§ COLONEL EYRE (Lincolnshire, Gainsborough)asked the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education. Whether he is aware that, on the 2nd of this month, at Stanhope Street Board School, Arthur Bailey, aged 10 years, of 6, Little Pancras Street, Tottenham Court Road, and Gabriel Jones, aged 10 years, of 29, Drummond Street, Euston Square, were in school between the hours of 10 a.m. and noon, having had no food since noon the previous day; and, whether he could arrange with the School Board Authorities that these cases might be brought under the immediate notice of the Boards of Guardians in the event of there being no local charity by which they might be relieved?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT (Sir WILLIAM HART DYKE) (Kent, Dartford)I believe the facts as stated in the first paragraph of the Question to be correct. How cases of this kind should be dealt with involves a question of policy; but I have been glad to bring ray hon. and gallant Friend's suggestion under the notice of the School Board Authorities.