. recollect that this was mooted headquartersUnicom, an oldhoused wooden in warshipH.M.S. 1963 VolkswagenColour grey with1200 redde intrior.luxe. for the National Mod last year, which was moved from Earl Grey £360. but the majority were in opposi- Dock during work on the new 1960 Austin A/40, colour green. TayThe Road building Bridge. will be sited at 1960 Renault£225. Dauphine de Luxe, Marine Parade on ground leased colour red, excellent running UNIQUE DOUBLE willfrom provideDundee officeHarbour accommoda- Trast. It 1958 Austincar; very A35. economical. Colour green, £135. ex- Gerald Grant, the top tion, classrooms and training faci- ceptionally clean and econ- scoring Beauly half forward lities connected with the work of omic! car. £135. has pulled off perhaps R.N.R. It will cater for about 400 unique sporting double. 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George’s Church, Charlotte Square, IngeniousMore space new than power-assisted you'd think possible.rack and Safer,pinion smoothersteering positionthe grandest in Edinburgh’sarchitectural com-New Hydrolastic ® suspension. Deep seated luxury and lavishly P. L. J. Town, will be preserved by the addsappointed up tointerior. a deeply Optional satisfying automatic motoring transmission. It all Ministry of Public Building and experience. ofWorks the duringbuilding the as reconstmction a repository Price £1040.7.4. inc. £195.7.4. P.T. Automatic HERON estimatedfor the public to cost records. £250,000, The work,plus transmissionBacked by BMC Service—Express, £94.12.11. extra Expert, inc. Everywhere. £17.12.11. P.T. LTD. will£70,000 begin for this furniture autumn, and appropri- fittings, CIVIL ENGINEERING CONTRACTORS bicentenaryately in the ofyear the thatNew marksTown. the FORT WILLIAM The adaptation of the former Macrae & Dick Ltd. allowSt George’s the Scottish Church Recordwill not Office only more room for storing the public Telephone Inverness 34422 shouldEditorial be sent: Offices, 92 Academyto which Street,all correspondence Inverness. Phone and advertisingINS 31226, matterExt. 6. records, which is badly needed, Branches at SRUTH — Printed by The Highland Herald Ltd., Inverness, and bur give the public more con- Nairn, Tain, Dingwall, Fort William, Thurso and Wick published by An Comunn Gaidhealach, Abertarff House, Inverness. Registervenient access House to asthem well in asthe here. Old