Major NEWMANasked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in view of the high cost of living and the consequent difficulty experienced by parents of small incomes to pay the necessary educational expenses of their children, he can see his way to grant railway passes to children going to and from their schools by railway at the pre-war rate of pay?
§ Mr. PARKERIt is regretted that it has not been found practicable to exempt school-children from the increases that have been made in railway fares, but season tickets are issued to day scholars at half the present rates.