§ MR. BOTTOMLEYI beg to ask the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that silvered card-board imitations of British coins are being used in Metropolitan council schools for the purpose of teaching the children their respective monetary values, and that on one side of such cardboard coins, and immediately under the head of the Sovereign, are the words German make; and whether the teachers have been instructed to explain to the scholars the exact meaning and significance of what 1252 might otherwise appear to them a perplexing inscription upon British coinage.
§ MR. RUNCIMANThe hon. Member has been good enough to send me specimens of the cardboard coins to which his Question relates. I do not think any child who is aware of the Merchandise Marks Acts is likely to be perplexed by the inscription referred to.
§ MR. BOTTOMLEYIs it part of the Code that children should be acquainted with the provisions of the Merchandise Marks Act?
[No Answer was returned.]