§ MR. YOXALL (Nottingham, W.)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has now received information as to the condition of school buildings and teachers' dwellings in Jamaica, as affected by the recent earthquake; what steps the Government have taken to enable the schools to be reopened; and whether notices have been 1779 served upon teachers that their pay was to be stopped in cases where it had not been practicable to reopen the schools, and in other cases for school inspections to go on though the conditions relating to the schools owing to the earthquake made that unwise and in some cases impracticable.
§ (Answered by Mr. Churchill.) The Secretary of State has not yet received the information for which he has asked the Governor of Jamaica, as promised in the reply made by the Under-Secretary of State to the hon. Member of the 6th instant.†