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Show Decrease of Rural Population in England. A remarkable illustration of the decrease de-crease in rural population comes from the neighborhood of Tiverton. Only a few years . ago there were sixty-two children's names on the. books of Cove school; now there are only seventeen. In fact,, the attendance hag so seriously fallen off that the Tiverton education authority has decided to close the school and transfer the seventeen scholars to Bothami which Is three and a half miles nearer Tiverton. The children have to be conveyed to the new school every morning and brought back every night at the expense of the authority. This is cheaper than maintaining a school at .Cove for seventeen scholars, for the cost was E136 a year, which works out at 9-odd a child. London Standard. |