§ MR. BOLANDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that, although various centres for hand and eye training classes have been formed in different parts of Ireland, it is impossible for teachers in remote districts to attend such classes, which in many cases are only held on alternate Saturdays; and seeing that some teachers who desire to attend the class at Dunmanway, county Cork, are more than forty miles distant from Bantry, the nearest railway station, and that a further railway journey of twenty miles would have to be undertaken, whether he will arrange for the holding of a special training class of a few weeks duration during the months of September or October conducted by the head organiser in Dublin for the purpose of imparting the necessary instruction.
§ MR. WYNDHAMIn the remoter parts of the country there are many schools situated at an inconvenient distance from the centres at which hand and eye training classes have been formed. Every effort will be made to reach as many as possible of these schools when selecting centres for the classes that are yet to be formed. Owing to his present engagements it would not be possible for the head organiser to conduct in Dublin, during the months of September and October, a special class such as is suggested, even if it were considered desirable that he should do so.