§ Mr. STANTONasked the Minister of Transport if he will consider the possibility of reconsidering in the national interest the prices of season tickets upon the railways to travelling students; if he is aware that the proposed increase of 100 per cent. will make it impossible for many able, deserving, but poor students to continue their studies, and that this is doing much to discourage students at the Treforest School of Mines in South Wales, and that many students will have to abandon their educational careers; and if he will therefore endeavour to remove this handicap to the poor student by reverting to the old system of prices?
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§ Sir E. GEDDESSeason tickets are issued at half rate to students travelling to and from schools or colleges up to 18 years of age in the case of non-wage earners, and up to 16 in the case of wage-earners. This is now the uniform practice throughout the country, and I regret that I can hold out no hope of any further concession.