§ 67. Mr. J. Johnsonasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies why the elementary education plan of Somaliland Protectorate for the 1959–60 academic year has been very much reduced.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydBy July of this year the number of elementary schools in the Protectorate will have increased from 16 in 1956 to 34, involving a maximum of 83 classes. A further expansion of elementary education for the academic year 1959–60 is not thought practicable partly owing to the need to keep in balance the expansion of intermediate and elementary education and 23W partly owing to doubts about the avail ability of children to fill additional elementary schools.