§ Mr. KINGasked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware of the use made by the education authority of Munich of the municipal tramway service, whereby special trams are run to take children to school and bring them home, thus relieving districts with overcrowded schools and filling the schools in uncongested districts, also permitting easy access of children to special schools and central institutions for instruction; and whether he will recommend this use of tramways and other means of conveyance to local education authorities in this country, which maintain overcrowded schools in some parts of their areas and schools with many empty places in others.
§ Mr. J. A. PEASEI have not previously had my attention called to the special use of the tramway service in Munich, but the suggestion that the local education authorities should use the tramway service for the purpose of relieving schools in congested districts has been made occasionally. The hon. Member will find some discussion of the suggestion and of the difficulties in the way of its general adoption in the Report of the Departmental Committee on School Playgrounds [Cd. 6463 of 1912], pages 40, 142, 150, and 153.