Clause 1. — (Amendment of s. 19 of Education Act, 1921.)

Part of EDUCATION (NECESSITY OF SCHOOLS) BILL [Lords.] – in the House of Commons at on 27 June 1933.

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Photo of Sir Richard Wells Sir Richard Wells , Bedford

I should like to support the hon. Member for Windsor (Mr. A. Somerville). I have several villages in my constituency where the schools have already been closed, and the effect has been that the villages are becoming smaller. People prefer to go to the larger villages where the schools exist, so that the larger villages have increased in size while the smaller rural villages will gradually disappear if this process goes on.