§ Mr. STANTONasked the President of the Board of Education if he will consider and recommend the appointment of swimming instructors at all our national schools, and take steps to secure that local authorities shall provide suitable bathing accommodation?
§ Mr. FISHERThe local education authorities are, I believe, fully alive to the desirability of providing instruction in swimming for children attending the public elementary schools and have made considerable progress in the matter, which will no doubt be facilitated by Section 17 of the Education Act, 1918. I do not, however, see my way to make the provision of such instruction or of the necessary bathing accommodation obligatory in all public elementary schools, which number over 21,000.