HC Deb 11 April 1905 vol 144 cc1251-3
MR. SLOAN

To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will state what steps have been taken towards the rebuilding of Guy's National Schools, Ballymena; if the Commissioners are satisfied that an

state what available accommodation exists in these schools, allowing ten square feet per pupil.

(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) When the Board's chief inspector visited the Waveney applicant school, Ballymena, in December last, he found 149 pupils on rolls, 91 of whom were under eight years of age. The chief inspector reported that of the pupil a on rolls only 33, all infants, had not been at school before, and that the remaining 116 had been withdrawn from the following school—

Infants, and Harryville Girls National Schools. An allowance of nine square feet for each pupil in attendance is considered sufficient in infants' schools.

eligible site has been procured by the governors of Guy's School; and have they approved of it.

(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) A grant towards the rebuilding has been provisionally sanctioned, and the site has been favourably reported on by the Board of Works, but the acceptance of the site will not be decided on until plans and specifications have been received and considered.