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Nevertheless, there is enough opposition—quite sincere, we hasten to add—to

the School Attendance Bill to Make the outcome of any trial of strength quite uncertain. It is believed that Sir Charles Trevelyan offered to pay as much as three quarters of the amount to be spent by the non-provided schools on new buildings. It is certain that without financial help the non-provided schools will not have nearly enough buildings for their pupils when the school age is raised. One report says that Sir Charles, yielding to the storm, reduced his offer by proposing merely to lend the greater part of the money. That was the situation when Mr. Scurr moved an amend- ment on Wednesday that the Bill should not come into operation until financial provision had been made in a separate Bill for the non-provided schools.

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