London, May 28.
'The House of Commons' Jost night passed the Education Bill, voting on the third reading being 256 to 128.
The Minister of Education, Mr. Oliver "Stanley, estimated that the average school-leaving age would be. raised to fourteen years nine months and assured the House that local auth: orities would be encouraged Provide senior schools on the basis That 100 per cent. of the children would stay at school till the age of Afteen, He and several other speakers welcomed the settlement of religious denominational difficulties contained the measure, The BIll will come Into operation in 1939—Wireless through Reuter.
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