§ SIR CHARLES CAMERON (Glasgow, Bridgeton)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether his attention has been called to a statement made at the last meeting of he Lochgilphead and Ardrishaig School Board to the effect that a girl named Blue had been incapacitated front attending school by the consequences of corporal punishment administered to her by the assistant teacher, and that about a year ago she had been punished by the same teacher so severely that she had been seriously ill for three months; and whether the Procurator Fiscal has made any investigation into the facts of the case?
§ *THE LORD ADVOCATEMy attention had not been called to the statement referred to. No information was in possession of the Education Department, and no information had been given to the Procurator Fiscal. The result of inquiry made by the Procurator Fiscal since the Question was put on the Paper leads me to the conclusion that the statement is without foundation, and that the authors of it failed to exercise ordinary care in testing its accuracy.