§ MR. MACFARLANE (Argyll)I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland if he is aware that a school in the district of Uisken, Bunessan, Mull, which has been established for 100 years, and has accommodated the children of 27 families, has been removed by the School Board, and their children, to the number of 29, are, in consequence, compelled to travel three or four miles to school; and, if he will cause inquiry to be made, and if possible, retain the school in the place it has occupied for so long a period?
§ THE SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND (SIR G. TREVELYAN,) Glasgow, BridgetonThe school referred to by the hon. Member is, I presume, a room in which a few scholars were taught at Ardcheraig. The School Board informed the Department in February that the room was condemned by the Sanitary Authority, and that they proposed, therefore, to discontinue its use, and that the children could attend the Bunessan Public School. No representation to the contrary has been made to the Department.
§ MR. MACFARLANEHas not the school been established over 100 years?
§ SIR G. TREVELYANI cannot say.