§ Colonel ENGLANDasked the Present of the Board of Education whether, in view of the difficulty which has arisen with regard to fixing the school holidays at Whitefield, Lancashire, he will suggest to the local authorities the need for endeavouring to obtain the opinion of the parents themselves as to whether the holidays should all be given as a whole in August or whether they should be divided up so that the schools will be closed in the one week in July during-which there is the local works' holiday, the subsequent three weeks being given at the usual period?
§ Loud E. PERCYThe matter is one which falls within the discretion of the local education authority who can, I am sure, be relied upon to give sympathetic consideration to the wishes of all concerned without my intervention.