§ DR. LUSHsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State? for the Home Department, Whether, in the case of juvenile offenders sent under the Act 17 & 18 Vic, c. 86, to certified Reformatory Schools, care is taken to afford instruction in handicraft trades, or whether in any such certified Reformatory Schools employment is limited to field labour?
MR. BRUCEreplied that, as a rule, a certain number of the boys were taught handicrafts, and he was not aware that in any schools the instruction was limited to field labour. Field labour, however, did occupy the chief attention, because it was felt that for many of the boys it would be an advantage that they should emigrate to the colonies, where, of course, field labour would be of the greatest service to them.