§ MR. SLOANTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland what was the average attendance of pupils at each of the Protestant infant schools in Ballymena for the month of June last; and if he can say what surplus accommodation, allowing ten square feet per pupil, existed in each of them, and for the eighty-one infants who were during that period on the rolls of the Waveney Applicant School.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) The average attendance was: at Guy's Infants' School, 147; at Ballymoney Street Infants', thirty. Allowing ten square feet of floor space per pupil, there is accom- 38 modation in Guy's Infants' for 139 pupils and in Ballymoney Street Infants' for thirty-three pupils. There was, accordingly, no surplus accommodation in these schools in the month of June on this basis, but the Commissioners have hitherto only required accommodation at the rate of eight square feet per pupil. There are, however, in Ballymena three other national schools for girls, with Protestant mistresses, which have accommodation, at ten square feet per pupil, for 104 pupils more than were in average attendance in the month of June, and at which infant pupils can attend.