Mr. HANCOCKasked the President of the Board of Education if he will give the number of voluntary schools that were closed during the years 1920, 1921 and 1922, respectively, and the heads or denominations of such schools?
§ Mr. EDWARD WOODThe figures are as follow:
of sea fish of British taking landed in the United Kingdom in the years 1921 and 1922:
1797W
Wet Fish. Shell Fish. cwts. £ £ 1921 … 16,851,307 21,269,669 711,460 1922 … 18,041,600* 18,014,244* 608,183* * Complete information was not received respecting fish landed in Ireland in 1922 and the figures are consequently defective to that extent. The imports into the United Kingdom, during the same years, of fresh or frozen fish, not of British taking (including fresh shell fish), were as follows:
The great bulk of the fish exported from the United Kingdom consisted of cured or salted fish and it is not possible to state separately the quantities or values
cwts. £ 1921 … 1,610,997 2,497,342 1922 … 1,730,752 2,210,384
— 1921. 1922. cwts. £ cwts. £ Fresh fish of all sorts (including shell fish). 481,606 556,010 484,047 565,105 Cured or salted herrings (canned or not canned): Consigned to Russia 149,761 94,510 92,135 51,948 Consigned to Germany 2,530,256 1,798,352 1,329,765 797,094 Consigned to other countries 2,147,200 2,431,456 1,917,183 1,704,689 Cured or salted fish (other than herrings) 457,606 1,191,420 530,742 1,227,681 Total fish of all kinds 5,766,429 6,071,748 4,353,872 4,346,517