§ MR. SNAPE (Lancashire, S.E., Heywood)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether his attention has been drawn to the deficiency of provision for elementary education at Horwich, Lancashire, such deficiency having been occasioned by the rapid growth of population in the township; and whether he will take steps to supply the deficiency through the instrumentality of a School Board?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Mr. ACLAND,) York, W.R., RotherhamThe Department were informed some time ago that the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (whose locomotive works have, I understand, been the main cause of the rapid growth of the population in Horwich) were about to prepare plans for providing about 600 additional school places. The case will receive the best attention of the Department. If the deficiency is not met within a reasonable time by voluntary provision, it will become their duty to have it supplied by means of a School Board.