§ MR. SUMMERBELLI beg to ask the President of the Board of Education if he is yet in a position to report the result of his inquiries as to the teaching of rifle shooting at Hal ley's Field Upper Standard School, Hartlepool.
§ MR. McKENNAI have made inquiries as to the incidents to which my hon. friend refers. I find that targets have been exhibited in the corridor of the school, but not in the class rooms. So far as can be ascertained, no instruction in rifle-shooting or sighting has been given in school hours and no boy has ever been reprimanded in school for being absent from such instruction. My hon. friend is doubtless aware that the use to which the school premises may be put out of school hours, rests not with the Board of Education, but with the local education authority.
§ MR. SUMMERBELLIs it not the fact that the inspector only made inquiries of the schoolmaster who was responsible for allowing the targets to be placed there?
§ MR. McKENNAI will inquire as to that.