§ SIR F. S. POWELLI beg to ask the Vice President, of the Committee of Council on Education whether he intends to insist on the immediate construction, at a time of severe depression of the local trade, of a new building for the infant school at the national school at Ulverston, Lancashire, where the school has obtained the highest grant for the last four years?
§ MR. ACLANDHer Majesty's Inspector reported last January that the hall used as an infants' school was quite unsuited for its purpose, besides having no proper class-room or cloak-room, and added that the managers were quite prepared to acquiesce in its condemnation. The managers were informed that the annual grant to the infants' school, after that due on 31st December next, would be conditional on satisfactory progress being made towards providing suitable premises. Plans have now been submitted and approved for a new infants' school, and the hon. Baronet will observe that the managers have still nearly a year and a-half before them in which to make satisfactory progress towards the building. I do not think that there is unreasonable pressure in this case.