Mr. J. JONESasked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that the London County Council obtained Parliamentary powers in 1914 to secure an option on a site for a school in substitution for the Gideon Road elementary school, Battersea, and that last year the London County Council were seeking an extension of the option; and whether, having regard to the congestion in the Gideon Road school, he will take steps to secure that site on which the London County Council have an option may be made available for the purposes of a school?
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§ Mr. FISHERThe powers conferred on the London County Council by the Education Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (London) Act, 1915, of acquiring the site in question under the provisions of the Lands Clauses Acts have been extended by an Order of the Board of the 24th January last until the 28th July next.