CAPTAIN MOOREasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, If he is aware that the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland have intimated their intention of closing the Gormanstown Model Agricultural School, county Tipperary, and disposing of their interest in the land and premises, thereby withdrawing the annual Government Grant to the school, and depriving that part of the county of the great advantages of agricultural education?
§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH,in reply, said, the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland had determined upon selling the farm connected with the school referred to by the hon. and gallant Member, for the 435 reason that it had proved a failure with regard to the purposes for which it was intended. Instruction in agriculture would still be given in the schools which had hitherto been connected with the farm, and in other schools throughout the country generally.