§ MR. MADDISON (Sheffield, Brightside)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, whether, under the rules of the National School at Bentley, near Farnham, Hampshire, the girls were required to sweep out the schoolroom for a week together in turn, and that it was also a rule of the school that, if they wished to avoid this duty, they have to pay twopence each in order to be exempted therefrom; whether such rules are still in force, and, if not, when they were withdrawn; and whether this is the only public elementary school available for the children of Bentley?
§ THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION (Sir J. GORST,) Cambridge UniversityThe Committee of Council have no information as to the first two paragraphs. The answer to the third paragraph is in the affirmative.