§ MR. FRANCIS STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye)asked the Vice-President of the Committee of the Council on Education whether he is aware that on Friday, the 29th of March, the children had to be turned out of Haughley schoolroom in consequence of a Vestry meeting having adjourned from the Vestry to the schoolroom in the morning, although the room would have been at the disposal of the meeting in the evening; and whether the attendances of the children on that day were cancelled owing to their being sent home.
§ MR. HERBERT GARDNER (Essex, Saffron Walden)also asked whether the School at Haughley was in the receipt of a Parliamentary grant, and by whose authority the schoolroom was used for the purposes of a Vestry meeting during school hours?
§ *SIR W. HART DYKEI am informed that on the occasion in question the children were merely moved into an adjoining room and that their attendances were not cancelled. The school at Haughley is in receipt of a Parliamentary grant, and I think it would have been better if the trustees had not sanctioned the use of the room in the way described during school hours.
§ MR. F. S. STEVENSONIs it the fact that 64 children were huddled together in a small room in consequence of the adjournment? Will the right hon. Gentleman make an inquiry into the whole circumstances of the case?
§ *SIR W. HART DYKEI have not heard that the children were huddled together in a small room, but I believe they were put into an adjoining room, where they were properly taught.